[Update: Check the comments -- there's a reasonable explanation after all.] Mike Filsaime’s new Twitter/Facebook client app has generated a lot of buzz the last few days. For the most part, it looks like a great idea and a useful app (I’ve noted some of the problems with the beta version in my previous post [...]

What’s the best way to keep up with your Twitter friends? You’ve got 3 options:

On the Twitter website
In an RSS feed reader
Using a dedicated Twitter client

On the Twitter website
There’s a reason why so many Twitter clients have been created. I’m not saying the Twitter website is horrible, but it’s not the most elegant way to [...]

Not on Twitter yet? Think it’s a pointless waste of time? I’ve got an inkling as to why — and how closing your eyes may help you get started. The first time I saw Twitter, I thought the same thing — “this looks really dumb.”
Twitter’s single biggest barrier to entry and reason for not sticking [...]

I see it all the time — some guru (or wannabe) releases what could have been a good internet marketing info product. But since they’re more interested in sales than ethics, they just can’t resist adding a little “hash” to their brownie mix.
What am I talking about?
Here’s an example: I created a website a few [...]

When I read the headline “Sponsored Tweets Launches: The End of Twitter As We Know It?“, I fully expected to read the article, say “yep, bad idea that will surely fail”, and go on with my day.
Turns out it’s an interesting idea. It might still fail — definitely an uphill battle ahead.
I’m sure there’ll be [...]

I have to laugh every time I hear some big-name marketer whining about their Twitter in-box overflowing with auto-DMs. “What, you didn’t expect it?”
Before you get all in a kerfuffle, let me say that I DON’T approve of sending multiple auto-DMs to the same person. One when they first follow you is generally fine (but [...]

I’ve talked before about how some Twitterers follow way too many people. Some do it innocently, feeling obliged to follow anyone who follows them, and others with less noble intentions.

“Fail Whale, meet Fauxlow Fowl”
The problem is that by the time you’re following maybe 100 people (much sooner if many of them tweet actively), there’s no [...]

You may have seen the latest Twitter trick for spreading your message. Those who use it might call it “viral marketing”. I call it a Twhort (and that’s not a good thing). Here’s how it works.
A marketer offers a free download to anyone who “tweets” a particular message (ie. posts it on their Twitter account [...]

…and so must all other tools that do the same thing. I don’t know which is responsible for the sudden flood of new Twitter followers I started receiving the other day, so I’ll name the one I found most prominently mentioned in a recent blog search.
Hummingbird is a Twitter Spam Tool
I’m sure I’ll get some [...]

I use three main tools to track my websites’ traffic. Each has a different focus and provides different benefits. One tracks potential traffic sources. One gives real-time feedback on actual incoming traffic. And one shows me the long term big picture of my websites’ traffic.
The first tool is blog search — I subscribe to blog [...]