Meet Someone New - Connect Twitter With Squidoo!
It's a win-win!
Use this lens to find new Squids on Twitter as well as strategies for enhancing your presence on both sites.
What's Inside...
- Reader Poll: Are You Taking Full Advantage of Twitter?
- What Exactly Is Twitter?
- Strategies for Building Squidoo and Twitter Together
- Who's Tweeting About Squidoo?
- List Your Squidoo Profile Address
- Post To Twitter From Squidoo
- More Squidoo Lenses About Twitter
- More Squidoo and Twitter Tips
- New Twitter Follow
- More Social Media Marketing Tools
- Search For More On Social Networking and Marketing
- Your Thoughts?
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Reader Poll: Are You Taking Full Advantage of Twitter?
What Exactly Is Twitter?
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.
The 140-character limit on message length was initially set for compatibility with SMS messaging, and has brought to the web the kind of shorthand notation and slang commonly used in SMS messages. The 140 character limit has also spurred the usage of URL shortening services such as tinyurl, bit.ly and tr.im, and content hosting services, such as Twitpic and NotePub to accommodate multimedia content and text longer than 140 characters.
Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet" since the use of Twitter's application programming interface for sending and receiving short text messages by other applications often eclipses the direct use of Twitter.
Twitter emphasized their news and information network strategy in November 2009 by changing the question it asks users for status updates from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?".http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/11/whats-happening-a-lot-says-twitter-coo/http://blog.twitter.com/2009/11/whats-happening.html Twitter is ranked as one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide by Alexa's web traffic analysis. Although estimates of the number of daily users vary because the company does not release the number of active accounts, a February 2009 Compete.com blog entry ranked Twitter as the third most used social network based on their count of 6 million unique monthly visitors and 55 million monthly visits. In March 2009, a Nielsen.com blog ranked Twitter as the fastest-growing site in the Member Communities category for February 2009. Twitter had a monthly growth of 1,382 percent, Zimbio of 240 percent, followed by Facebook with an increase of 228 percent. However, only 40 percent of Twitter's users are retained.
Strategies for Building Squidoo and Twitter Together
General StrategyIt's a simple idea, really: use each site to build your presence on the other. Tools like this lens do double duty - you can find more Squidoo users to network with and more Twitter friends as the same time, PLUS get a backlink for your Twitter profile. Find Twitter enthusiasts on Squidoo by including your Twitter feed on your lenses, and find Squidoo enthusiasts on Twitter by tweeting about your lenses.
Isn't that cool? It's like Web 2.0 yin and yang...
The best thing to do to make all these connections count, however, is to seek out people who share other common interests or, if you are promoting a business, are in your target market.
This two-way method of networking really works!
How To Use This Lens
All you have to do is browse through the above Twitter feed to see who on Twitter is talking about Squidoo. Then, you take your mom's advice and go make friends! You share at least one common interest, and you may find that your new Twitter friends are willing to visit the lenses you tweet about just like you visited theirs (hint hint).
The feed is different every time, so visit this lens often!
Who's Tweeting About Squidoo?
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- raphaeloo
- Beatrix Potter Art Gallery & Beatrix Potter Prints and Posters: http://www.squidoo.com/beatrix-potter-prints-posters
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- spunkyduckling
- @bdkz In case you're wondering or forgotten I'm a squidoo member..let me know if you knew about it. Cool is it?
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- Caroljs
- I just updated my Squidoo page: My Blogs and Webshops / http://tinyurl.com/yjaz8zo
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- GiantSquidTips
- Have you voted yet? http://www.squidoo.com/Vote-2009-Giant-Squid-Awards
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- Cindyleewho
- I just updated my Squidoo page: CreationsByCindyleewho Handmade Knitted Slippers / http://tinyurl.com/5sv88t
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- Lockkeeper001
- I just updated my Squidoo page: The Top Ten LCD Televisions For Christmas 2009 / http://tinyurl.com/yjq8u4a
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- sandralynsparks
- Bring out your magic: http://www.squidoo.com/powerofpersonalmagic
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- TAHITIANKING
- Reading this: http://www.squidoo.com/EroTicFuN
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- Revelation1217
- Funny Church Signs: http://www.squidoo.com/FunnyChurchSigns #funny
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- contestcontessa
- I know it's cold out today, but an ice cream cone maker sounds awesome. http://www.squidoo.com/ice-cream-cone-maker
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- Matthew519
- Funny Church Signs: http://www.squidoo.com/FunnyChurchSigns
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- Ariabeau
- I just updated my Squidoo page: Does erotic reading equal erotic viewing? / http://tinyurl.com/yacdeqm
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- ontariotourism
- Ontario Stokes Bay Lighthouse gonna get a Helicopter Air Lift Sat Dec 5th in BRUCE COUNTY http://www.squidoo.com/Ontario_lighthouse_Airlift
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- explorethebruce
- Ontario Stokes Bay Lighthouse gonna get a Helicopter Air Lift Sat Dec 5th in BRUCE COUNTY http://www.squidoo.com/Ontario_lighthouse_Airlift
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- biglnet
- Cat problems resolved http://www.squidoo.com/cat_problems
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- MoneyPearl19
- Reading this: http://www.squidoo.com/krykezclothing
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- magnets704
- Reading this: http://www.squidoo.com/How-To-Record-Elf-Yourself
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- jaguarjulie
- Have YOU heard of the Wizard of Zazzle? http://www.squidoo.com/the-wizard-of-zazzle
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- virtualted
- New post: Social Networking and Squidoo - Using Squidoo for Effective Social Networking (http://cli.gs/DQRL1)
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- fcbeadfacfef
- dBTechno (blog) Cell Phone Use Does Not Increase Risk of Brain Cancer dBTechno (blog) ... http://www.squidoo.com/bookmark_generation
List Your Squidoo Profile Address
Want to connect with other squids on Twitter? Do you surf for new and interesting lenses? Follow these good folks listed below:
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I.C. Jackson
Author of this lens, face behind SquidLove.2 points
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SquidLove - You Gotta Share the Love!
SquidLove is where great lenses get showcased and more...1 point
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http://www.twitter.com/GrowWear
MiMi on Twitter1 point
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http://twitter.com/coreyweb
corey brown aka coreyweb1 point
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GypsyGirl68
70s and 80s music lenses and blip.fm music tweets1 point
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CrypticFragment
art and design and other Squidoo tweets1 point
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Twitter / CleanerLife
CleanerLife1 point
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CCGAL - behind the redwood curtain
an enigma wrapped in a riddle (grin)1 point
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thefluffanutta
with the latest news and tips from Squidoo.1 point
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Twitter / Stazjia
Twitter is a free social messaging utility for sta more...1 point
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Thrivingmom
See what I've been up to...1 point
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Pixelrage @ Twitter
Marketing tips, cool sites & random stuff.1 point
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http://www.twitter.com/coach_gold
Creativity coach, writer and beader1 point
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http://www.twitter.com/flowers4u
Place to tweet information for missing and runaway more...1 point
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AJ2008 is aj1996 on Twitter
Someone else grabbed my normal name & is not u more...1 point
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Twitter / Rock_The_Ice
Rock_The_Ice's Twitter Profile!1 point
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http://www.twitter.com/jmfield
Split personality. Marketing on one hand, baking more...1 point
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TriathlonTraining / tritrain
The more the merrier!1 point
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Obsessed With Food
Hamburger.co.uk - More nonsense than you can shake more...1 point
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Twitter / BFuniv
Sauntering through life trying to accomplish impor more...0 points
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Twitter / inkserotica
Freelance writer and reviewer0 points
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http://www/twitter/com/legbamel
Writing, grammar, music recommendations, and gener more...0 points
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http://www/twitter/com/johnohl
Place to Tweet marketing programs and ideas and an more...0 points
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http://www.twitter.com/momsherbs
0 points
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http://www.twitter.com/moonvine
aka joan40 points
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Twitter / blumoondew
Let's get in touch...0 points
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Twitter / twelfthhouse
Absurd | Bizarre | Obscure0 points
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Rich Smith (smithlink) on Twitter
Twitter is a free social messaging utility for sta more...0 points
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Poems For Creation
This is a collection of some of my poetry on magne more...0 points
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Your Thoughts?
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- Joan4 Joan4 Nov 8, 2008 @ 6:55 pm
- Great lens! I was looking for a list like this! I love twitter. my twitter name is moonvine!
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- aj2008 aj2008 Oct 30, 2008 @ 12:07 pm
- I like Twitter - but you need to be careful about indiscriminate use of the Tweet your update button on your lenses!
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- packman57 packman57 Oct 29, 2008 @ 4:20 pm
- Great Lens. A place to learn tips and ideas for Squidoo, what a great idea. Well Done!
John
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- GrowWear GrowWear Oct 28, 2008 @ 11:23 pm
- Found this lens from your Tweet! Thanks for the opportunity to connect with more Squidooers!
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