Twitter spam tips and bible

Two new articles I found today about Twitter – worth a read

“Twitter Tips: Three Ways To Deal With Twitter Spam -
You can take proactive steps to prevent Twitter spam such as unwanted direct messages promoting products and services. Here are three quick tips for keeping Twitter relevant and keeping spammers and mass-followers out.” By C.G. Lynch

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“Twitter Bible: Everything You Need To Know About Twitter -
Our Twitter guide delivers expert advice on how to get started, practice good etiquette, network and job hunt, search smart and stay organized with the social networking service. You’ll also find analysis on how to better engage your followers, use Twitter to reach customers, and go mobile with Twitter.” By C.G. Lynch

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Make it Easy to Share your Content on the Web

With the increasing profileration of web 2.0 tools on the web now it is great to see a service which helps you make your content easy to bookmark for sharing on a wide variety of social networking sites.

AddThis provides a bookmarking and sharing button to help distribute your content across the Web by making it simple for your visitors to bookmark pages and share them with other people. Over time this will drive more traffic back to your site, increase your link popularity and ultimately your search engine rankings.

Using this service means you don’t need to include a different button for each bookmarking service. The service is provided free of charge and also gives you statistics on its usage.

There are an extensive number of sites which AddThis provide links to including but not limited to: Delicious, Myspace, StumbleUpon, Digg, Technorati, Reddit, Facebook and so on.

Give it a try – AddThis today!

Creative ways to use social media

There is an article published today at Search Engine Land entitled Really Boring Products That Rocked in Social Media. The article shows some very creative ways people have used social media to drive traffic to their websites. I particularly like the urinals – check it out!