Twitter Top Trending Topic of 2009

according to Chief scientist of Research team at Twitter  @Abdur Michael Jackson was the most talk about people on twitter. The Most engaging topic which twitter users found in 2009 was the Iranian Election. Harry Potter Stood at No. 1 most talked about movie on twitter while the American idol was no. 1 in television  show.   Here is the detail list in following pic:

Sell Your Affiliate Products With Twit Sniper

I always recommend Twitter as most convenient and important tool to promote your blog brand, your USP, your affiliate products and your contests.

My blog affiliate Marketer buddy Ian Fernando and Sam Robilotta has develop this very cool tool called “Twit Sniper” which helps you market your stuff superbly with twitter targeted traffic.

Twit Sniper A Unique Twitter Follow System Base on Real Time Conversations at The Keyword Level, giving you the benefit to promote your brand, product, or affiliate offer. See Why Targeted Users Are More Prone To Buy Than The Ones With Huge Followers.

What Twit Sniper does it take the power of scheduling and mergers it with other automation features, Twit Sniper does not trigger twitter red flags because it keeps things at timed intervals and gives the appearance of it being a real person, as opposed to many tasks done back to back in short periods of time, Twit Sniper spreads the tasks out via timed intervals.

Twit Sniper has been design to nail three important aspect of twitter marketing

• Follow Targeted Niche related users
• Get followed by end user
• Send them tweets related to their needs.

Above task seems easy but isn’t that way unless you are equipped with twitter marketing tool like Twit Sniper.

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Bharti Airtel Partners with Twitter

It’s a good news for Indian Twitter Users, Bharti Airtel Limited, India Largest Telecom brand has now partner with Twitter, Airtel Mobile users can now update tweet via SMS right from there Airtel Mobile Phones. I am on Bharti Airtel Network so I am that they give me one more option to be in touch with my 10k twitter followers.

Twitter Founder Biz confirmed it on Twitter Blog:

Our partnership with Bharti Airtel, the largest mobile operator in India, means a huge population of people can now send tweets at standard rates and receive tweets for free. Bharti Airtel is offering people in every city, every village, every remote taluk and even the smallest panchayat the opportunity to connect to Twitter and enjoy the open exchange of information with no added fees. We are proud to have Bharti Airtel as our partner. Give Twitter a try with your Airtel phone by sending START to 53000. And spread the word!

Biz also mentioned about some Indian celebrities using twitter which shows that it’s getting pulse here and will rock the scene in next couple of years.  film stars Priyanka Chopra @priyankachopra Gul Panag @gulpanag, and Mallika Sherawat @mallikala, director Karan Johar @kjohar25, Minister of State Shashi Tharoor @shashitharoor, upper house member Pritish Nandy @pritishnandy, news anchors Barkha Dutt @bdutt and Vir Sanghvi @virsanghvi, plus media outlets MTV India @MTVindia and NDTV@ndtv actively tweeting around.

Dot Com Guru Guide on Twitter Traffic

Twitter is no doubt biggest twitter Booster that you can have to boost massive traffic to your blog or website. I have explained everything in simple English in my eBook “dot Com Guru Guide to Twitter Traffic” about how you can build a massive Twitter Follower list and how you can drive targeted visitor to your blog posts. If you aren’t using twitter as a way of generating free traffic to your website, you’re missing out on one of the easiest marketing strategies ever to hit the Internet. So use twitter as a tool to drive an unstoppable flood of traffic to your website, at absolutely no cost.

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Holy Cow, I Hit the 10000 Twitter followers Mark

So when I tweet now it will reach to the 10000 Twitter users instantly, I guess it’s a kind of big deal as now I can do a lot more with my this huge number of twitter followers.

What is the best use that I can make out of this 10k Twitter Follower?

Traffic from Twitter to my blog is not very huge but yes it is a consideration amount of traffic that I receive from Twitter everyday. I guess I can use the system to promote my affiliate products also.

Okay would you like to suggest me some more better ways to utilize this my 10k people social media platform?

One more thing yesterday Twitter has made some changes in twitter Terms of Service. You can find new twitter terms of service here.

But if you need to learn more Professional stratgies on how you can Use Twitter as Traffic generator to your blog then you can get this ebook Worth $11.99 on Twitter Traffic startegies for FREE here.

Hit Me on Twitter by Mistah F.A.B. Official Video

Twitter is everywhere, Mistah F.A.B has released their official Video ” Hit Me on Twitter”. This 3 Minutes 56 Seconds Rap Hip-Hop Video is full of Twitter Fun. Enjoy.

Here are some lyrics from the song:

I follow you, and you follow me, we can kick it, like one of the homies. What’s your government? I see your screen name. Is this really you, people playing teen games.First it was BlackPlanet, then MySpace, then Facebook took over my place. Whoa, now I’m stuck on Twitter. If I see a girl then I’m gonna go get her.

F.A.B. mention Twitter’s founders Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams names but forget to mention  Biz Stone ( Big Mistake). He also shout out to  Diddy, Britney Spears, MC Hammer, Ashton Kutcher, Barack, Soulja Boy in the song.

Can You Do It Priyanka?

Sometime ago there was a lot of buzz about the Twitter 1 million followers’ war between CNN and Ashton Kutcher.  This strange and unique fight between mainstream Media (CNN) and Hollywood Star Ashton Kutcher fueled when Ashton made a video statement that he wanted to beat CNN to one million followers. Interestingly he promised in that video that if he wins he will “ding dong ditch” billionaire Ted Turner’s (founder of CNN) House. Finally Ashton won this race of 1 million twitter followers and “ding dong Ditch” too at Ted’s house.

Coming to India, now the most beautiful, stunning and talented actress Priyanka Chopra join twitter and tweeting actively from a while. Priyanka has great fan following in India. I know she can make it to 1 Million Twitter Followers soon and can become the first Indian or should I say first Bollywood celebrity to achieve this status.  She connected to twitter on June 18^th. She is now followed by more than 25000 users (at the time of writing of this post) and I hope very soon she will accomplish the Twitter 1 Million Followers Mark as she is very popular among Indian youth.

Surprisingly biggest star of Indian Film Fraternity Mr. Amitabh Bachchan is still missing the Twitter Magic, when someone from print media asked him:

Mr. Bachchan Have you succumbed to using twitter yet?

Mr. Bachchan relied “What on earth is that?”

Oh that’s really strange he has not heard of twitter yet, I am saying this because he is very active at blogging and continuously updating his blog from last one year without fail. His blog is visited by more than 5 million people every month. I guess soon he will also start tweeting.

Why more and more celebs are getting additive to Twitter

Well if you look at the statistics 7 out of top 10 spot of the most popular Twitter users occupied by Hollywood celebs. Can you suggest and throw a little light on why these celebs are now becoming devotee to twitter?

Follow Priyanka Chopra on Twitter

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Avoid These 3 Mistakes at Twitter

I am giving you today Shama Kabani (formerly Shama Hyder) who is talking about 3 Twitter’s Don’ts. I guess it will help you build a more potential community and followers at twitter for your blogs or small business businesses.

She has been dubbed “an online marketing shaman” and “a millienial master of the universe” by Fast Company. She is the President of Click To Client, a full service web marketing firm. When not working directly with clients, Shama travels the world speaking on social media marketing.

Followed By Five Thousand

It’s good to see I am now followed by 5000 people of twitter. This Sunday when @GIFT4Tw8 Clicked on my “follow” button probably he did not know that he was my 5000th Twitter follower. It’s cool; great to see when you tweet something and it appears on twitter’s 5000 user’s screen. It’s not easy to get as many followers for me until I learn to handle twitter through some useful lethal tools to do tweeting in great style. Let me share with you how I tweet.

Twitter Follower: You Scratch my back and I’ll Scratch yours

When someone follows you on twitter he/she expects you to follow him/her back, it’s as simple as that. People with equal numbers of followers and people followed by are the once who preferably followed by more people. My Guru John Chow has come up with a new startup called TwitterFollower.com. You can use it for mass unfollow people whom you are following and who are not actually following you back.

TweetDeck

I use TweetDeck for tweeting. It’s a powerful tweeter application designed in adobe AIR. This made my tweeting experience really easy and handy.

Twitter Page Background.

I have designed my twitter background. I think this helps me get more followers. Your twitter page background must look impressive, if someone land on my twitter page he immediately click that ’Follow’ button and moreover he also visit to my blog through that link given at the top right of Twitter page. I have designed my Twitter background by myself but if you wish you could find some free resource where you can get your twitter background deigned.

Tweetlater

This Twitter Tools has so many features like posting a direct message immediately when someone follows you. Schedule tweets and keep your Twitter stream ticking over with new tweets even when you’re not in front of your computer. Publish tweets when your international followers are online and you’re asleep.

What’s your Twitter Story?

Share your experience with twitter in comments section below. Thanks for following me.

Follow me on Twitter

http://twitter.com/ShankerBakshi

Following Rahul Gandhi and Shashi Tharoor on Twitter

Ha has served as the UN Under-Secretary General to Kofi Annan. He was the official candidate of India for the office of United Nations Secretary-General and came second out of seven official candidates in the race.He is an author, journalist, human-rights advocate, humanitarian and adviser and fellow of various institutions. He is now a member of Indian Parliament and you can now follow him on Twitter

He is the one among those couple of MPs who knows what twitter is among 543 newly elected members of Parliament. I’m talking about Shashi Tharoor, MP from the Trivandrum constituency in Kerala. Fifteenth Lok Shabha (Indian Parliament) is not the youngest so far, it has only 36 members between ages of 30-40 but look at this figure; 68 members are between ages of 70-80.

Internet Social media sites played a vital role in Barak Obama’s victory; there is no doubt about it. Inspired by that Indian politician spend a big amount of their election campaign on Internet advertising, you remember that Advani for PM ad flashing all over internet space in India.  I have seen some contestants writing blogs before election to grab Indian youth attention; don’t know whether they would carry their blogging thing after winning elections.

Rahul Gandhi Also uses Twitter and was updating it while he was working hard campaigning for victories Indian National Congress.

Internet and India both are definitely changing. What say?

Rahul Gandhi on Twitter

Member of Indian Parliament Mr. Shahi Tharoor on Twitter

Statuzer – Yet another Twitter Air Application

There is a new Twitter desktop client named Statuzer is in the town. I use TweetDeck and by far this is the best Twitter desktop client available and you will agree that it has everything you need, but when I found Statuzer I thought lets give it a shot.  It looks similar to TweetDeck and both are framed on adobe air but Statuzer have some cool extra features which make it different.  Statuzer will sure give TweetDeck a run.

Statuzer come with following features:

• fully customizable color scheme
• MP3 Playing from song.ly and tra.kz
• Jamendo music search (free and legal)
• Displays twitpic images in tweet
• Youtube Thumbs
• Twitter search moving Trends
• Hashtags
• Fast display filter
• contacts groups
• followable Twitter searches
• notifications
• URLs preview
• image/webcam upload
• image/webcam upload to twitter profile image
• multi-account
• search filters
• short URLs (Twitter API)
• encode/decode MinUrl and TinyUrl

It seems it has been design to give some pleasure along with promoting your stuff on twitter. Give it a try. It is HERE.

The Twitter 1 Million Followers War between CNN and Ashton Kutcher is Over, Ashton Wins

If you are big at one place that dose not give you a Right that you would be consider big everywhere, here I am the boss.

-Shanker Bakshi

I love to use this phrase whenever something like above happens, there are examples when these biggies failed miserably and trophy lifted by the Guys Next Door.

I think you are now aware of CNN and Ashton Kutcher Twitter I million followers Race. This fight between mainstream Media (CNN) and Hollywood Star Ashton Kutcher fueled when Ashton made a video statement that he wanted to beat CNN to one million followers. Interestingly he promised in that video that if he wins he will “ding dong ditch” billionaire Ted Tuner’s (founder of CNN) House. “Ding Dong Ditch” is a sort of game played by children when they go up to a person’s house, ring their doorbell, then run away and watch as they look around to see who’s there.

Now as the war is over and Ashton Kutcher hits 1 Million Twitter Followers mark beating CNN in this race, I’m eagerly waiting when Ashton will stream the video of him Ding Dong Ditch at Ted Tuner house. Go Ashton Go, we are following you

Ashton Kutcher Promised if he beats  CNN in 1 Million Twitter Follower race he will “Ding Dong Ditch” Ted Tuner’s House.

Larry King replied back to Ashton Challenge.

But Finally Ashton Wins this Race.

UPDATE : Here is Mrs Ashton Kutcher ( Demi Moore) with her more then half a million followers

Flutter is The New Twitter

Slate V has come up with a comic video to monk those who are addicted to micro blogging. Remember I posted something sort of last week also.

With a fictitious company called Flutter which is a micro blogging site with 26 words to express “what are you doing”, CEO Zak Ryman comically illustrate what would be twitter doing in our lives in coming years.

Although it’s a video made for fun but somewhere it also make a point to think are we really going this much crazy with “twitter”. End is hilarious.

Watch it.

Twitter Office

Twitter is hiring for their San Francisco Office, so if you wish to be a part of this small 30 employees company which is going to be the biggest company of the world then head over to this page here and be a part of this movement.

We’re fewer than 30 people today, which means that everyone who joins now will have a big effect. Therefore, we take hiring very seriously. We’re looking for the key people who will help take Twitter to the next level and create a company culture that is successful and satisfying for years to come. We value talent, creativity, and a sense that anything is possible. We are well-funded and building a company to last.

Here are few glimpses of Twitter Office in San Francisco as photographed by Kohtzy

Twitter to Integrate The Discovery Engine Search

Twitter co -founder Biz Stone finally confirm it on Official Twitter Blog that they wish to integrate real time twitter search within twitter home page. They call it The Discovery Engine. There will be a new search feature in the sidebar on Twitter home page, when you do a search, you don’t go to another page; the relevant tweets instantly show up where you’d expect them to right on your home page where tweets love to be.

Interestingly to explain this biz refers to the original sketch which was formed in old fashioned way back in July 2008.

Twitter was initially started as stat.us and there is very exciting story behind it. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey explain it as:

On May 31st, 2000, I signed up with a new service called LiveJournal. I was living in the Sunshine Biscuit Factory in Oakland California and starting a company to dispatch couriers, taxis, and emergency services from the web. One night in July of that year I had an idea to make a more “live” LiveJournal. Real-time, up-to-date, from the road. Akin to updating your AIM status from wherever you are, and sharing it. For the next 5 years, I thought about this concept and tried to silently introduce it into my various projects. It slipped into my dispatch work. It slipped into my networks of medical devices. It slipped into an idea for a frictionless service market. It was everywhere I looked: a wonderful abstraction which was easy to implement and understand.

He made a sketch back in 2000 to explain how this service will look like. Here is that original Sketch, I guess twitter looks very much like this sketch made almost a decade ago.

Trouble With Twitters

Super News’s Animated Sketch Comic videos are always fun to see. Now they come up with this comic story about this young guy who struggle against the pressure to twitter his life away. Enjoy. hey by the way Follow me on Twitter.

I don’t mind followed by hundred and thousand of people over twitter and followthem in return.

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