Twitter chats are generally arranged in advance, and there is normally a pre-agreed theme. The conversations are centralised thanks to the humble hashtag, without which it would be rather difficult for multiple people to follow the ‘conversation’.

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6 Tips to Run a Successful Group Twitter Chat

Now a buzzword that’s been kicking around for a while now as the ‘next big thing’ online is Social Commerce and these updates from Google and Bing could dramatically influence where customers now choose to shop online.

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Are Social Search Updates About to Change How We Shop Online?

Ahh.. Luke’s failure at the cave. Remember that? He ran in, light saber blazing and ended up killing himself? That is what we tend to do when we start a Twitter account for our business and that’s what I wanted to address. So as a social media guy, (note that I in no way said expert), the second most asked question I get is, 'How do I get followers on Twitter?'

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Everything I Know about Twitter I Learned in The Empire Strikes Back.

Social media represents both opportunity and risk, with an emphasis on the latter among people who either don’t understand it or prefer to hold out until it becomes mainstream. The is why securing internal buy-in is a must. Often, this involves convincing your CEO and executive team why to do online and inbound marketing. Sometimes this problem has to do with company culture or leadership, but often it comes down to communication and how it is explained. Really, many marketing teams could learn from their sales counterparts on how to achieve this.

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How to Sell Your CEO on Social Media Marketing

Don’t equate social media with just Facebook and Twitter – you may as well call yourself a ’social media expert’ which always gets a laugh at any social media conference I have been to – there is just too much going on to call yourself a ’social media expert’ – wait 20 minutes, and something will change.

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Social Media Tunnel Vision: Facebook and Twitter

Once you or your organization views the world with a networked mindset, then you need to visualize the network. There are many approaches and visual analysis tools. Let’s look at the ones that allow you to see the current relationships and potential ways to weave them on social media and social networks like Twitter. There are many tools to visualize your Twitter network. While they are fun (and addicting), they are most useful if you set aside some time to not only generate the visual, but think about what does it mean for your current practice.

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What Can You Learn by Visualizing Your Twitter Network?

One-night stands are a firecracker of sexuality: short, explosive, easily found in Vegas, and they leave a lasting memory that often trumps the actual experience. Twitter is the one-night stand of the social media world, offering that short, explosive and instant relationship potential.

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Why Twitter is Like a One-Night Stand

TweetLouder scans a user’s iTunes, Pandora, Last.fm, as well as SonicLiving accounts and cross-references their selections with known musicians/groups already on Twitter (users can also manually input individual bands/musicians as well into the provided Search box).

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TweetLouder – Connecting Bands to Their Fans’ Twitter Profiles

You might be wondering: how did the maven who brought us “U Can’t Touch This” and Hammer pants transform into a social media guru with more than two million followers on Twitter? He claims that Silicon Valley technology has inspired him over the years to spread his messages globally and get an early jump on the Internet, social media platforms and techniques like using streaming video. So the question is for brands — are there any lessons to be learned from MC Hammer?

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Why “U Can’t Touch” MC Hammer When it Comes to Social Media

Philip Calvert is a professional speaker on Social Media and the Founder of IFA Life - the social networking site for financial planners, IFAs and professional financial advisers.

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Are you kidding yourself that Social Media is working in your business?

There’s some speculation this weekend over the reasons why Twitter suspended three third-party mobile apps on Friday. Ubertwitter (now known as Ubersocial), Twidroyd and Ubercurrent were all suspended due to what Twitter described as "policy violations." What this means from the user point of view is that if you use any of these apps on your mobile device, it doesn’t update your tweets any more, neither the ones to and from your community, nor ones mentioning you or private messages. And you can’t send any yourself either.

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When Twitter and Entrepreneurs Collide: Twitter Suspends 3 Third-Party Mobile Apps

It is very easy to set yourself into a downward spiral if you put too much emphasis on your social networking activities. It's also pretty easy to avoid the trap.

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How to Avoid Social Media Depression

Although you are a firm believer in social media and all that it offers, you are still bound to come across business associates who don’t seem to understand its value and how amazing it can be for their business.

What kind of results will show up? Areas where Twitter is particularly strong: news (as the recent events in Egypt made clear), technical information (eg. the code samples and tips often searched for by developers), and location-based searches that could show up results from Foursquare, Gowalla and other similar services from local searches.

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Google Social Search and Twitter: Natural Bedfellows?

Twitter has a vibrant ecosystem of companies using its API. The problem for Twitter, however, is how to manage and generate revenue at a time when some companies are enjoyed major success.

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Is a Twitter vs. the Ecosystem Row Brewing?