Twitter on Sunday ran its first-ever TV spot during the broadcast of the 2012 Pocono 400 NASCAR race. The 16-second clip features NASCAR racer Brad Keselowski seated in his car and taking a picture of the scene with his iPhone. Keselowski, who came in 24th place during the race, is taking advantage of the iPhone’s capability to upload pictures directly to Twitter. The seven 15 second commercials ran during the telecast of Sunday's Pocono 400 Nascar race and were centred on the activity in and around the racetrack. Each ad carried an interesting tag line highlighting various Twitter features. One ad
Read MoreAmong the lessons for how to get trustworthy tweets: Gain followers and retweets, include URLs in your posts, have a profile picture, and fill out your bio with information related to topics you tweet about. The researchers surveyed more than 250 Twitter users to determine what factors do and don’t lend tweets credibility. Then they scored that group of factors on a scale of one to five, five being the highest. Here are the top 10 things that make tweets more trustworthy, along with their respective scores: Post was retweeted by someone you trust – 4.08 Author is a subject expert – 4.04 You follow
Read MoreKnowing where your Twitter followers are located can not only feed your curiosity, but it can also help you measure the success of your social campaigns. To do this, TweepsMap links to your Twitter account, analyzes your followers and provides a map or chart that shows where they’re located by country, state or city. For example, if your Twitter campaign is targeted toward Chicago residents, TweepsMap helps you see how many of your followers are actually located in Chicago. After authorizing the TweepsMap API, it generates a color-coded map with Twitter birds spread across it to show the number of followers
Read MoreWant a notification on your phone whenever someone you like Tweets or @mentions you? How about when someone marks your Tweet as a favorite or retweets one of your Tweets? If you've already added your phone to your account, you can now enable this feature in your account’s Mobile Settings. Twitter users that have enabled SMS notifications can get text updates when other users retweet them, follow them or favorite their content. - Turning on notifications for DMs and @replies/mentions - Turning on Activity notifications - Turning on notifications to receive Tweets from a specific person on your phone - Turning All Twitter
Read MoreDid you know you can send Tweets by text? Adding your phone to Twitter makes it easy to tweet from places where even WiFi and mobile web don't work! Follow the instructions below to add your phone to an account you’ve already set up on Twitter. Here are the steps - #1 Send a text to your Twitter code with the word START. Example for INDIA - India: 53000 (Bharti Airtel, Reliance, Videocon, and TATA DOCOMO customers) #2 Twitter will reply and ask you to sign up if you're new or reply with your username if you already have an account. #3 Send
Read MoreBrands are increasingly turning to Facebook both as a place to advertise and as a complementary platform by which to build their online presence — and begin conducting social commerce. There are a number of solutions, for example, that allow big and small operations alike to operate retail storefronts on Facebook, sell their wares, and, to a degree, manage their transactions. But how can one capitalize on other popular social network, Twitter. The “micro-blogging” platform has certainly become a vehicle for celebrities and brands looking to hawk their products, stir up brand awareness, and interact with their customers, so the
Read MoreYou may be following a lot of accounts on Twitter for business reasons, or get updated on top of the news and keep up with the tech world. But there are a few which I follow just for a laugh or because they Tweet interesting things. 140Facts is a site that is jam-packed with only interesting, funny, sarcastic, tickle bone, humor Tweets in text or image. Every entry here is a cool fact or interesting anecdote that is conveniently packaged as a 140 character Tweet, ready for you to pass and share on. 140facts will provide you with 12 facts a
Read MoreNow you can now easily link your personal Facebook account to your Twitter account, and publish your “public” status updates directly to Twitter. #1 Go to http://www.facebook.com/twitter #2 Choose your personal Facebook account and then click “Link to Twitter” #3 Choose which items you’d like to send to Twitter, of course they’ll have to be marked as “Public” for them to be shared.
Tweetsport, is a “360° real-time sports news service, available as online and as an app, which takes users to the heart of the action by mixing articles, videos, pictures and Tweets. The app is free to download from the Apple App store, but there’s a premium upgrade available for £0.69, which lets users filter by sport, search tweets and headlines and remove all adverts. Enjoy top tweets from all your favourites including David Haye, Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand and Andy Murray. Whether its the latest from Joey Barton or Tiger Woods, Lionel Messi or Luis Suarez its all
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