Twitter will Censor tweets by country

Twitter has now announced it will censor certain tweets depending on the rules of each country.

Prior to this technology being activated, if Twitter blocked a tweet, it was deleted across the service globally. The new system allows it to block tweets which may not comply with a certain country’s laws just in that location, but the messages will be still be live across Twitter around the world.

Biz Stone, Twitter’s co-founder, penned the original post, which said: “Our goal is to instantly connect people everywhere to what is most meaningful to them. For this to happen, freedom of expression is essential.

“Some tweets may facilitate positive change in a repressed country, some make us laugh, some make us think, some downright anger a vast majority of users. We don't always agree with the things people choose to tweet, but we keep the information flowing irrespective of any view we may have about the content.”

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Influence of Twitter and Facebook on Search Engine Results?

For longtime it has been doubted by SEO community, whether links shared on Facebook and Twitter affect SEO ranking on popular search engines like Google and Bing.Recently, these search engine giants have confirmed that SEO ranking and traffic depends upon the shared links and likes on Facebook and Twitter. Tricks of the trade change with time, now websites can be promoted through Facebook and Twitter along with the regular SEO technique.

It gives web marketers and social media optimizers to move forward by sharing in Facebook and tweeting in Twitter.However, it is not a straight forward way, it does not mean a website with more shares and links on Facebook can get positioned in top of search engine results. The actual fact is along with the regular SEO promotion it aids to improve the search engine ranking and boost traffic to website.

Does Google calculate tweeting and sharing in a meaningful way? Who shares and tweets your content is more important than the number of people sharing or retweeting the content. Not to mention, a popular profile can easily help to market any website without difficulty.

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How to Use Twitter for SEO

With Social networking sites gaining popularity in SEO industry, webmasters are ready to exploit all possible channels of social media marketing to drive more traffic to their websites. Twitter is the latest trend in social networking that already has left its mark in the social as well as professional arena. So, there is no wonder that SEO service providers would want to use the potential of Twitter for search engine optimization.

Does Twitter have SEO Value?

Now there is a big question whether a link posted on Twitter passes link juice or not. Well, Twitter has SEO value which may not be direct but the other way. Twitter adds a “nofollow” attribute to all the links posted by its users. Search engines like Google, MSN may religiously obey “nofollow” instructions but there are other search engines (Ask.com) that doesn’t really pay attention to it.  So, webmasters who solely target Google might miss something by ignoring Twitter.

With millions of users registering every year Twitter definitely can be a source of organic traffic to your website if you know how to use it. Search engines might ignore the links posted on Twitter but they can not ignore a huge number of followers to a profile. Search engines give more importance to tweets by users having large number of followers than that of users with fewer followers.

Therefore, increasing the number of followers should be one’s prime objective while using Twitter for SEO purposes. Once you become a prominent figure on Twitter chances are your followers will visit most of the links you tweet. Thus Twitter can positively affect your site’s Alexa rank by driving traffic to your way. If you can bring visitors to your site via Twitter that will be an added advantage search engine marketers can not afford to ignore.

How to Use Your Twitter Profile for SEO?

Here is how you can make your Twitter profile work.

Profile: You need to choose your username carefully in order to rank with your profile. A crisp and relevant bio is a must to get noticed by both human users and search engines.

Tweet: What you tweet is the most important of all. Tweet regularly but not too much as it can annoy your followers as well. Like humans search engines also don’t like the idea of tweeting for marketing purpose only. Google can take frequent tweet with the same content as spam.

Hash Tags:Keywords preceded by a hash tag (#) help in getting a placement in twitter’s real time search as well as Google search. Instead of covering a broader term you’ll better focus in more specific keywords for better ranking. For example, if your profile refers to an Indian SEO company using #SEOIndia would be more accurate than just #SEO.

Re-tweet: Leverage the power of re-tweet option in Twitter by posting some really good and useful content. Use widely searched terms in your tweets; try tweeting unique and interesting facts related to popular topics. Posting useful links and content will automatically impel your followers to re-tweet and recommend your profile to their followers.

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Airtel allows its customers in India free access to Twitter till March 1, 2012

Bharti Airtel has offered its 170 million mobile customers in India an opportunity to access Twitter on their mobile phones for free until March 1, 2012. The offer allows customers to enjoy free access to Twitter through web browsers and post Tweets, keep up with news around the world, and follow friends, celebrities, and others they choose to follow.

Furthermore, even without activating GPRS, Airtel mobile customers can sign up for Twitter or subscribe to SMS updates of specific users (via short code 53000) on their mobile phones for free during the offer period.

N Rajaram, chief marketing officer, consumer business, Bharti Airtel, says, "Today's discerning Indian customer is increasingly relying on the mobile device to access everything from e-mails and music sites, to social networks. In conjunction with this trend, we have introduced 90 days of free access to Twitter for mobile users in India on Airtel."

Rajaram further adds that this initiative will introduce new users to an exciting world of possibilities that mobile internet enables, thus providing an impetus to the data services market. He states, "Airtel has always been committed to deliver experiences that are innovative and relevant for customers. This launch reinforces our focus on this promise."

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How to Increase Twitter Followers in effective way

Twitter has emerged as a major social media platform in recent years. Several companies are now focusing on their twitter accounts to market their products or services. A majority of tweets are just for self promotion purposes but a few companies and individuals have succeeded in attracting a large number of followers which is beneficial for their personal brands and businesses.

Do you want to know how to increase your twitter followers? Here are a few simple tips to help you boost your fan base at Twitter:

 
1) Provide value

People who post only self-promotional or uninteresting tweets fail to attract people to follow them. If you are serious about gaining followers on Twitter you have to post tweets which are valuable and interesting for others. Before you post a tweet, think about the target audience and whether or not they are likely to respond to you Tweet. It’s Ok to tweet about yourself occasionally but remember to make it interesting. Your followers should never feel that your tweets are just as boring and useless as some of the tweets by other users.

 
2) Mix it up

You should try and post a variety of tweets to appeal to various types of users. You can post tweets which are:

i)   Text

ii)  Replies to other tweets

iii) Retweets etc.

When your tweets are a mixture of interactive and interesting messages, interesting external links and witty responses to other people’s tweets you would enhance your chances of getting more and more twitter followers.

 
3) Interact

You should regularly interact with your followers which also improves your chances of increasing twitter followers. Some of the best ways to interact is to reply to other people’s tweets or by retweeting. Interacting with your followers regularly is a great way to gain and maintain twitter followers. Twitter is not just a platform to post self promotional tweets and you should try and get involved in the community.

You should also abstain from following other twitter users in a hope of being followed back. Similarly avoid using any software or program which promises to get you tons of Twitter followers with almost no work on your part.

Twitter is a wonderful social platform to enhance your personal or brand image. You can certainly increase your twitter followers but you need to take the right approach and apply the suitable techniques to be successful. Remember, much like life there are no ways to achieve instant success on Twitter. You need to provide value to the community and be interactive and interesting with your tweets to slowly increase your twitter followers.

via [Tech2Hell]

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How to Share your Tweets in your Facebook wall

Now a days Twitter and Facebook are the viral social media. We used to share things with our friends and followers, most people update same thing in both Twitter and Facebook. Today i am going to guide you to how to Share your tweets in your facebook wall. Few months before there is an application to integrate tweets in Facebook wall but now Twitter included the Feature in Twitter Web UI itself. Its simple and Easy to Setup your Tweets to share on your Facebook wall.

Step 1:

First Login to the Facebook and Twitter. Then go to Twitter ‘Settings‘.

Step 2:

Click the ‘Profile’ Tab in the settings and you can find the Facebook feature at last.

 

Step 3:

Click ‘POST YOUR TWEETS TO FACEBOOK‘ button and it will ask your permission to connect the Facebook twitter app with your profile. Just Click “ALLOW”

Step 4:

Now its all done, Your Twitter is configured to share the tweets in Facebook.

 

Now Click ‘SAVE‘ and Post a Tweet and go to Facebook and check it will show your Tweet on your Facebook wall.

Hope you learned how to Share your tweets on your Facebook wall. Why waiting, just connect your Twitter with Facebook and share your Tweets in your Facebook Wall.

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Twitter Boasts That It’s Faster Than Earthquakes [VIDEO]

Twitter has released a short promotional video that touts that it’s faster than an earthquake.

The 47-second short notes draws attention to the fact that Twitter messages hit New York City before Virginia’s 5.9 magnitude earthquake had a chance to reach the Big Apple. The man in the video, warned of the quake via Twitter, picks up his mug before the quake strikes. He easily ignores the Twitter pillows and napkins being thrown at him.

The quake, which caused minimal damage, has been the subject of countless social media jokes. We expect that some will find the video insensitive, while others will laugh at the video’s whimsical nature.

At the very least, we agree with the video: Twitter is faster than earthquakes. Check out the video above and let us know what you think of the social media service’s video in the comments.

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Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]

As expected, the devastation in Japan from last week’s earthquake and tsunami captured the thoughts of Twitter users from around the world, and an outpouring of sentiment (which included the popular hash tag  #PrayForJapan), made this topic number one. If you’d like to make a donation to the relief efforts in Japan, which are still underway, here are some options:

• Donate $5 via Living Social and the company will match it in a contribution to the American Red Cross
• Check out these seven simple online ways to help the relief efforts.

Meanwhile, in Orange Country, California, a pop singing sensation was in the making. 13-year-old Rebecca Black, whose parents paid about $2,000 to the label Ark Music Factory to produce a song and music video, has had the entire Internet captivated for days. Following the tweeted discovery of the video by comedians Michael J. Nelson and Daniel Tosh, and the subsequent blogosphere frenzy, Black’s name has rarely left the trending topics list since last Friday, and lands at number two on this week’s chart. Speculation persists about what made this catchy pop tune such a viral powerhouse. The song is face-meltingly bad.

Soccer, no surprise, continues to trend strongly, and rounds out the top three topics this week.

For the full list of top trends, check out the chart below, compiled by our friends at What the Trend. Because this is a topical list, hashtag memes and games have been omitted from the chart.

You can check past Twitter trends in our Top Twitter Topics section, and read more about this past week’s trends on What The Trend.

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Top Twitter Trends This Week: 3/11 – 3/18

via mashable.com

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Twitter: 460,000 New Accounts Created Daily

Twitter will soon be celebrating the fifth anniversary of the first tweet, and the company Monday released a set of stats showing how huge the service has become.

This week in 2006, designers began creating a prototype of what would become Twitter. Jack Dorsey sent the world’s first tweet on March 21, 2006. On its blog, Twitter took the opportunity to point out some key stats, including:

• It took three years, two months and one day to get to the billionth tweet. Now there are a billion tweets a week.
• A year ago, people sent 50 million tweets a day. On March 11, 2011, the tally was 177 million.
• There were 456 tweets per second after Michael Jackson died in 2009. That record was broken on New Year’s Day this year with 6,939 tweets after midnight in Japan on New Year’s morning there.
• There were 572,000 new accounts created on March 12, 2011; there were 460,000 new accounts created daily, on average, in the past month.
• Mobile users increased 182% in the past year.
• Twitter has 400 employees today, compared to eight in January 2008.

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