Could Facebook subscribe Kill Twitter?

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As time went by I got less and less interested in what my friends were doing and more interested in the rest of the world.   Priorities were shifting. For me it was technology and social media. So to keep updated with all of that I used Twitter, like most of you. But over time [...]

How to Twitter For Beginners InfoGraphic

This is a very unique “infographic” guide from Twiends, which shows you exactly how to start using Twitter and gather more followers. Remember this is great for blogging SEO. Google actively monitors Social Media Sites to determine the popularity of your posts.   Join the Forum discussion on this post

LivingWordPress on your doorstep

We don’t just blog about staying social, we actually do it to. You can now stay up-to-date with everything that’s happening on LivingWordPress via your favorite social networks or good old RSS. 1. LivingWP Facebook page. (It’s brand new). 2. Our Twitter Profile. (Also pretty new). 3. Our Feed. 4. We’ll add more services when [...]

The WordPress of Twitter

A while back I posted on purplehazard.com about starting your own microblog. In this post I spoke about SatusNet, which is used to power indenti.ca. They offer a simple piece of software which you can download and install on your server, such as you would do with WordPress self-hosted. This allows you to run a [...]

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 [...]

FNB finally answering our Paypal prayers

It’s not exactly official, but it seems that Paypal could be available to South African users, in it’s full glory, come April. According to the Twitter buzz FNB is in talks with Paypal to make their services available to South African users in April 2010. So far FNB has kept quiet, but did confirm rumors that [...]

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. [...]

Afrigator Launches African Twitter

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Afrigator recently launched the Beta version of Gatorpeeps. Gatorpeeps is our new micro-blogging service that we hope will connect other Afrigator users together through short updates and community interaction. Many have asked for a way to find and communicate with other like-minded African users and as of today this is now possible.             – Gatorpeeps.com [...]