The World According to Tim Skipper

I just read a fascinating article on The Science of ReTweets, by Dan Zarella on mashable.com. Dan breaks down what makes some Twitter Tweets more ReTweetable than others. It’s a really interesting insight into the minds of Twitterers, and I believe is very useful information for anyone considering Twitter as a marketing tool.
Check it out.

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Since it’s launch in March 2006, Twitter has taken the micro blogging world by storm, citing such high profile celebreties as Stephen Fry, Barack Obama, Jonathan Ross and Demi Moore among it’s frequent users.
Twitter is a great networking tool, and I think has great marketing potential too, although in a recent report on TechCrunch it […]

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I’ve been an Amazon affiliate (or rather Amazon Associate as they like to call us) for nearly three years and I’ve done no more than “ok” out of it. However one type of link available - context links - have proven to be a massive waste of time.
I’ve earned £0.86p.
It’s not hard to see […]

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In his PC Magazine article SEO Fiascoes: The Trouble With Search Engine Optimization, John C. Dvorak postulates that long URLs are detrimental to SEO, despite what everyone else seems to be saying.
He conducts an experiment on his own 1.2 million page views per month blog by changing existing URLs to the long version, and sees […]

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Since I got my iPhone I’ve been really enjoying its slick user interface and ease of web browsing, but I started to notice that Safari was for some web sites loading pages very slowly. In fact for some web sites Safari would not load pages at all.
I found that if I switched WiFi off I […]

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