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Twitter Retweet Contests: Viral Marketing or Social Media Spam?

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In Featured, Web Development

December 22, 2009

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Those of us who eat, sleep (and occasionally — oh nevermind) on Twitter have noticed an increase in the Twitter “RT Contests” being promoted by companies in an effort to leverage folks who want free shwag to whore out their promotion.

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Twitter Gets Down to Business

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In Featured, Geek Life

December 15, 2009

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Twitter has taken the first steps of what will no doubt be a long journey towards providing more native support for businesses using their micro-blogging platform by introducing the new (beta) Contributors feature.

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RSS SNAFU

By snipe

In Misc

December 14, 2009

3 Min read

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Hey, just a quick note to apologize if I’ve flooded your RSS feed reader with older posts that pretended to be new today. I was trying to set my feeds to show the entire story instead of the short excerpt they currently display in RSS readers, but ran into a bit of an issue.

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