Aaron Lee aka @AskAaronLee is an average student with average grades, average looks but an extra-large social media addiction. Hear more of his opinions at askaaronlee.com. Many people don’t really know what Twitter looked like when they first launched. After seeing a tweet about how Facebook looked like during the early days, I have decided to find out the same for Twitter. Twitter in 2005 The picture below was taken from broken-tv and according to them, this was how Twitter looked like before the domain was bought over by its founders today. Twitter in ...
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E-commerce Is Coming To Facebook [VIDEO]
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Description: Fully integrated e-commerce is coming to Facebook. It would be powered by Payvment and launched at PayPal X Innovate 2009, November 3-4 2009 in San Francisco. Hurray to online retailers! A newly integrated e-commerce development, named Storefront (as seen in the video below) is coming to Facebook. With 300 million users, this new integration will be eyed by many retailers. It will have our familiar shopping cart system and several additional advantages. Advantages 1. Addiction: People are addicted to everything Facebook and they would similarly be addicted to this new online ...
Sep 26 2009
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What is #followfriday on Twitter?
Follow Friday, which is better known as #followfriday or #ff is a hashtag used on Twitter set to happen every FRIDAY (duh.. otherwise why is it called Follow Friday?). It was started by Micah Baldwin to encourage people to suggest great tweeple that they think others should follow as well. To make a hashtag on Twitter, you would need the # symbol. The symbol is recognised and tracked by Twitter search. Here is an example of a #followfriday History of #followfriday On a very fine day, Micah Baldwin was musing on how proud he ...
Aug 3 2009
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7 Reasons Why You Should Use Twitter
Most people do not pay Twitter much heed when they first heard about it. We can’t really blame them. I mean, what’s the big deal about micro-blogging on what you are doing 24 hours a day? It might be difficult for some to fathom the huge benefits Twitter has for users behind this simple idea. As for me, I have found several on my own: 1. Connections The first thing to do on Twitter is to find friends, duh. It keeps your friends updated on what you are up to at that moment. It keeps them ...
Aug 2 2009
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Top 10 Twitter Apps
If you search the exact words, "Top 10 Twitter applications" on Google, you'll find that there are many websites and blogs giving you their opinions on what they think should be the top 10 Twitter applications. What I did was to let my 30,000 odd followers choose the rightful top 10 Twitter applications. A simple question was posted on my Twitter: “What’s one Twitter application that you cannot live without?” Here are the top 10 applications recommended by the Tweeple themselves and not based on traffic to the Twitter applications’ websites: 1. Tweetdeck It is ...
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6 Types of Tweets That Get Retweeted
Have you ever posted tweets and wondered why they were not retweeted? Well, wonder no more now that you are here. Get your tweets noticed by knowing how to draw retweets (RTs). 1. Quotes My favorite way to get RTs is to post quotes from famous people such as Anthony Robbins, Brian Tracy, and other self-help gurus. These tweets are without a doubt the easiest to come up with and at the same time viral because they are likely to be appreciated. This is how I do it: "If you don't set goals for yourself, ...
Aug 10 2009
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Don’t See the Point of Twitter? New Homepage Might Help
Even after the recent hullabaloo about Twitter, it is still missing out on a significant number of potential users. Blame it on the core purpose of Twitter, which is to tell everyone what you are doing. Twitter was created as an easy-to-understand micro-blogging site but it seems like this is causing more confusion than intended. Most people who land on the site do not see the point of Twitter. They simply do not see the point of telling people what they are doing. And the homepage is definitely not helping ...
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