Capitol Police Eyes React to Ludic Onion Tweets

The Onion’s Twitter stream suffered from an expected spate of unpopularity today, which was unexpected even considering its eponymous etiology. The cause of the stink? The strong-arming of Washington, D.C. police into investigating successive “Breaking News” tweets made by the satirical newspaper. The tweets, hashtagged #CongressHostage, asserted that members of Congress were demanding $12 trillion

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Facebook Introduces Subscribe Button

If you haven’t noticed already, Facebook has added to its suite of features the Subscribe button, a new way for users to filter exactly what they see in their News Feed. Mainly geared toward people with a lot of friends, the new tool allows users to select the information they see from friends in the

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Facebook announces new changes, including Timeline

Today at Facebook F8 conference, which is a conference held by Facebook for developers, Mark Zuckerberg and gang showed off some new upcoing features of facebook, including something called a Timeline and also features for Music and Movies. The conference was held in San Franciscio with around 2000 attendees. The Timeline feature will basically provide

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Importance of keywords in promoting a website

The success of your internet marketing strategy will depend greatly on the use of keywords. People use keywords when searching for information and will look at a website only when they see the keyword. Therefore in order to increase traffic to your website what must you consider when using keywords?

Do research to find suitable keywords for your website; you can use Google Keyword Tool for this, and then determine the level of competition and average number of searches for a keyword. Depending on this decide on the keywords you want to target. Use specific keywords to receive more targeted traffic to your site.

To accurately describe your website use multiple keywords and use them throughout the content of the web page, articles or blog posts. Use them on headings, on the page title and domain name.

Use keywords on your advertisements for your website as people will look at adverts with the keywords and will give the potential customers an idea of what you are selling.

Monitor the number of visitors to the website by using a tool like Google Analytics and see what keywords they use. Change the keywords if they are not bringing in sufficient traffic.

Twitter’s Coattails Extend With Arrival of Paid Political Ads

Everybody knows that despite this year’s Weiner scandal, Twitter is still really big with politicians as it is with all the usual talking heads — apparently 80 percent of Congress tweets. Twitter honchos have undoubtedly known as much for a while, and that’s why it makes so much sense for them to open up their

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Backlash to Facebook’s Awesome Timeline

Around the start of summer, Facebook brass kept commenting about a “something awesome” that would soon be unveiled. Well, as of yesterday everybody knows what the social network’s most awe-inspiring launch to date is: the FB Timeline. It seemed media watchers couldn’t keep pace with the torrent of positive feelings and thoughts that were too

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You Are Not a Bot, So Don’t Tweet Like One

Ever think back to that time you had finally settled on a winning first tweet for your long-before opened Twitter account but when you tried to log in to post you realized that your account had been suspended? What was that? you asked then, before briskly deciding on another sparkling and witty Twitter handle. Having

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Google+ Now Available to All

Vic Gundotra, Google’s senior vice president of engineering, today took to the company’s official blog to post about Google+’s newest added features, numbered 92-100, respectively. The biggest news out of his rather longish list was really the 100th: as of now, anybody who wants one can sign up for a Google+ account, that’s with or

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Facebook Reigns In its Constant Emailing with Notification Bundles

Facebook is now getting its feet wet with the lukewarm waters of bundled emails. Perhaps not especially desirous of hearing the grumbling that LinkedIn can’t seem to escape, about swamped inboxes with unread company notifications, Facebook has decided to take action on the matter. So, instead of hoping that its over 700 million users start

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Facebook’s IPO Not Until Late 2012?

This week the Financial Times reported that Facebook’s will not have its initial public offering until late 2012. The FT cited sources close to the company in the report for the scoop, but all that was obtained from Larry Yu, Facebook’s spokesperson, was: “As is our typical practice, we just don’t get into speculation about

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