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As social media services grow, they become more and more interesting for advertisers. Magpie, a brand-new “twitter advertising network” (and in no way affiliated with the RSS-parser library bearing the same name) is offering tweepers money to embed spam ads in their timeline. This sure was unavoidable, but at first glance, the European-based network is doing a pretty nice job. Read the rest of this entry »

Of all twitter add-on services, Mr. Tweet has surprised me most during the last week. That basic aim of the service is to let you find folks in whose tweets you might be interested in. Since twitter is still growing so rapidly, topic-specific selection becomes more and more inevitable. Yet while I’m quite sure that in the long run the retweet-rate will act as twitter’s “backlink factor”, Mr. Tweet introduces a well thought-through recommendation system. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m not too big a fan of mixing personal twitter accounts with automated postings, so I set up a dedicated twitter account for this task. If you prefer to receive datadirt postings via tweet, just follow @datadirtrss. Of course I’ll continue to use my personal acccount @datadirt for manual updates, while the frog-bot will send out automated updates via the new account. Read the rest of this entry »

Auto-follow is a great feature for twitter, because it helps you save a lot of time. On the other hand though, plenty users are afraid of automatically following the likes of spam-bots and such. TweetLater, one of my favorite one-stop-shop twitter mash-up, updated their auto-follow feature today: users may now chose to moderate who to follow and who to keep a respectful distance from. It’s called “vet new users” and you have to turn it on once if you’re already using a TweetLater account. Read the rest of this entry »