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Twitter Shortcuts

I found this list of twitter shortcuts in the twitter help section. These are great to know whether you use twitter in the browser, a computer application or on your mobile phone. These shortcuts will save you time.

@username + message

directs a twitter at another person, and causes your twitter to save in their “replies” tab.
Example: @meangrape I love that song too!

D username + message

sends a person a private message that goes to their device, and saves in their web archive.
Example: d krissy want to pick a Jamba Juice for me while you’re there?

WHOIS username

retrieves the profile information for any public user on Twitter.
Example: whois jack

GET username

retrieves the latest Twitter update posted by the person.
Example: get goldman

NUDGE username

reminds a friend to update by asking what they’re doing on your behalf.
Example: nudge biz

FAV username

marks a person’s last twitter as a favorite. (hint: reply to any update
with FAV to mark it as a favorite if you’re receiving it in real time)
Example: fav al3x

STATS

this command returns your number of followers, how many people you’re following, and your bio information.

INVITE phone number

will send an SMS invite to a friend’s mobile phone.
Example: Invite 415 555 1212

1Jul2009 | Brian | 0 comments | Continued

StockTwits Real Time Investor Chat

A service I just found for Twitter and those that love to invest and trade is called StockTwits. New services built around Twitter appear daily. Many would ask why use Twitter in the first place, and it appears that one answer is to think of it as a platform. Companies and individuals like StockTwits are using it as such.

Here is how they explain their service:

StockTwits is an open, community-powered investment idea and information service. You can think of it as Bloomberg for the little guy and gal. Eavesdrop on what traders and investors are talking about RIGHT NOW or contribute to the conversation and build your reputation and following as a savvy market wizard.

You can follow others, as you normally would in twitter, and follow specific stock tweets as a $ precedes the stock ticker. For example $EBAY. If you would like to post a general comment, not about a specific stock, you simple add a space and two $$ at the end of your tweet. For example Today’s market volume is extremely low, any ideas why? $$.

They also have 5 predefined streams for discussions. Take a look at StockTtwits.com if you enjoy the investing world and would love to have real time discussions as you make your millions day trading in the quiet of your own home, now you have a community to chat with in real time.

See StockTwits

17Apr2009 | Brian | 0 comments | Continued

Twitter is the Fastest Growing Social Network Site in 2008

According to Nielsens blog, Twitter had the largest growth rate of the top social network sites in 2008.

Sample Size
To be fair to the others on the list, Nielsen did mark both Twitter and Ning with an asterik stating that these two sites do not meet the minimum sample size standards which means their measures of these two can fluctuate greatly month to month.

Top Growth Social Networks
Other growth social network sites were Tagged, Ning, LinkedIn, Last.fm, Facebook and others. It is interesting that Twitter is considered a social network. I am not sure what their definition of a social network is, but I am guessing since you can follow others it meets their criteria, as opposed to a micro-blog.

19Dec2008 | Brian | 0 comments | Continued