Friday, February 6, 2009

Top Hashtags on Twitter


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On twitter, those words with # before them are called hashtags. They mark tweets from a certain group or for a certain effort.

For example:
#tweetsgiving was for tweets to help a thanksgiving charity effort

Some of the top hashtags in use on Twitter these days are:
  1. #gno same thing for Tues nights' 9pm Girls Night Out chat
  2. #journchat is when people are tweeting as part of the journchat weekly discussion
  3. #tcot top convervatives on twitter
  4. #followfriday who you'd suggest people follow, all day every Friday
  5. And of course, whatever conference is going on at the time, they usually have a hashtag for people who are tweeting from it
You can see tweets with hashtags and their trends at sites like:

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Redneck Twitter Tips


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Created this for the GSI Social Media brunch I did today-

Larry Possum from the Southern rock band Soul Possum guest starred with his incredible...

REDNECK TWITTER TIPS!




1. tell the truth, but whole truth, don't like about if ya married to sister, ya, there's nothing wrong with that, but you know lot of people don't understand

2. so lahk be yurself but like not as stupid, not like drunk all the time, not lahk sittin around on couch in your undies- but be yurself

3. you can talk about anything lahk yer dog, you should tell people about yur dog, lahk specially if it dahd and yer sad cuz then ppl will feel bad for you and they foller you- that's called a pity foller- hey that's as good as any other foller- lahk i ah say, follers is follers!

4. yeah if yer a redneck lahk me you prolly dont have- friends- but also you prolly don't have a blog, cuz you can really write, ya know- mah mom tho she's a genius, she made it all the way to the second grade- she's a genius! but if ya don't have a blog, you can still uh link to other ppl's blogs and they'll like be yur best friend- not lahk the kinda best friend that'll help you when yer so drunk yer throwin up on everything, but like you know, the kinda friend that'll tell ya if yer fly's down- yeah

5. and fer some strange reason all dese twitter folks they like uh jokes and they lahk uh pictures of cats with misspelled words on em, i dunno i thought all these uh ppl were educatered you know more than me, but they sure do lahk those cats with misspelled words on em

6. if you need uh a few follers, just foller all dese folks who foller lahk 600 billion people cuz they want everybody to think that uh there everybody's friend you know? (whisper) they're not! but hey, follers is follers!

7. yeah and uh keep it short, you know, if ya can you should uh definitely consider keeping yer tweets less than uh 200 characters- yeah that's real important

that's already like twelve tips thar

8. another thing- you know if ya can, you can be contrervershall- i do dat i didn't know i wuz but some ladies told me i was sexist and i was some kinda missus gymnast- which is weird cuz i've never done a flip or nothing- but so turns out ahm just natchrally pretty vershall- and that gets me lots of follers and replies and hate mail and follers and hey follers is follers!

man that's already like twenty twitter tips raht thar-

9. so uh lahk one more tip- uh, gotta be a good one- oh yeah, you can get lots of girls on twitter- you know, prettier than yer sister even- and uh, yeah lots of girls and there's so many girls that you can find a few that lahk you no matter how weird you are- i mean look at me, ahm a rpetty normal guy, but if yer weird you can still get some girls to foller ya, and hey, girl follers are girls follers! raht?

yeah thanks and everything that was like twenty five twitter tips raht there

ok- thanks, so um you have any questions for me, cuz ahm lahk a twitter expert.

ah toldja how to do it, toldja how to do it.

2,056 Random Things About Me!


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This got some buzz but you can't see it if you're not my facebook friend (why aren't you?) so here it is:

2,056 Random Things About Me!
Hey, Brian wrote 2,056 random things about himself and so YOU HAVE TO DO THE SAME THING OR YOU ARE A LOSER THAT DOESN'T CARE ABOUT HIM AS A FRIEND.

1. My name is pretty random.
2. So is my face.
3. Random numbers are really random.
4. I like ponies.
5. Random numbers from computers aren't really random.
6. I have all day to write this list because I have no life.
7. I used to have a job but all I did was write facebook notes so I got fired.
8. I don't cut my toenails everyday.
9. I like baby seals.
10. Mango juice is awesome.

(imaginary time passes)

122. Lists like these are cool!
123. I love lists!
124. Facebook rocks!
125. I'm texting someone right now

(imaginary time passes)

1623. I think I'm delirious!
1623. Hyenas and lollypops!
1623. Rainbows are smelly.

(imaginary time passes)

2053. A cop just told me to move on cuz I'm parked in a K-Mart parking lot writing this
2054. I've cried the entire last three hours (the last 564 random things)
2055. I love you.
2056. I love lamp. No really, I love lamp.

I think I might die now.

Are you really my friend?

Write a list like this. But include all 2056 items.

Monday, February 2, 2009

The 50 Most Famous People On Twitter


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  1. 20 already famous people we already know about.
  2. 30 people that nobody outside social media wants to know about.


How to Increase Your Twitter Followers If You're Kevin Rose


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  1. Invent Digg
That's it!

5 Critical Social Media Sites (Time is Money)


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  1. Twitter
  2. Facebook
  3. LinkedIn
  4. YouTube
  5. Flickr
That's it. Everything else is optional.

How to Get 15,000 Twitter Followers


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  1. Follow interesting people
  2. Say interesting things to them
  3. Talk to people who talk to you
  4. Retweet interesting stuff
That's it. Do that for a year.



Stop reading and go Twitter. You're wasting time on blogs.

Oh yeah, retweet this.

;-)