Posts Tagged with ‘twitter’

Looking To Monetize Your Twitter Account? Here Are Some Applications for You

Svetlana Gladkova

As Twitter is growing more and more popular as time passes and new people arrive to the microblogging platform looking for a new expression tool and some of them learning to use Twitter for self-promotion or brand promotion as well, it is no wonder that there are other people that create their numerous applications using [...]

I Belong to the Nation with the World’s Most Engaged Social Networking Audience. So How Does It Feel?

Svetlana Gladkova

Yesterday the web measuring company comScore decided to publish the results of their study of the social networking field in Russia. Their research shows that Russia has the most engaged social networking audience in the world and I could not resist the temptation to share some thoughts as someone who lives and blogs on the [...]

OwlRead – a Google Reader for Twitter

Svetlana Gladkova

Are you happy with your Twitter client? If so, you probably should stick to it and don’t even read this post further because switching to a new application from something you are already comfortable with should take some serious advantages offered by the alternative. I would not say that OwlRead, the new Twitter client I [...]

Want To Do Something Good On Twitter? Chances Are You Won’t Manage.

Svetlana Gladkova

Some of you may be aware that today is the World Environment Day so we should probably try to pay more attention to green issues today than we usually do. I know that I myself is not that eco-friendly person as I keep forgetting to unplug my laptop for the night (and I guess the [...]

Twitter Is Everything, It Could Even Be A Source Of Extra Income For Spammers

Svetlana Gladkova

Twitter seems to be just about everywhere these days and every news publication seems to have a purpose to link Twitter to every news event they cover - related or actually not. And while Twitter is becoming increasingly popular, everyone seems to have realized that the power of using Twitter is in the number of [...]

Unpredictable Obstacles: When Your Localization Efforts Can Be Destroyed Instantly

Svetlana Gladkova

As a Russian living in Russia and doing business internationally, I am known for my strong belief in localization for internet products - both for startups and established web companies. Yet sometimes one realizes that even the best efforts can result in absolutely nothing because you can never predict everything about a country where you [...]

The Best Thing You Can Do By Following Someone On Twitter

Svetlana Gladkova

How many people do you follow on Twitter? To me the number is huge and I am still surprised to realize how many people I like to track on the web when looking at my Twitter timeline. But even if you only follow a hundred people or even less and have strict rules and principles [...]

Twicli – Yet Another Twitter Application for Photos But An Attractive One At That

Svetlana Gladkova

It does not look like web developers will ever get tired of building applications for Twitter: with a friendly and powerful API and huge popularity they seem to come up with new ideas for new applications pretty frequently.
Today a new application named Twicli is launched to combine Twitter and photos and even though the idea [...]

Twitter Is Huge? Yes. Twitter Is a Popular Marketing Tool? Probably no.

Svetlana Gladkova

Twitter sometimes looks like it has been here forever with everyone seemingly using it everywhere and for just about every purpose. And of course we have all seen various marketing and promotion techniques employed on Twitter as marketing and PR people rushed to Twitter to follow their target audiences and to deliver appropriate messages and [...]

So You Have an Opinion on Google Acquisition of Twitter? Who Cares?

Svetlana Gladkova

If there is one thing that I totally don’t understand about the blogosphere, it is our usual attitude that our voices can change everything - and easily. And while we have seen examples of good and even great things happening because of someone raising a voice in some part of the world on a small [...]