Karen bought some little iPod speakers earlier today. To test them out I plugged them into the laptop quickly and popped on some nice heavy Drum & Bass:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_playlists&search_query=andy+c+nightlife&uni=1
Karen didn’t like that, (she’s been campaigning to get Nightlife removed from the CD changer in the car for weeks,) and asked could I try them with some [...]
Entries Tagged as 'twitter'
The Awesome Ubiquity of Twitter
May 20th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: twitter · twitter etiquette
Twitter: Create “Tweet This” links and icons quickly
April 16th, 2009 No Comments
I just built a quick “Tweet This Generator” for Twitter users who have blogs (which is a lot!)
Its self-explanatory and couldn’t, I think, be any easier to use.
Its hardly rocket science, but if you want a “Tweet This” button or link to paste onto your site quickly, this does the job:
http://www.alexpoole.name/php_stuff/tweet-this-generator.php
If you use it and [...]
Tags: lead generation · twitter · viral marketing
Twitter - How many of my followers also follow…
April 4th, 2009 No Comments
If you’ve never asked yourself this question: “how many of my followers also follow @xyz” then you might be surprised by some of the answers. Thing is, if you’re regularly re-tweeting some of the bigger twitter users, you might not realise that pretty much all of your followers already get to see their tweets. So [...]
Tags: retweet · twitter · twitter etiquette
Want people to Tweet for you virally? Don’t ask for their password.
March 29th, 2009 1 Comment
More and more companies are catching on to the massive exposure that its possible to get through Twitter.
Some are using “bribes” to get people talking about their products and services.
Usually they use software like Viral Tweets to accomplish this.
Fine enough, but I don’t want to be handing over my Twitter password to all and sundry. [...]
Tags: bfm · butterfly marketing · mike filsaime · pdf · php · sales letter · twitter · viral marketing
Twitter - This Newbie’s (twoobie’s?) First Week “On the Tweet”
February 19th, 2009 1 Comment
I’ve been hearing about Twitter for some time. I knew many marketers - who are my potential customers for web development - used it. However When BBC Radio 1 DJ @CHRISDJMOYLES and thus my wife @karenlpoole started evangelising Twitter, I decided it was time to put off the inevitable no longer, and join.
Twitter allows you [...]
Tags: twitter · twitter background · twitter etiquette · twitter guide
View People’s Twitter Backgrounds in Full
February 12th, 2009 No Comments
I wasn’t able to see some people’s Twitter backgrounds properly, because I’m uusing a laptop with a fairly small screen.
This was annoying me so I wrote a little script to enable me to view people’s Twitter backgrounds in full without having to go in, view source, copy & paste and generally f***y around.
Here it is:
http://www.alexpoole.name/php_stuff/twitterbg.php
If [...]
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