WBW | The Most Useful Web Marketing Posts About Twitter (October 2009)


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This is the October 20 2009 special edition of Who's Blogging What, a weekly newsletter that covers more than 1,000 top web marketing blogs to help busy online professionals involved in social media, search marketing, email, user experience and web analytics. Listed below are the recent posts on Twitter marketing that our readers have found to be the most useful. Subscribers receive updated lists with all new links weekly. If you would like to be kept up to date you can enter your email address in the box at the right.

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Changes? Twitter may have reached the point where it is less about celebrity and a bit more about selling. Miley Cyrus wasn't even around for the five billionth Tweet while Apple is just starting to feel the beat. Microsoft and Google are both lining up to tap into Twitter's real-time fire hose. Twitter is moving into location based services and tweaking their functionality by offering user lists. The API is improving and just about everyone is looking for ways to integrate Twitter into their site. Here are the recent posts that our readers found most useful for doing business on Twitter.

Doing Business On Twitter:

10 valuable Twitter utilities for business users [Between The Lines]
6 Ways Businesses Can Use Twitter [Silicon Alley Insider]
Tracking Your TCT (Twitter Click Through) [Luna Metrics]
Twitter To Add Location Data - A Precursor To Geotargeted Ads? [Moco News]
Twittering Your Way to Online Shoppers [Compete]
How to track inbound links from your social media profiles [Brian Cray]

Twitter Tools You Can Use:

Tweetmeme Adds Analytics To Make Sense Of Twitter Links [TechCrunch]
RankSpeed's Sentiment Search Engine Tracks Blogs And Twitter [TechCrunch]
Twitter Search Tips - Twitter Basic and Twitter Advanced Search [Marketing Shindig]
TwitSeeker: An Alternative Way to Find Twitter Users ''Twits'' [Alt Search Engines]
OneForty: A directory of Twitter apps [LA Times]
A Twitter News Portal [Buzz Networker]
Is there any such thing as too many Twitter logos? [Friday Traffic]
A peek at Twitter's new 'retweet API' [The Social]
100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Twitter Research [Sociable Blog]

Twitter in the marketing mix:

6 Ways To Integrate Twitter Into Your Site [Small Business Trends]
Designing Tweets: How To Integrate Twitter Into Your Web Site [SitePoint]
What can email marketing learn from Twitter, blogs and other social media channels? [E Consultancy]
Publishing to Twitter from Facebook Pages [Facebook Blog]
Bing to Let You Ping Search Results to Twitter and Facebook [Search Engine Journal]
Yahoo Launching English Version of Twitter Style Microblogging [Search Engine Journal]

Using Twitter Like A Pro:

Using Twitter for Marketing Without Annoying Followers [Big Marketing Small Business]
Seven Twitter Tips to Improve Your SEO [Stepforth]
Effective Twitter Backgrounds: Examples and Best Practices [Smashing Mag]
50 Beautiful & Unique Twitter Profile Designs [Six Revisions]
100 PR People Worth Following on Twitter [Conversation Agent]