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Mar 17

Ten Reasons I Didn’t Follow You Back on Twitter

tweetcomic 160x300 Ten Reasons I Didnt Follow You Back on TwitterWhenever I get a new Twitter follower, I always check them out. I don’t automatically follow everyone who follows me. I save up my e-mail notifications and make a few moments to look at them when I’m in between other tasks or need a break. I look at their most recent tweets, maybe check out their blog, see if I want to network with them in another way or add them to a list.

So if I don’t follow someone back, it’s because I’ve determined that doing so would not add any value to my Twitter experience (or they are clearly spam). Here are the most common reasons I don’t follow my followers:

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Mar 02

Thoughts on Social Media For Writers

By Karen Eisenbraun

A while ago, I had my Twitter profile (@HaveANamaste) on my computer screen at my “day job,” and one of my coworkers spied it.

“You have a Twitter?” he asked in a tone that conveyed both disgust and amusement.
“Of course,” I told him. “I’m a freelancer.”old people social media 300x266 Thoughts on Social Media For Writers“So? Why do you need a Twitter?” Given that this is someone who spends little time in front of a computer outside of work and refuses to join Facebook, it isn’t surprising that he would fail to see the importance of social media for someone who is, at least part-time, self employed. But what amazes me is when this attitude persists among my freelancing colleagues. ( Read more )

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Aug 19

10 Coolest Photo Sharing Websites

Editor note: We also recommend Momentile, a website where you are encouraged to publish one photo every day, for 1 year.

Taking the picture is just part of the fun. After you have snapped that excellent shot, you might want to share it with your friends and worldwide family. Here is a list of great photo sharing sites.

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May 17

The Twitter Hack: How You Could Have Gotten Celebrity Followers

By Eric Rea

Interested in getting celebrity followers? Thanks to the celebrity Twitter hack, that was an absolute possibility not too long ago. A glitch in the Twitter platform was discovered which allowed for any Twitter user to make it look like celebrities were their own fans who followed their feeds. This means that the average Twitter user could have thought up anyone on the social networking site and added them as their followers. This unconventional method stirred up a lot of frustration throughout the whole site – especially because celebrities who had been solicited as followers were really getting the Tweets from the hackers’ accounts.

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May 07

Socialnomics Revises Their Video on Social Media Statistics

I’m a pretty big fan of Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business Socialnomics Revises Their Video on Social Media Statistics by Erik Qualman. The first video he released on YouTube that highlighted some statistics about social was used in some presentations of mine and now has been updated to relate more recent statistics.

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