Create a Story using Social Media

Here I found an interesting site called Storify, which allows you to create stories using social media. Only with little bit of good presentation of the tweets, videos, images and descriptions.. you can create a wonderful story.

This site is very useful and easy to use. All you need to do is search the topic over different social media like twitter, facebook, youtube, flickr, google, web links and storify itself. Collect the information from them and drag it over a single page.
Add some description and some textual information for making the story more spicy... That's All! You've created an informative story.

Now, you can even embed the story over your blog post and tweet it out to your followers or share it over facebook... Do whatever you want to spread your story.


I really loved this Site... Nice concept for realtime story sharing!

Twitter is Not Allowing to Switch Old Twitter

Old Twitter is now old for me... Today, I switched to "New Twitter" for giving a try and again when i was switching back to "older version", It showed me an error like this..

403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.

Twitter started its process for destroying old twitter.... welcoming "New Twitter".

Tips: 
If you want to use Old Twitter for more period of time, then never switch to New Twitter. Keep on using the older version till the last date.

22 Common Twitter Acronyms used by Twitterers

As twitter’s tweet is limited to 140-characters. So, the users of twitter always try to reduce the number of characters from their tweet as possible. Many Twittterers wisely make the value use of Acronyms..

This Acronyms are the words formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name. So, it makes less use of words and easy to understand. Check some of the common Twitter Acronyms used by the twitterers…

Common Acronyms:

1. FWD = Forward.
2. TMB = Tweet Me Back.
3. RT = Retweet.
4. @ = Reply to [username].
5. IMO = In my Opinion.
6. IRL = In Real Life.
7. J/K = Just Kidding.
8. OMG = Oh My God.
9. FTL = For The Loss.
10. IRL = In Real Life.
11. FTF = Face to Face.
12. IMHO = In My Honest Opinion.
13. DM = Direct Message.
14. BTW : By The Way
15. FTW = For The Win.
16. PRT = Partial Retweet / Please Retweet.
17. OH = Overheard.
18. JV = Joint Venture.
19. LMK = Let Me Know.
20. YMMV = Your Mileage May Vary.
21. BR = Best Regards.
22. b/c = because.

Use these above Acronyms for Tweeting Easily…

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Some Common Problems faced by New Twitter Users

Quick Place to find Live Journalists on Twitter!

Grab the Breaking News more faster than news channels, direct from the Journalists  live on Twitter! You can see the RealTime tweets of the Journalists, you can even see the news tweeted out by the journalists of their respectively News Brand.

Very easy and search able with the brands to collect the latest news videos, podcast, links, photos and Text contents tweeted by the Journalists all around.

[ You can find it on Muckrack- "Discover what's happening right now in the world of journalism" ]

Some Common Problems faced by New Twitter Users

Twitter is the most popular site where many bloggers, company, celebrities and proffesionals are depend on. Huge ammount of  of money are daily spend by the rich twitterers to gain more popularity and followers, but what about those small tweeterers? Are they not able to gain followers?

Gaining Followers by the small tweeters is really a tough job and many users lead to spamming to gain their followers, as a result they are banned. There's some ways to gain followers....

1.  First, if you are a popular person or celebrity or you account is linked with a popular site or the account is a brand.
2. Secondly, if you are daily attempting reciprocal following- where users follow each other to retain their number of followers and in other word, the make friendship or deals with the other twitter users to follow each other.

Why they need followers?
Its known to everyone that Twitter is a place of daily active users, where users can promote their own sites article or sharing affiliate links to earn money (but sharing affiliate links is highly restricted) .


So, the above i was talking about the daily tweeters but what about the new twitters? 
I suggest them Some things to follow:

1. to have quality tweets and don't share boring links over their tweets.
2. Try to tweet the text contents maximum time, this gives a good impressions in front of the Tweeters and they follow you.
3. Whenever follows you, follow him back.
4. Don't follow the spam users.
5. Don't Use Twitter Auto-Follow Software or bulk follow software.
6. Try to chat through your Twitter Account with your friends- this will increase the amount of your tweets.
7. Don't tweet continously.
8. Don't Use automatic tweet updates from the RSS feed of you blog and try to put your blog's post link manually.
9. Be the first to share a link of interesting stuff over the twittter.
10. Always Retweet the intersting tweets of the popular tweeterers!

These above are the some important rules U should follows to reatain your powers over twitter and gain followers.

-Arijit

Twitter Power on your Email with Topify

Ever you controlled your twitter account with your email inbox? But a new site "Topify" has introduced a way to control your Twitter account through your email inbox itself. No need of Twitter Clients and Applications and even no need to visit the main site every time coz now its really easy to follow the users and chat with your twitter friends through Emails.

Make your Twitter Marketing easy and gain much followers easily!! Whenever any followers follows you, then you will be receiving a notification email showing who followed you. The email will consists of the Followers numbers, Following Numbers and the Last tweets of the User who followed you. And after going through the statistics and the popularity of the User, you can follow him back by just simply replying the mail.

You can even reply to the Direct Messages by just replying the email only!

Twitter was not so easy... Thanks to Topify for providing such a unique and helpful service to control Twitter easily from the Email inbox!

Tweets through Fax

We generally tweets through Computers and keep us online and updated 24/7 over the popular social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and whenever we are out of our computer reach, we generally use the Mobile for Tweeting by visiting mobile.twitter.com or other twitter mobile applications.

But there are still some twitterer addicted who uses their papers and pens to send out tweets on daily manner. All the thing is that they need to fax that page to the a particular number for updating their twitter account.

There is a lady who tweet through the the service called "Celery's Computerless Email System", they generally charge $8.98 per month and give its clients to tweet through fax and even send you the fax whenever you received an @replies from other twitter User.

As i was talking about the lady who send her tweets through fax with this service. Her Twitter profile is @dorothy_celery and he sometimes updates facebook using this service.
Check Out her Story:

Its quite strange to hear but it is truth! But it is the most costliest process of tweeting...

Things to keep you away from Twitter Spam

Many Twitter users are suffering from twitter spam, but they are thinking that they don't have anything to do... Since twitter came in force over internet, it was attacked by many such bad activities like Spam, Phishing, and others...

Twitter users are highly affected by such stuffs.. but resolve such things or to avoid such activities, you have the power to judge. The following i mentioned some ways in which you can protect yourself from spam.

@Spam: If you find a user, which is tweeting some suspecting tweets like useless advertisements, suspicious links, some digits like tweets and anything you find unusual... then you can report it spam to the Twitter by just putting an @spam over your tweet along with the the profile you are suspecting...

Tweet Fight with Chetan Bhagat gained around 27,000 Followers

India's popular novelist (Chetan Bhagat) had a Tweet Fight with the Twitterers all around. "The three Mistakes of My Life" is one of his popular book... So, now he can have a little change to "Four Mistakes". Two Days back, Chetan had a War over Twitter which resulted in the popular trend of Twitter Home Page.

Twitter tried its best to spread Awareness of AIDS among the Twitter Users

AIDS is the most serious and wide-spread diseases the whole world is facing. And we all know that it is incurable but can be prevented by spreading awareness among the people all around the world. It is widely spread in the countries of Africa, India, China, etc...


Yesterday (1st December), Twitter gave its maximum efforts to spread the awareness of AIDS among the users all around the web. It changed its Home Page to Red for showing its awareness against AIDS. Even the Tweets with the key "AIDS" or "WORLD AIDS DAY" or the tag with "#red" was highlighted with red color.

My Highlighted tweet with red for AIDS awareness

They too launched an Official twitter profile, named @joinred for spreading AIDS awareness in Africa.

Jai Ho! is on the Top Ten Twitter Phrases of 2009

The release of the yearly Top ten Twitter Phrase tracked by the The Global Language Monitor. According to the release, the phrase "Jai Ho!" is the top ten phrase of the year, even it is not an English word. Its really strange to see a Hindi Phrase in between all the English Phrase. It was given the 8th position in the "Top Phrases of 2009".


This phrase is the popular phrase used in the movie "Slum Dog Millionaire" and the meaning of this phrase is the "joy or accomplishment"... I am really feeling proud after seeing my language term in between all the English phrase.

Another attractive word i found over the Top Ten Twitter Phrases of the year is the word "Mayan Calendar" which means to the calender created by the Mayan Civilization and which ends on 12/21/2012. This came with the humor that the world will destroy on this year of 2012 and a movie too released on this theme. This was the reason why the keyword of "Mayan Calendar" is discussed too much over the Twitter.

The phrase, which was given the Top position is the "King of Pop", the real time search key which was the most tweeted and in a tribute to Michael Jackson.

These are the phrase of the year 2009 over the Twitter..... Lets see what are the popular phrase of the upcoming year.

Now Tweets in French language

Twitter wants to have their active users from France. As, they are adding up Multi language Twitter. Today they officially announced the Twitter in French Language. A users can choose the French your default language and can even tweet on this language. Some days ago they launched the Spanish supported twitter which had a great feedback by the French Users.


Twitter's Official blog post about the new translated version of French language:
With the addition of the Spanish version of the site last month, many people have joined the conversations on Twitter. More and more people twittent outside the United States and we are now able to accommodate users of nearly 30 Francophone countries. It is now possible to change the language settings in French with the participation of translators who have helped turn Twitter into a platform for truly global communication.
The French twitteurs golds can already track people and companies they are familiar. Whether you attended or @ @ Lepicerie lopera for your gastronomic outings, you read @ lemondefr way to work or you listen @ theteenagers on the way home or you’re a fan of @ CanadiensMTL, there is a wealth of information useful to discover at any time.
To see Twitter in French, just check your settings and select “French” from the menu.

Retweet option on your Twitter Home Page

This feature is a nice idea of Twitter Team and is very helpful to Original Twitterer's tweet. This is now going to stop the copying of tweets of original user.

Twitter itself added an option like "Retweet" on its page and users can easily anyone's tweet without copying or putting RT @.... This new implementation made the Retweeting fast.



If you are daily ReTweeter then this new option will really help you!! They even added a section called "Retweet" in their right sidebar, where you can find who is Retweeting and who retweeted your Tweets and even the retweet of yours... But you can only track those user's retweets whom you are following.

This feature helped the thousand follower holders, who are automatically getting Retweets without the help of 3rd party applications like Tweetmeme and other...

HootSuite is too providing services like TwitterFeed.

HootSuite is now also providing a service like twitterfeed.com, it actually helps the user to update his profile automatically without being spending time for tweets. I think this feature of Hootsuite will highly benefit the users for increasing their followers.

How it is effective than Twitterfeed?
Actually, Hootsuite is well known to most of the users and they believe that it only provides the user to tweet for their multiple profile at a time and no other stuffs.

They put this service under the settings option. Check it out if you are thinking of automated posting...

Creating a list with slash "blog" is useless

Creating a list with twitter.com/yourusername/blog on the Twitter's recently launched feature, is a bad idea.

When create a list with slash blog then you will not able to see any pages of it. Actually, it is default when a user creates list with the term "blog", it redirects to blog.twitter.com. They did this to retain some power of the term "blogging".

But an interesting thing to say that you may list the user on that page but totally useless..

Example: http://twitter.com/Arijitblog/blog

The above is the link i created to test it.. By clicking it you will sent to Twitter's official blog.

Twitter symbols and faces.

Use these twitter symbols and faces to make your Tweets more interesting.
¢ – cent
£ – pound
¤ – currency
¥ – yen
€ – euro sign
§ – section
© – copyright
® – registered trademark
™ – trademark
° – degree – e.g. 45°
¹ – superscript 1
² – superscript 2
³ – superscript 3
· – middle dot
¸ – spacing cedilla
¼ – fraction 1/4
½ – fraction 1/2
¾ – fraction 3/4
¿ – inverted question mark
× – multiplication
÷ – division
• – bullet = black small circle
◊ – lozenge
℠ – Service Mark
℃ – Celsius
℅ – care of
℉ – Farenheit
№ – numero symbol – number sign
℗ – Sound Recording Copyright
℞ – Prescription Take pharmaceutical symbol
Ω – Ohm
℧ – Inverted Ohm
☀ – sunshine – sun
☁ – cloudy – cloud – dark cloud
☂ – raining – rain – umbrella
☃ – snow – snowman
☄ – shooting star
★ – star solid
☆ – star outline
☇ – lightning
☈ – thunderstorm
☉ – sun
☊ – ascending node
☋ – descending node
☌ – conjunction
☍ – opposition
☎ – phone
☏ – phone symbol outline
☐ – check box
☑ – check box check mark
☒ – ballot box with X
☓ – St. Andrew’s Cross
☚ – left-pointing index finger
☛ – right-pointing index finger
☜ – left-pointing index finger
☝ – upwards pointing index finger
☞ – right pointing index finger
☟ – downwards pointing index finger
☠ – skull & crossbones
☡ – caution sign
☢ – radioactive sign
☣ – biohazard sign
☮ – peace sign
☯ – yin & yang
☹ – frowning face
☺ – smiley face
☻ – black smiley face


☽ – waxing crescent moon
☾ – waning crescent moon
♈ – Aries
♉ – Taurus
♊ – Gemini
♋ – Cancer
♌ – Leo
♍ – Virgo
♎ – Libra
♏ – Scorpio
♐ – Sagitarius
♑ – Capricorn
♒ – Aquarius
♓ – Pisces
♔ – White King
♕ – White Queen
♖ – White Rook
♗ – White Bishop
♘ – White Knight
♙ – White Pawn
♚ – Black King
♛ – Black Queen
♜ – Black Rook
♝ – Black Bishop
♞ – Black Knight
♟ – Black Pawn
♠ – black spade suit
♢ – red diamond suit
♣ – black club suit = shamrock
♤ – red spade suit
♥ – black heart suit = valentine
♦ – black diamond suit
♧ – red club suit
♨ – hot springs
♩ – musical quarter note
♪ – musical eighth note
♫ – musical single bar note
♬ – musical double bar note
♭ – flat note
♮ – natural note
♯ – sharp note
✁ – cut above
✂ – cut here
✃ – cut below
✄ – scissors
✆ – public pay phone
✇ – film reel – tape spool
✈ – airport jet airplane
✉ – envelope mail email
✌ – victory sign
✍ – signature – sign here
✎ – pencil diagonal down
✏ – pencil
✐ – pencil diagonal up
✓ – check mark
✔ – heavy check mark
✕ – multiplication sign X
✖ – heavy multiplication sign X
✗ – ballot X
✘ – heavy ballot X
✝ – Latin Roman Cross
✞ – Latin Cross 3D shadow
✟ – Latin Cross outline
✠ – Maltese Cross
✡ – Star of David
❛ – quotation mark single turned comma
❜ – quotation mark single comma
❝ – quotation mark double turned comma
❞ – quotation mark double comma

We didn't created these above symbols. We just put the post to make it helpful to you... Mainly for active twitter user. Just Bookmark it and use it when you want.

Twitter added an option to Follow the list of Featured Account

Twitter Recently studied that new users are finding difficulties to find the active twitter user’s profile as a result they follow the non active users. So, to reduce this non-sense following, they put a list “option on the profile, from where a new user can find the active users to follow

This feature is now not available to everyone and a ”small group” of users got it right now.

Make your own short Url Service

I am very excited to say you that you can now create your own short url serivice... So, why we will go for such short url services like tinyurl, bit.ly and others.


The short url service of your own domain can increase your traffic as well as can place a good impression to the real time search users... It may come that the Twitter users starts using your short url service if they found your url more catchy than others.

A script by YOURLS , gives you the personal (private) or commercial (open to public) URL shortener for free. The script requires a server with PHP 4.3, MYSQL 4.1 and mod_rewrite enabled.

A Step by Step guideline by ShoutMeLoud to create your own URL shortening service. Follow its guidelines install it on your server.

Why personal Twitter account is created

Twitter is not only for the Commercial use... The twitter personal account is highly need over internet to make you a perfect web user...

There are some reasons for it...
If you are user of any social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut, Hi5 and others, then your friends want to know more about you... So, Twitter is the fastest and the easiest way to share your daily status. You can send your status in the form of small message to them who are listening you.

You can check your own fans by increasing the amount of twitter followers. The follower are very much important for every twitter user..

The personal twitter user also works as the Open identity for you, with which you are able to access to any of the site you want to participate. Even i am having many twitter accounts for my different products or blogs, then even i created a personal twitter account. My Twitter profile is : Arijitblog. Here My name starts with "A" which i feel really interesting...
This twitter profile will help me to identify me as the blogger all over the internet and i am going to put my profile link everywhere i participate...

Twitter will be launching two wines

The recent announcement by the Twiiter co-founder Biz Stone saying that Twitter will be launching its two wines -a Pinot Noir and a Chardonnay. With parnershiping with an non profitable organization which is working on free and improving literacy all around the world, mainly the poor countries.

For a good cause it came in the field of microblogging, the project in the video, titled “Fledgling Wine“. See the below video to know more. "Stone describes the project".