A Review of Twitter’s New Look

Twitter rolled out its new look today to the Internet and I must say it looks very impressive and the effort to make the entire system simpler is visible clearly. The new design looks organized, simple and rich in graphic and styling! The major achievement is in organizing everything you need right within your dashboard even without a single click.

The Top Navigation: The top navigation has just 3 simple tabs  - Home, Connect and Discover. These three tabs summarizes all thats required from a parent navigation by allowing you to connect and discover stuff from your Twitter account.

Widgetized Design: The new look is more widgetized and now it has become easier to spot stuff that you are looking for. The famous 140 characted new Tweet box has now become a simple widget box that makes it easy to type a quick Tweet from your sidebar.

FREE Social Media Icon Sets Download

Social media is ruling today’s internet! If you have a blog or an online business, the best method to publicize and find traffic flowing into your website is by using Social media to its potential (often know as Social media Optimization – SMO).

I feel look and feel is a really important design factor to leave a mark on your website visitor’s mind and today we will share a collection of free social media icons for download that could be useful for your Social media campaigns or use on your website. The icon set are free for use on your websites or projects and are available on 3 flexible sizes as well!

 How to Auto post from your WordPress Blog to FaceBook Fan Page 

We all know the importance of publicizing your Blog content on the social network and the best place to promote your blog is none other than the best social networking website – FaceBook. It could be quite a tedious task when you have to manually post each and every new blog post to your Facebook fan page and that is when this post could become helpful to you.

There are several plugins available on the internet that could do this for you, but when you want to bifurcate your web business from your personal Facebook account, the best method is to use an excellent Facebook application that can help you automate publishing your blog posts on to your Facebook fan page and keep the activity buzzing on your social space! The complete process can be automated with the help of an awesome free Facebook Application called as NetworkedBlogs which helps you to automatically post your blog articles as Facebook posts.

How to Use Twitter to Approach Big Brands

Lately I have been using Twitter quite frequently and have started to observe that the power of this micro blogging tool is Immense! Due to its viral nature of spreading information to all corners of the world, it is often feared and respected by Big Brands and Corporates.

The significance of Hash Tags: If you are a Tweep (Regular Twitter user) then you should be already knowing the importance of using hash tags. Even though a Tweet is limited to 140 characters, you will observe that Twitter users add keywords preceded with the”#” symbol. These hash tags play an important role in connecting Tweets based on the keyword under consideration.

Together with the message and hash tag keywords, tweets connect each other to build and form a patter to identify trending topics in the World. Hence users are capable of finding what topic is buzzing the most (trending) in their locality or niche.

How to Increase Twitter Followers Count

I guess you might be already aware of the fact that Twitter success is all about the number of Twitter followers you have on your account. I repeatedly find webmasters and internet marketing aspirants asking for a sure shot / quick fire method to help them to increase their twitter follower count. Well, In my opinion there are two fast methods to virally and practically improve your Twitter follower counts and they are:

How to use social networking SECURELY

Working on the Information security side of IT over the past 5 years, I wanted to make few comments from my experience on the major trends of exploits on social networking accounts.

I once read that a hacker was able to hack into 40 facebook user accounts in less than an hour while using wi-fi connection at an airport. We might not know exactly how its done, but believe me it’s a cake walk to hack into any social networking account through a wifi connection.