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On Friday, D.C. news outlet The Hill reported that Congressman Joe Wilson has hired a “professional tweeter.” What exactly does this kind of title mean? In my mind, this term evokes a comical reference to characters from movies like “Leon: The Professional” or “The Transporter.”
Despite what you may have heard last week on CNN, this [...]

I’ve just returned from the Palm Beach County Tweetup. For those of you that don’t know, a Tweetup is basically a flashmob of Twitter users in a particular geographic area coming together to talk about… Twitter. Yes, also to drink.
The nice thing is the conversation usually evolves away from Twitter into other [...]

The folks over at Tap Tap Tap are doing it right. The layout and function of their new Twitter campaign for a contest to win a Stealth MacBook Pro is clean, well thought out and well… functional.
Present the visitor with a crystal clear appreciation of what exactly they’re playing for. This seems like an extremely [...]

I’m not a huge Facebook user but I do have an account and I do check it out now and then. For the most part, I just push other social network update crap to it and call it a day. I don’t use any Facebook apps or play any games. I decline every MafiaWars, birthday [...]

I’ve become fascinated with small long-tail media properties that have decent revenue potential as related to their cost.  Speaking of such, here’s a little video from Darren Rowse with some entry-level Twitter talk.

Send it to your layfriends because Twitter needs more users, seriously.  No, I know that sounds sarcastic but really, we could use less [...]