May/090
Wasting time on twitter
The beauty, and addictability of twitter lies in it's incredibly diverse number of ways to waste your time. It makes the facebook addictions of a year ago seem like very soft drugs. In that context, #spymaster is crack. Here's what tech-crunch has to say about the game.
Spy Vs. Spy: The Spymaster Backlash Begins And Twitter Needs To Fix It
Spymaster, the Twitter-based game that we covered last night, is spreading like crazy today. It’s been a trending topic on Twitter throughout the day, even ahead of the hype around Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing. Because of this popularity though, some Twitter users are getting inundated with tweets from the service in their streams. It’s not really spam, because it’s their friends doing it, but to some, it’s very annoying. Former Digg lead architect, Joe Stump, is particularly pissed off.
I think that's a bit snotty myself. It's a very clever little game. Addictive, fun, with great graphics. It's a fun way to spend a couple of hours building up followers on twitter.
Twitter is ALL about how many followers you have. Check out this site which offers to buy twitter accounts based on the number and quality of followers you have tweetvalue.com. Stephenfry's account is apparantly worth $42,542.
May/090
Should you update your facebook status with twitter tweets?
Let's say you have both an active twitter account and an active facebook account. Coming up with pithy little updates to keep yourself at the top of people's lists is quite fun, but you've probably come across those annoying types who blog about how their coffee tastes. We wouldn't want to be one of thosewould we?
So when you've come up with something so brilliantly amusing that you're happy to share, do you tweet it to your twitter followers? Yes Definately. Should you also send that same update to facebook? What if it's a link to a nice little special offer you're doing on one of your business's products?
Sometimes Yes. Sometimes No.
Sometimes those tweets will be relavant to your facebook friends, but often they won't. If you're brave, you could get a lot of people looking at your website. If you annoy people, then you've ruined that marketing opportiunity for a while, so use it sparingly.
Here's how to do it. First use this fantastic piece or Adobe AIR software software which you get from here: www.tweetdeck.com . When you are tweeting, checking the facebook option on the update box will send tweets to both accounts at the same time. Follow @tweetdeck on twitter to help develop the software.
It depends how often you tweet, how many followers you tweet to and how much you use facebook as to whether you could benefit from this. Try tweeting a link to 200 followers and updating your 200 friend facebook profile at the same time. If you track how many people clicked your link from both those sources what do you find?