Category Archives: Twitter

Poll: What do you do when someone Tweets a pirated version of your product?

I work for a software company, and naturally we’re concerned about piracy. Our internal research indicates that whenever the most recent version of our product is successfully cracked we end up losing roughly up to 10% of our revenue until we thwart the crack or release a new version.
So I have a small dilemma when [...]

How to Syndicate del.icio.us Favorites to Twitter

Bloggers like you and me all want to build a following on Twitter for the same reason that we want more RSS subscribers for our blogs – we want to provide value to our audience and engage them with some combination of information and entertainment.
One easy form of providing this value / engagement is to [...]

TwittAds: A Company that Does Not Understand Advertising

TechCrunch basically made the point yesterday: TwittAds is a bad idea. I wanted to add my two cents from a the perspective of someone who spends a lot of time asking himself “would my company want to buy ads on this site?”
The point of TwittAds is thus: put advertising on your personal Twitter page and [...]

Drinking the Twitter Kool-Aid

Not a week goes by when I don’t read a post about Twitter. It’s a technology that’s soaked the panties of many web 2.0 aficionados – that’s probably the most succinct, crude way to put it.
I’ve been pretty hesitant to try it out, namely because I was dubious when I heard people shouting praise from [...]