Are Twitter Contests Winners for Businesses?

A few days ago, I heard some friends talking about trending topics on Twitter and they said they were surprised that #moonfruit had made it to a top spot.  No one had ever heard of it, and it seemed that it was the result of a contest in which a Macbook Pro was being given away.

TweetFunnel Enhancements for July 19, 2009

We’d like to thank our users for all their feedback via phone, email and UserVoice.  We have released a number of changes to TweetFunnel based on this feedback.

Twitter for Restaurants

Easy and free, Twitter makes for a delicious tool for restaurant marketing

The biggest complaint about Twitter is people say that many of the postings are about the banality of daily life, like what you had for lunch.  Well, if people are talking about their meals on Twitter, doesn’t it make sense for restaurants to have a presence there?  In this post you’ll find a compilation of tips for restaurants marketing on Twitter.

Twitter Basics

When you joined Twitter for your organization, you may have noticed that there is a lot of lingo associated with Twitterverse.  There are plenty of fun, made up words like tweeple and twitterati, but there are also some key words and phrases that are vital to understanding the community.  Below you’ll find these along with their definitions.

3 Things That Corporate Twitterers Should Never Do

Twitter is a fluid community where almost anything goes.  However, there are a few rules of thumb I have learned as a corporate Twitterer.  Here they are:

Marketing with Twitter – Stefanie Nelson of Dell

In a video recorded and produced by TweetFunnel’s new media associates at GuruTube, Dell marketing executive Stefanie Nelson advises on some approaches for companies that want to use Twitter for marketing.