For those of you who’re all over the place with social media and need to integrate it all in one place, here’s a neat solution – A Chrome extension. Integrate all your Facebook status update and Twitter tweets back on to Google Plus. Sounds cool right? What it does is pulls all your Facebook status update messages and tweets to one single stream on Google Plus. What I’d really like… Continue reading

So there’s this new guy who just followed you and you want to check if he’s following you back, what do you do? Twitter by default does not give you any clue, so you got to check with third party tools. The problem with using third party tools is that they ask you for authorization or passwords – which I’m not very comfortable with. Instead, I use those tools that… Continue reading

So, you’re new on Twitter and is looking for options to grow your follower number. Everybody else you know seems to have many followers already.How did they do it ? Here are a few tips that might help.
How to get followers quickly on Twitter?
So you’re new and you needs followers quick. The quickest way to get followers on Twitter is to start following new people that you might… Continue reading

Last day I read this great article by Megan Berry, at Open Forum – Why increasing followers is not a Twitter strategy. Absolutely brilliant article ! As the headline suggests, Megan talks about how numbers can misguide you on Twitter and explains well about why “follower number” isn’t everything. “If your social media consultant or manager points first to your Twitter follower count when you ask how things are going… Continue reading

Twitter announced today that they’re launching Twitter Tales, and effort to highlight stories from users about how Twitter influenced them in their lives. A great effort to clean up Twitters shadowy image of “spam” that has grown in mentions recently, Twitter tales will be a series of stories where regular Twitter individuals would tell their story to the whole world. In the first episode, there are three stories. Life: @natashabadhwar… Continue reading

If you haven’t heard it yet, do a search on “Promoted tweets” on Twitter and you’ll see everything that you missed. Twitter is officially taking the plunge into its long awaited “business model”, probably this week and this might be big as we ever suspected it to be. How will Twitter handle the money, and are you going to be a part of it – is the big question now… Continue reading

You know the funny thing about jerks ? Its that, not a single guy you ask to will admit that he’s anything close to being a jerk, but he can show you ten guys around him, who’s one. I’m no different.

But the reality is that both you and me see a lot of them around, in real life mostly and on Twitter, even more frequently. The fact is… Continue reading

Lately, there have been an increased number of usage of hashtags on Tweets. I do not have any number/statistics to support this, but we’ve all seen it, haven’t we ? Tweets with lot of hashtags, sometimes even inappropriate and irrelevant placed just to add more re-tweet value by bots. As more and more bots/apps use content syndication from hashtags, the more hashtags you use, the more the probablity for your… Continue reading

One of the main problems with shortened URL’s on Twitter is the grey area of trust ability. Though many a times a re-tweeted URL can be safe and secure, there have been concerns where a shortened URL may lead you to a spammy website or an “unsuitable” website, especially in the cases of first tweet. And most of the times one cannot make out from the tweet itself as to… Continue reading

Hootsuite is getting better and better and better, with the new BarnOwl release, it just got awesome ! Don’t believe me ? Check out the new features.

1. Follower Management just got easier with Klout socre!
Now, you can manage all your followers right inside the dashboard. It shows all your followers and allows you to sort them based on Klout score, activity level etc. Very… Continue reading