Lately I am noticing a trend where it relates to the “Tweeted” Twitter content affects on a Blog. Recently I decided to Tweet various content types as they relate to Rageburner. Since the concept of Rageburner covers several topics I wanted to supplement Blog content with articles on Twitter via links or “tweets”. By supplement I mean distribute content on Twitter that could potentially have been promoted as an article on Rageburner.

It worked by increasing Twitter followers but not site traffic on Rageburner. Sure new followers visit Rageburner, but do they come back consistently to see what Today’s “Rant or Rage” might be? Rageburner’s presence on Twitter far exceeds its Blog readers which leads us to question the priority of each. Do you tweet to increase followers or promote a Blog on Twitter to increase subscribers?

At one point I heavily promoted Rageburner content on Twitter and received alot of negative email and DM responses. Rightfully so I felt it became a self promotion rather than social focus. Twitter is about sharing, assisting others and building relationships. Therefore I only publish a couple Rageburner articles daily and tweet content received daily by Rageburner subscribers.

The result showed that relationships and connections on Twitter far exceed your blog’s need for promotion. Staying current and focused on your Twitter content provides one of many legs for blog traffic but should not be considered its primary source. If an author or subscriber disagrees, please provide data or comment otherwise.

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The high Steaks poker Game Has begun; Hollywood watches and waits. As Bit Torrent takes on Apple in a battle for your video downloads.

Earlier this year Apple pushes for and gets removal of DRM (digital rights management) from music and video downloads on Itunes. Just as Bit Torrent goes head to head with Itunes on video downloads.

In February Bit Torrent Inc, the internet company founded by Bram Cohen opened it’s new entertainment web site.

For those who don’t know about Bit Torrent yet, it is a protocol, that can be used free of charge to download large files quickly over the internet using very little band width, It was invented by Bram Cohen.

Last year Cohen’s company entered into agreements with several movie companies among them Paramount, Warner Brothers, MGM,20th Century Fox and MTV networks. This was the ground work for them to build their business model for a broad market video download service. MTV is a key company because of it’s market demographics.

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The following video research by Sociologist Liz Pullen strikes up great conversation and socialistic viewpoints on a wide variety of Twitter Users.  500 Twitter user rankings were used based on “following” counts in determing the top user involvement in the video.  Liz Pullen analyzed behaviors of new users and twitter usage from personnel to business practicalities.  It creates an inciteful world of understanding while exploring the vast realm of Twitter.

1) Do new users understand how powerfule Twitter really is?
2) Do users think of Twitter as a only a social space?
3) Should new users use the suggested user list?
4) Should Twitter be used as a social, information networking or micro-blogging medium?

Pullen’s topics covered include Professional, Race & Age categories in these top usage accounts.  Her accreditations alone provide a welcome explanation for non-technical users and the early adoption of Twitter.

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Twitmatic is simply one of the best twitter apps I have found to date and left me absolutely satisfied following a simple search query. I often like to research and develop my blog posts by looking and listening to video and trending discussions from Twitter. I often find it hard to search conversations and tweets from thousands of followers and require organization. Quite simply Twitmatic gives me what I need, when I need it most. Thousands of video links provided via tweets, playable within a simple interface and easily managed.

Below is a quick search I use daily for tracking the latest iPhone and Twitter Tweets  including a general News category.

What I found fascinating is that clicking through several links takes a minimal amount of time and all from within the same screen.  You will also find a real-time stat tally at the top of screen  indicating new video links since your last search.   Its great to search a current topic or late breaking story within moments vs. scanning multiple online news channels.  I found it to be very fast and efficient with ongoing timely improvements.  Finally, be sure and click through some of the Top Trending tags found to the left as demonstrated above.

New features are listed below found in the most recent release version 2 of Twitmatic:

• Users can now login to Twitmatic with their Twitter credentials, allowing them to follow/unfollow people without leaving Twitmatic, as well as Favorite a Tweet/video and access it from the Twitter Favorites list later.
• Users can now input a search term into Twitmatic, which pulls all back videos for them based on the search. One of the best things about Twitmatic is that the more people search, the better the index will be and the faster the results.
• If logged into Twitmatic with their Twitter credentials, users can save their searches as channels on a new left-hand navigation pane and come back to them in the future.
• Twitmatic constantly checks for new video results based on the channel the users is viewing; when new results come in, the user is notified via a message on the page and can simply refresh to see the new videos.
• A Video View and a List View, giving the user choice in how they want to see and respond to incoming tweets. And yes, users can now Reply to tweets in Twitmatic.
• Twitmatic now has a Back button that allows users to review videos they’ve already seen in the current session.

Be sure and follow Twitmatic on Twitter for the latest comments and updates.

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