On September 10, 2009 Twitter changed its terms of service and is now allowing for advertisements on its platform. Twitter has not said what types of available ad units it might offer, but of course this leaves the door wide open for a range of possibilities. Read the rest of this entry

For everybody that has a twitter account — obtaining followers in seeking out the people or organizations that you want to follow was a difficult chore up until this year. Twittgeek has come onto the scene and allowed twitter users to help you automatically follow fellow geeks based on keywords that you insert into their database. Twittgeek uses twitter is login information and gives you access each day to seek out as many as 200 followers based on a particular tag or keyword.

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Social media has transformed many aspects of business communications using such tools as podcasting, video casting, online communities, and blogging. Using online distribution services and social media communities like Facebook, BeBo, Hi5, etc., the standard one-page press release of yesterday has become a more powerful tool than ever. Read the rest of this entry