Twitter as most of you will already know is a free micro-blogging service not to mention a great networking tool that allows you to send, receive and read others updates or tweets as they are known. With just 140 characters to play with in each tweet it’s great for buzzing things while your on the fly, reeling off random comments and sharing things you’ve just seen.
Last week we watched a short video from Think Vitamin where Ryan Carson talked with Paul Boag about ‘The Demise Of The Website’ (amongst other things). But what was he really getting at? Well having talked about it within the team we think he was trying to get across that your website (however great it is) is not enough when it comes to attracting new business via the web.
If you use Twitter you’ll have started to notice the emergence of the use of #hastags along the way. Many of us might have thought that someone accidentally typed something in on their tweet by hitting the # symbol, but really they are simply making it easier to use Twitter. The hashtag is basically a tool used to sort through and link conversations on Twitter.
Monday saw the public release of Atebits.com Tweetie for Mac, the big brother to the already successful Tweetie iPhone App which for many is considered the best Twitter client on the market.
As a desktop client it has some stiff competition to the already very successful TweetDeck but we’ve been playing around with Tweetie the past few days and let’s just say we are very impressed with the new app and it looks like it’ll be our new favorite here. The interface is sleek and oozes transitions and design ques all over the shop. It’s perfect for the Mac and Atebits seem to have hit the nail on the head as it really does look as if Apple would have created it themselves. But, and yes there is a but, it’s not perfect, yet.
If you own a website then you are bound to be concerned about getting it noticed. All to often people believe that if they put up a professional looking website, traffic will come - This is not the case. You need to actively promote your websites products/services and post relevant information to potential new customers or clients, this doesn’t need to be costly - it just takes time.
