11 Proven Ways to Increase Your Twitter Followers

When something is said to be proven, it helps others readily. These are easy, tested-and-proven ways to increase your Twitter followers. Anything achieved in a short period of time demands great respect. Twitter has indeed grown from a startup which was about status updates to a medium that has revolutionized the way social networking is done. But instant success in social networking brings with it the threat of bots. When you try hard to increase your followers you can be scammed by bots....

DDOS Assault: Twitter took 2 days for recovery. Facebook woke up in a day. Why?

In what popular blogs called the United States' “close-to-collapsing-moment”, Twitter went down for 2 days suffering a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDOS). Rival Facebook and popular site LiveJournal too suffered a DOS assault the same day (Thursday). While Facebook and LiveJournal only limped throughout the day, Twitter was completely down, displaying an error message when accessed. Even Twitter applications Tweetdeck, Seesmic, Power Twitter etc. remained unusable for a long...

11 Simple Twitter secrets revealed

Apart from being a site for knowledge sharing and thought sharing, Twitter has become good traffic source for people conscious about branding and advertisement. That is the reason the whole world is using Twitter. Here are 11 simple Twitter secrets which will help you establish your brand when you are using Twitter for branding. 1. Be simple to identify yourself – Your profile should be easy to remember. It is better if you have your company name or the name of the product/service as your...

Wikipedia Down Today: Is It A Beginning?

Wikipedia was down today for quite some time and was displaying an error message stating that “Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties”. Refer to the screen shot below! Wikipedia has always been a rich source of information for all the people around the world and it nearly attracts 132,730,000 users / month. Have you ever heard Wikipedia being down before? Is it a beginning of an end or a great episode coming to an end in World Wide Web? Wikipedia has been a great place...

5 best ways in which Enterprises can use Social Media to build business

Ecademy's Chairman Thomas Power says people come to the Social Media for two basic reasons – 1) to collect people 2) to collect knowledge. True. People come to the Social Media to know more people and to gather more information. Just give them that, you rule the Social Media world. Companies like Dell, Zappos, JetBlue and a few others have perfectly executed this Social Media formula. However, if you look closely, these companies sell directly to customers and hence whatever they do or say...