The makers of the popular sharing widget, AddThis, released a report of the top 10 most shared web pages in 2010. The data was calculated based on the number of shares recorded using the widget installed in nearly 7 million websites. Among the list were videos, news articles, and photos.
How to Display Your Favorite Tweets on Your WordPress Blog
Many blogs and websites these days display the author’s latest tweets using a variety of methods including widgets, Javascript, and the Twitter API. But how about your favorite tweets?
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How to Analyze Social Media Traffic in Google Analytics
Despite being one of the most popular web analytics software available, Google Analytics is not without its flaws. For instance, there is no clear-cut way for users to measure the influence of social media on their website’s traffic.
Sure, Analytics helps break down traffic sources into three primary categories: direct, search, and referral. The referral data includes social traffic like Twitter and Facebook but isn’t easily discernible, since it is combined with traffic sources from non social media sites as well. Luckily, there is a way do easily analyze social media traffic using custom segments.
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Top 10 Most Retweeted Tweets in 2010
Three tweets about Justin Bieber(sigh), one shared link, eight celebrities, and one Twitter user without a million followers…all culminating in this year’s most retweeted tweets. Sadly, Twitter does not provide actual total counts extending beyond 100+.
Integrate Twitter's @Anywhere Service To Your Website
Earlier this year, Twitter released their @Anywhere service to allow developers and website owners integrate the Twitter platform onto their websites. For example, you can link Twitter usernames to Hovercards that display the user’s Twitter account seamlessly on your website. Check out the great tutorial by Net Tuts+.
SimplyTweet 3: Four Promo Codes Up For Grabs
Contest is closed. Here are the four winners: @sangwooksohn,@a_lunatic,@KieranEves,
Sang. All four winners will be notified either via direct message on Twitter or by email
As a follow up to 3 Twitter iPhone Apps You Will Love and Use Everyday, Hack Social Media is pleased to announce a giveaway for one of the featured Twitter apps, SimplyTweet 3.
If you like to enter for a chance to win, here are 2 ways to do so:
- Retweet the following message on Twitter:
- Comment on this blog post explaining why you want to win a copy of SimplyTweet. Remember to leave a valid email address or I will not be able to contact you.
Just entered a contest to win 1 of 4 copies of SimplyTweet 3 for iPhone, courtesy of @tonykhue and @simplytweet: http://bit.ly/ezbPFT
Click here to tweet this message for a chance to win!
I also suggest that you follow me on Twitter @tonykhue so in the event that you are chosen, I will be able to easily DM you right away.
Yep, that’s it! It’s that easy. This contest will run for one week starting today and ends on January 6th, 2011. Holy cow! That’s next week/year!
3 Twitter iPhone Apps You Will Love and Use Everyday
- Twitterriffic
Recently, Twitterrific was updated to version 3, and with it a bare-bones version took its place. At first, I was not impressed with the new version, finding that a lot of features seemed to be removed or simply forsaken. The interface was made much more minimalistic which drove me nuts since I had grown so accustomed to its predecessor.
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Threadless Twitter T-Shirts
If you’ve never heard about Threadless, today’s your lucky day. Threadless is a widely-popular online store that sells custom t-shirts. Every newly printed t-shirt is decided by the community of users who vote for new designs that they like. This community-based approach has led to 10 prosperous years along with a very enthusiastic body of followers.
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Does social strategy need to come before tactics?
That’s the question Lee Odden of TopRank Blog posed to over 40 well-known marketing experts including Jay Baer, Guy Kawasaki, and Scott Monty. Overall, most agreed that a clearly defined strategy trumps tactics. For example, Steve Bendt explains:
Tactics don’t take into account the customer need. They typically center around “doing something viral” or “doing social” or “creating a community.” Good social strategy forces you to understand and realize that if you don’t solve a real customer need with your actions, you’re already forgotten.
In other words, a good marketing strategy boils down to the core principles: understand who your customer is, deliver a product or service that meets customer’s needs, and identify areas to improve upon.
The Secret Sauce
Every successful product is built upon an infrastructure I like to call “the secret sauce.” It’s that intangible moment a new user experiences when using a product for the very first time.
Let’s take Facebook for example. When you first create a profile, Facebook helps you connect with your friends and family, and as we all know, Facebook is nothing without its community of users.
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