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Social Media Freak

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http://twitter.com/jordankasteler To add a bit of explanation here… Live at Pubcon Dallas there is a blackhat panel going on. Steven Plunkett is attempting to rank Giovanni.net for “social media freak” live during his session. It FAILed. This was to rank #1 instantly through use of a post and Twitter conversation. Follow the coverage on Twitter here: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=social+media+freak Me = #1 Steve Plunkett = 2nd page Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Social Media

Google Quickly Uses Twitter @anywhere on Follow Finder

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Google is definitely showing its all out support to Twitter. Aside from the Google Replay feature which lets you view past tweets related to your current Google search results, Google has also launched Google Follow Finder . Available right now on Google Labs, Google Follow Finder makes it easier to find and follow Twitter users which you may choose to follow. Yes, this is definitely different from those “autobots” that automatically makes you follow people whenever they follow you unless you made it a prerequisite to have your approval first before following people on Twitter. Using Google Follow Finder, you simply need to enter your Twitter account and the online tool will give you other Twitter members who are not yet in your following list. It’s now then up to you whether you will follow them or not. It also works if you enter other people’s Twitter account.  You can do all this without  visiting your account on Twitter.com. Google Follow Finder utilizes Twitter’s new @anywhere frameworks which was just announced today at the Chirp conference for Twitter developers. Twitter’s @anywhere makes it easy to add Twitter functionality to any websites or blogs. So now at least, the next time you want to find people to follow on Twitter, you’d have a chance to choose which one are interesting and which one are not. Incidentally, if you are not yet following me on Twitter, you can add me up – @aczafra. You might find my “auto tweets” quite interesting. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Quickly Uses Twitter @anywhere on Follow

Google Now Lets You Replay Popular Tweets

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Want to go back in time and read those famous tweets that were indexed by Google? Well, actually Google did not just index those tweets, it has in fact archived them and are now giving you the chance to read those tweets again via Google search. So, starting today, you can now zoom in to any point in time and replay what people have posted on Twitter about various topics that hit the headlines at some point in time.  This will be featured on the “Show Options” on Google search results page. Once you’ve click this option, you will have to select “Updates.” Once you’ve selected that, Google will then display the all familiar latest and greatest Twitter updates that it has indexed. On top of those tweets is a new chart showing year, month or day categories.  You can then select any particular point in that calendar and Google will display the tweets that were posted during that period. What’s cool about that chart is that it also gives you the relative volume of tweet on a particular subject on a specific date. This is particularly  useful if you want to review what has happened in the past and how people on Twitter reacted to those events. This replay feature will be gradually roll out globally in the coming days. In the meantime, if you want to try it out, Google provided this special link . Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Now Lets You Replay Popular

Suddenly Twitter Has a Business Model, Tweet Ads

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Twitter is about to unveil something that it hopes will finally answer the grandstanding question of whether Twitter can actually make money, and if yes – how?  The new Twitter business model will rely on “ promoted tweets ,” which will put ads on Twitter’s search results and user feeds on Twitter.com as well as third-party Twitter clients later. So, if you’re using TweetDeck and other mobile and desktop Twitter apps, expect to see some ads pop out along side tweets you monitor daily. Twitter’s “promoted ads” will first appear only on searches that were conducted on its website. When this ad system is rolled in a few  hours from now, expect a single ad appearing at the top of a search you conducted on Twitter.  This ad takes the form of an ordinary tweet so be careful when retweeting or replying back as you may not notice that a tweet is coming from Twitter’s ad model. For its initial run, Twitter’s promoted tweets got Starbucks,  Bravoa nd Virgin America. All these companies are heavy Twitter user and use the service as their communication medium “We wanted to do something that just enhances the conversation that companies are already having with their customers on Twitter,” said Twitter Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo. So, what’s your take on this? Can Twitter manage to pull one off and finally become a money generating machine? Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Suddenly Twitter Has a Business Model, Tweet

Paid Internet Search Inventor Applies the Same Model to Twitter

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From the Idealab, the same guys who invented the paid internet search model comes a new startup called Tweetup . TweetUp hopes to make Twitter more relevant for everyone and finally put a stop to the notion that Twitter is all about noise. It’s the fastest and easiest way to find the best tweets and tweeters as well as a reliable way of finding targetted Twitter followers. Basically, what TweetUp does is to boost tweeters on any topic to the top of search results – that is raising these relevant and useful tweets above the usual Twitter noise. TweetUp will also give these important and targetted tweets persistence against the backdrop of millions of  tweets posted every minute. To carry out its tasks and services, TweetUp has built an algorithm that assesses the quality, relevance, and influence of tweets and tweeters.  It then combines selected tweets with a bid-based marketplace. TweetUp is composed of  three parts – the destination site, third party widgets and the advertiser product. The destination site ranks Twitter results by time and via an algorithm to determine which of them should go higher.  TweetUp splits revenue from ads 50/50. Potential TweetUp advertisers can enter their bids via impressions, new follower or click through to an end URL. If you want to find ways of promoting your tweets on search engine results, you may want to sign up at TweetUp. They are currently giving away $100 credit towards ads. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Paid Internet Search Inventor Applies the Same Model to