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Twitter SEO tips: How to get Tweets into Google Search Results

November 3, 2009

Time to review a little Search Engine Optimization, now that Google Shows Twitter Tweets in Search Results: Twitter Status in Search Results Just googled “Twitter Lists Embed” and to my surprise found Pete Cashmore’s Twitter Status in the search results. It looks just like all the other search results and shows up high in the [...]

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Finally, Search Engines can index people

October 30, 2009

Twitter Lists = People Tags This week Twitter Lists spread across the Web and early adopters have created lists of the people on Twitter that matter most to them. It’s very early in the people tagging game with Twitter Lists. But, link this new tool with last weeks news of partnership deals between Google, Bing [...]

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Twitter Lists: Don’t be Greedy, Be Picky

October 29, 2009

Twitter Introduces Twitter Lists The newest marketing opportunity presented by Twitter is Twitter lists. The new tool makes it easy to create lists of people you are following and to share those lists (if desired) with others. This is a really important development that will expand the Web of connections that makes Twitter so valuable. [...]

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Twitter / Google Partnership means more to Google than Twitter

October 27, 2009

At Web 2.o Summit Marissa Mayer, (Google CEO) opened her short presentation with a curious statement: Listen for yourself…. (it’s only 15 seconds) After announcing Googles partnership with Twitter, Mayer said, “We will be featuring their tweets in our search results, as well as building a real time search ummmmm . . . ” Then [...]

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Microsoft and Google search results to feature Twitter Tweets

October 21, 2009

Microsoft search engine Bing inked a deal with Twitter that includes tweets in search results. Microsoft announced the deal onstage at the Web 2.0 Summit today. The non-exclusive deal made it easy for Google to piggyback on the Bing announcement with their own announcement of a commitment to feature Tweets in search results. Significance of [...]

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Eavesdrop on Twitter by following your keywords

August 26, 2009

Eavesdrop – It’s allowed (even encouraged) One of the most useful things about Twitter is that conversations are public. The problem is that with so many conversations going on it is impossible to follow everyone who might be your ideal guest. However, it is possible to eavesdrop on conversations that include your keywords. It’s an [...]

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Tourism and Twitter: To Tweet or Not to Tweet?

August 13, 2009

Guest Post: When I arrive at work in the morning, the first thing I do is launch my Twitter deck. If your eyes are rolling, then you are not alone—many of my colleagues hear the chirp and twitter of my ‘tweets’ and also find themselves shaking their heads and rolling their eyes. Can this be [...]

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Will Twitter reach Mainstream? Nope.

June 23, 2009

I’ve been a strong advocate of Twitter for quite a while. There are significant benefits for users, but not everyone needs access to the “here and now web” for communication. I’m becoming more convinced that only a thin minority of people will use Twitter as a communication platform in the future. Why Twitter isn’t for [...]

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Twitter Search: Current Conversations & Travel

June 17, 2009

What are people talking about NOW It seems nearly impossible, but the travel product development and marketing & sales cycles are getting shorter and shorter due to the way we use technology I use Twitter Search on a daily basis to monitor conversations about: recession travel trends people talking about regional travel destinations green travel [...]

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Roughing it? Hardly. Let the media come to you!

May 22, 2009

With the relaunch of GlobeandMail.com and the regular Wednesday travel feature, we were delighted that Northern Edge Algonquin was featured in image and text in a story about a new travel trend… Glamping. For the past few days, the phone has been ringing like crazy as a result of this article. But the story just [...]

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