Something New, Something Blue: Today Twitter Has a New Homepage
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Posted in Rebecca Roebuck, Social Media, Twitter | No Comments » 
New visitors to Twitter.com will now see a brand new front page! The new page provides some brief explanation of what Twitter does – “Share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world.” The new page also offers the option to search Twitter first to “see what people are saying about” a topic. Another change to the homepage is the trending topic highlights. Hot topics on Twitter are shown by the minute, day and week. One final change is the drop of the infamous “What are you doing?” in exchange for the invitation to “Join the conversation” by signing up on Twitter.
Biz explains the change on the official Twitter blog:
Helping people access Twitter in more relevant and useful ways upon
first introduction lowers the barrier to accessing the value Twitter
has to offer and presents the service more consistently with how it has
evolved.
To compare, the old Twitter front page looked like this:
Which do you like more?
Webbed Webinar: Webbed Marketing Approved Twitter Tools and Applications
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 Posted in Rebecca Roebuck, Twitter, Webinar | No Comments »
So we have convinced you to start using Twitter. Now, learn how to use it like a pro. We will share some of our favorite platforms, tips, tricks and add-ons that will help you fit Twitter into your already busy schedule. Can’t decide between TweetDeck, Twhirl, TwitterFox and Twitterrific? See our list of ten great twitter tools and applications, how to get the most out of them, why we use them and how they will improve your Twitter experience.
Tags: friend or follow, mr tweet, rebecca roebuck, social media, tools, tweetbeep, TweetDeck, tweetstats, twellow, Twitpic, twitter, twitter grader, twitter search, twtpoll, webbed markeitng
Who are the local twitter rockstars? Your decision is powered by Google Docs
Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Google, Rebecca Roebuck, Twitter | No Comments »
There has been talk about who the most popular, important, influential or rockstaresque people are on twitter. Some say the most important tweeple are those with the most followers, others say it is those with the most interesting tweets and still others say it is more about who they are off twitter that makes them important. One thing for sure is that everyone has their own opinions on who receives the title of twitter elite, or twitterati.
To help solve the debate, local tweeter Jamie Grove (@hownottowrite) is asking the twitterverse who they think their local rockstars are. Anyone can submit their opinions and explain their selection.
Jamie says:
Twitterati Local – Who are your *local* Rockstars?
If you got here from a retweet, I'm @hownottowrite and I decided to create this poll in response to the Forbes article on Twitter "power elites" (see this: http://tinyurl.com/forbes-twitter).
Forbes did a swell job rounding up the people with the most followers, people
who influence twitter on a broad scale… But what about the people who
rock the local Twitterati scene? What about the people who get folks
out to the latest gallery opening or hook up parents with some special
event? Or spread the local news?
Who are *your* local Twitterati? And why do they rock?
I'll post the results in a few days and send out a tweet (naturally).
This seems like a fair way to decide who really is the twitter elite. Let the people decide!
The most interesting thing I noticed about this effort is that Jamie is using Google Docs to gather and share this information. Google recently added a form option to Google Docs that allows users to setup a feedback form, embed it
on any website and collect and share data easily. When someone fills out the form, their responses are automatically timestamped and collected in a Google spreadsheet. Just like any Google document, the forms can be shared with others to view at their own convenience. This makes collecting and sharing feedback incredibly easy! The information can even be published as a web page to share with the world.
At Webbed Marketing, we are using Google Docs Forms to gather entries to our Google Hates My Website SEO Makeover Contest and to collect information from people interested in Webbed Marketing University courses.
So what are you waiting for?! Start asking your questions right now!
p.s. If you haven't already, you will need to set up a Google Account and visit https://docs.google.com. Then click "New" and scroll down to "Form."
- from the Desktop of Rebecca Roebuck
Tags: form, google docs, spreadsheet, twitter, twitter elite, twitterati
First picture of plane crash posted from a Twitter user
Thursday, January 15th, 2009 Posted in Rebecca Roebuck, Social Media, Twitter | No Comments »
Like many, I first heard about the US Airways plane crash on Twitter.
Twitter user, Janis Krums, was the first to post a live photo from the US Airways plane that crashed into the Hudson River this afternoon.
Krums is from Sarasota, FL and was leaving New York on a ferry that was one of the first on the scene to rescue passengers.
Krums photo on twitpic has generated so much traffic that the page (or entire site) is currently slow and unvisitable.
Krums has become a photojournalist hero and his followers have exploded from around 200 to nearly 1,000 in less than an hour.
According to CNN the plane ran into a flock of birds that took out both engines and the pilot made an emergency landing in the Hudson River. Passengers were rescued immediately and there appear to be no injuries.
Twitter to the rescue..
- From the Desktop of Rebecca Roebuck
Tags: hudson, janis krums, new york, plane crash, river, twitter
