Twitter Over Capacity Issues Bring Impressive Coverage

The recent Over Capacity issues which Twitter is experiencing is gaining a marked amount of buzz in Social Media and Internet Marketing circles. So it got me to thinking about the implications.

Twitter has not seen such a problem with capacity issues since its hockey stick growth in the late spring and early summer of 2009. If you read their blog, you will see that they are going through some upgrades and making changes to their services which may be contributing to the problem. What has really caught my attention, however, is the amount of chatter this has created across the web.

I went to log in to Twitter this morning and got the fail whale once again. This prompted a text search of the term “Twitter Over Capacity” which I narrowed to the past 24 hours. This search brought up over 35,000 results!!

They do say that even bad press is good press, so Twitter is definitely getting some serious web time based on this newest capacity issue.

I’m not saaying that the best way to gain popularity (I’m thinking Twitter doesn’t need the popularity right now) is to piss off your users, but it is a good example of how people love to spread bad information much more rapidly than good.

Hopefully, they will be back to normal soon and I am looking forward to some improvements to my experience as a result. I just wanted to give a new spin on the latest issues and provide the up side!

Happy Tweeting.

Twitter Tutorial II

Twitter Tutorial I

QUICK TIP – Twitter – ReTweet Please?

Do you Tweet? Do you like to get your Tweet ReTweeted?

I do! It’s like that old shampoo commercial “…and she told two friends, and she told two friends, and so on, and so on…” Ok, I’m totally dating myself! =)

Here are a few handy tips I learned for tweeting information what I would like ReTweeted.

1. Put your link at the front – When you message gets retweeted the  retweet will have an ‘RT’ and then the ReTweeter’s Twitter ID.  (ex. RT @Twitternamehere…[YOUR ORIGINAL TWEET] )  If your link is at the end it might get removed in order to fit the retweet into the 140 character space.

2. Keep your message under 120 Characters (Twitter allows 140) – This will allow the (RT @Twitternamehere) at the beginning without loosing any of your message.

3. Follow ReTweeting Twitter users such as @RTsweets, @_rtweet, etc – Some will auto retweet when you note the word ‘ReTweet’ in your message.

That’s it for now!  Hope you enjoy these tips.

JUST DO IT! 3 Quick Things Newbies Can Do Right Now

Got 15 Minutes? (No I can’t save you 15% on car insurance).   What I can do is get you started on setting up some necessary Internet Business accounts that you will need or may want to use.

Here are three actions you can do take right now to get moving along.

1. Set Up Two (2) Email Accounts – Unless you live under a rock the term SPAM is a household word and a bad one at that. When you get started in Internet Business there will be MANY accounts, forms, and email lists that you will be putting your email address into. It just becomes part of the daily MO of Internet Business. Doing this, however, can potentially turn your email Inbox to a spam collection receptacle. Trust me when I say that it will only take a few times before filtering through all that junk to find 1 important email is going to drive you nuts! My solution to this has been to maintain two email accounts. Use one account as the account you use for signing up to anything you come across and might be interested in (blogs, Internet Marketing products, account sign ups, etc). We’ll call this the bad and catchall account. You will begin to see just how quickly this will fill up with daily if not hourly emails. Use a second account as your main or good email account. This would be the account you will provide for very important business emails and select information requests. Be very selective on where you input this email address and be sure to unsubscribe to anything you don’t want in there as soon as you see them appear. Keep in mind that anything you send to the bad email account can always be moved to the good account later by simply updating your email address for that particular product or person.

2. Set Up A Twitter Account – In less than 5 minutes (less customization) you can be up and running on one of the largest social networking sites on the planet. Twitter has grown to become a necessity in Social Networking and a great Internet Marketing tool (plus it is a lot of fun). I strongly suggest opening an account. You will want it later. I would definitely give some thought to branding here if that is your end game. You may want to use your own name or a brand name you may be thinking of using in the future. Once you start to gain a following you will be very reluctant to scrap the account for a ‘better’ name. Once you get set up take some time to look around and watch. Don’t start ‘tweeting’ until you have an idea of how the platform works and is being used by other Internet Business Marketers. There is a definite etiquette here and you want to be aware of the dos and don’ts.

3. Open and EZineArticles account – If your plan on diving into Article Marketing or just want to populate your site or blog with content, EZineArticles will become a staple. The set up is quick and pretty much painless. I love the site and have found many hidden tidbits written by internet gurus before they were gurus. I think it is worth the few minutes to set it up.

So there you have three quick actions you can take right now to get you on your way. So go on now…get moving!

Thanks for listening!