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A unique perspective of the Web and social media...

February 17, 2010

10 Tips to Ensure That You’re NOT A Social Media Sucker!

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others.  You won’t have time to make them all yourself“.  ~Alfred Sheinwold

Mistake

If only we, for once, actually took the time to understand the value of this quote, most of us wouldn’t have gone through most of the crap we had to deal with, whether on a personal level or business wise! But we are humans and we are stubborn!

My mother knew better than to try to teach me from her mistakes, however, I still have faith in you, my readers, and in the fact that you will trust me enough to learn from my own experience on social media venues as to not commit the same mistakes I did!

Top 10 Tips You Should Follow When Using Social Media!

Are you ready for this? Here we go..

1. Culturize!

Being culturally aware and sensitive is very important when using one or multiple social media platforms or venues. Cultural ignorance is highly destructive in your relationships with the communities you are trying to be a part of!

2. Emphasize!

When active inside a realm as impersonal as social media, it is very important for you to be able to emphasize any point you are trying to make in order not to be misunderstood. No one can hear the tone of your voice or see your body language so your words are your weapon and your executor!

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January 2, 2010

25 Best 2009 Social Media Jokes, Clips & Cartoons!

Happy New Year!

To ease you into 2010 with a smile, Thoughtpick presents you with the fifth special episode (1, 2, 3, 4) of top 25 social media jokes, clips and cartoons!

Use the comments below to let us know your favorite!

Leaving Twitter by Toondoo.com

Leaving Twitter by Toondoo.com

Recession hits Social Media

Recession hits Social Media

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December 18, 2009

10 Tweeps Who Will [fill-in-the-blank] Your Life… With Inspiration!

There are a bunch of people on Twitter talking about everything and anything, nonetheless, we all need our constant supply of inspiration! So, in our unending service to humanity, and as a follow up to our top 10 funny tweeps post, we would like to share with you the top 10 inspiring tweeps who you must follow on your Twitter account.

These are people who perfected the art of a 140 character inspiration, and are able to bring value to your life with simple, short “single” liners.

In no particular order…

Dr. Marcia Sirota (@rcinstitute)

Biography: Psychiatrist, author and creator of the Ruthless Compassion movement.
Inspiration worth sharing…

“For the holidays, we don’t need more presents; we need more being present.”

Real love is greater than the sum of its parts.

Dr. Marcia tweeting inspiring lines about love...

Dr. Marcia tweeting inspiring lines about love...

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December 2, 2009

Tweepi Gets New Features: Manage Your Twitter Followers with Stats

When we first started Thoughtpick earlier this year, we had so many ideas for simple web applications that would make a difference and add value to all web users alike. Besides this blog, which has been our main – successful -communication tool, we had the challenge of picking up one of our many ideas to develop and launch as Thoughtpick’s first product.

The importance of Twitter paved the way for Tweepi

Tweepi Logo

Tweepi Logo

Our realization of the importance of Twitter for marketing and communication came naturally and instantly thus we opted to build up a Twitter community of tweeps who share the same interests – social media and web applications -.  Building a Twitter community is not as simple as it sounds to be, we tried using the available Twitter management tools at that time first, including Flash Tweet, Twitter Karma, and Tweet Later, and in no time we realized that we need something different, something that is simple, fast, and more efficient. We identified our needs, brainstormed our ideas, and came up with Tweepi!

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September 2, 2009

Username: @xadultfinder – Action: Unfollow! More Twitter Tips…

Apart for the Twitter avatar and background, what would influence your choice of people to follow on Twitter? How many Twitter users have you unfollowed due to their user names? What is the best method for companies to benefit from Twitter user names?

So what’s all the fuss about?

“No one cares anyway”… Right? Wrong! Take a look at the following comments:

@Kurd said “I have blocked people before based solely on their avatar or name, if it was offensive enough. Or if I’m following someone with, say, a puppy avatar with the user name “ILoveLife” but at some point they’ve changed their avatar and name to a spread-eagle model named “SexFrosting.”

Lois Arnando added, “Rather than background, I’m more concerned with the user name.”

I’m sure many of you out there would agree to what these two gentlemen had to say, and I’m 100% percent certain that you’ll have one story or another about bad or annoying experiences with at least one of your followers’ user names!

First Impression Matters :)

First Impression Matters...

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July 27, 2009

How To: 5 Top Methods & Applications to Reduce Twitter Spam!

How much of Twitter’s trending topics are polluted by spam? How many Twitter verified accounts are there? Have you ever thought of reaching Twitter utopia: a spam-free Twitter where information and knowledge sharing are the main purposes for using Twitter? Is Twitter doing enough to protect us from spam? Would you like to find all the top 5 solutions to cutting down on Twitter spam in one place?

No Spam!

No Spam!

Thoughtpick is here to save the day!

While reading the post about Twitter closing down thousands of spam accounts, I found that it would be interesting and very beneficial if I researched the web to present you with the top 5 methods and applications which could help Twitter users cut down on incoming spam and better enjoy their overall Twitter experience.

  1. Manual Selection: This method might be fun at the beginning yet could become a bit overwhelming especially to those following thousands of tweeps. Basically, this method entails that you monitor the activity, profile, links and tweets of those you are following and manually unfollow and block those who seem to be spammers rather than true tweeps. Things you should be well aware of when manually following and unfollowing tweeps:
    • Be ware of suspicious-looking shortened URLS; these could be links to viruses, pornography, trojans or spam. For example, if you see the same URL with 10 different descriptions!
    • Be careful of trending topics; spammers use those with a combination of hashtags so they would show up more often on Twitter search,
    • Be ware of fake followers; followers who will not RT you or provide you with valuable information, instead, they use their Twitter account to send our promotions to sell their services.
    • Know who you follow before you follow them and unfollow and block anyone who seems to be a spammer immediately.
  2. Tweepi.com: A new application, still in beta, for Twitter users which allows you to cleanup spam users using numbers that are able to reveal bots through various ratios such as number of tweets vs. number of RTs and the number of links per tweets. So if you’re following a few thousand people on Twitter and you noticed that many of them do not engage in conversations, never retweet anybody, or simply just ramble about nonsense stuff all day long (no links to useful content whatsoever!), Tweepi is your answer!

    Tweepi.com's Cleanup to find and unfollow Twitter spammers

    Tweepi.com's Cleanup to find and unfollow Twitter spammers

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