Start your own Twitter (Microblog)

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So, it’s as clear as day by now that Microblogging isn’t just another fad. It’s something that can be very valuable to any business, individual or in my case, blog owner. But apart from just using the available services such as Twitter, you can also start your own for free. You will find plenty of [...]

South African Bloggers Network

I recently noticed a lot of South African bloggers mentioning a Ning powered Blogging Social Network, located at http://sabloggers.ning.com . It seems, however, that the site was closed down. I decided to setup a new Ning powered community at the same adress. So, if you’re a South African blogger who would like to share and [...]

Twitter DDoS Attack

If you don’t know yet Facebook, LiveJournal and Twitter received a little wake-up call yesterday (6th August) in the form a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Facebook slowed down, LiveJournal had a few hiccups, but Twitter on the other hand, went down for a lengthy 2 hours. The DDoS attack managed to create enough [...]

Free Twitter Buttons

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            A really great way to increase your Twitter followers is to add a “Follow Me” button to your blog sidebar, or under your posts etc. You will notice the Follow Me button in my widget bar on the right. I really liked to site which provide these buttons and [...]

More Twitter Followers

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I’ve been using Twitter Tools for a long time to send an update of all my new posts directly to my Twitter account. I unfortunately never focused on increasing my Twitter Followers. I went Google searching and found a site called Fastfollowers.com. The site works like this : You Sign Up and connect your Twitter account. [...]