If you’ve been reading Meta Fever for a descent amount of time, a couple of things may seem obvious to you. First off, we talk about tech news and online marketing relentlessly, unsparingly and excessively. You get the point. These topics include everything from Search Engine Optimization to tips on turning your blog into the [...]
If any brick and mortar company is getting creative during the Holiday season, the Mall of America tops the list. In a push to spur more holiday shopping (not that they needed it), the great Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota is giving its Twitter followers preferred parking spaces throughout the holiday shopping season. The [...]
Yep, you read correctly. As of Wednesday, Google has started displaying Promoted Tweets above organic listings aiming to bring in revenue from businesses trying to push a product or specific Twitter account. This is the first sighting of Promoted Tweets above Google SERP’s…however, the pact “with the devil” was made last October – with Twitter [...]
New rules passed by the Maryland Board of Elections last month, requiring campaigns to put disclosures on Facebook and Twitter profiles including display ads, came to a screeching halt by State Delagate Mike Smigiel. “I’m not sure what the purpose was of the new regulations or what their effect is going to be,” said Smigiel [...]
When Lebron James isn’t adding to his enemies list (i.e Dan Gilbert and the entire city of Cleaveland), the KingJames Twiiter and Facebook home shave managed to grow just as well. Yes, I’m back on The Decision kick. I figure hey….this thing went on for 762 days – might as well milk it for all [...]
What does Google, Twitter and The Library of Congress have in common? Besides all of them having access to massive amounts of information, they want to start archiving all of your communication on social networking sites. Essentially: You say it on twitter, archive it in LOC and search for it on Google. Now that we [...]
Not only does Twitter help you keep track of your latest lunch cravings or shopping rampages, but now it can be said the popular social networking tool saves lives. With users ranging from civilian volunteers and military personal, Twitter has played a large role in helping connect victims and survivors with family members around the [...]
Well, it looks like all of Sarah Palin and Ashton Kuther’s hard work has paid off. It’s been reported in the past few days, after signing deals with Microsoft and Google, Twitter is officially profitable. The two search giants reached combined agreements worth $25 million which will make all ofTwitter’s content searchable. According to investment [...]
You just Tweeted about a new post on your blog. It looks like it’s getting a little buzz, but there really isn’t a way to tell. Of course you can check the referring links with your favorite stat tracker, post a follow up tweet asking questions about the post…who really knows? Well, all that’s about [...]
Everyone seems to be on Twitter. Everyone wants a shorter URL. Everyone wants to supply that URL. Of course I’m using “everyone” in it’s extreme liberal sense…but with the rise of character limited communication services, there has been an increase in services creating the Twitter Worthy URL. If you’ve managed to not live under a [...]
So here I am a total Twitter newbie and I just crossed 500 twitter followers. To celebrate, I think I am going to get the t-shirt which says “I am kind of a big deal . . . on Twitter”. All this is fine and dandy, but what does it really mean? To be honest, [...]
You might have heard that Ashton Kutcher passed 1 million followers on Twitter. Oddly enough, when the news broke of this amazing accomplishment, the Ashton Kutcher Twitter following clan instantly exploded to 1.5 million followers. So naturally I wanted to see what the hubbub was about so I started to do some digging to find [...]
