You read about how Twitter is the next big thing on the internet. Blog gurus rave about

how their websites were choked with traffic as their blog articles got retweeted. You spend a few months on Twitter building a huge followership. Finally you realize that nothing that you post on Twitter get your followers interested. where did things go wrong? here are five tips to help your blog articles get more traffic from Twitter through retweets

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1. Install the retweet button

A lot of people realize the importance of an article when they read it. but most people need to be told the importance of an article before they realize its significance. when your articles are engaging enough, your blog visitors tend to form an opinion for or against what you have written. either way is fine, but ensure you instigate their thoughts to make an opinion. Such a visitor shall surely be looking to put his point of view forward to his group, and the retweet button reminds him to do just that – retweet your link.

2. Cater to the Ego

Let us suppose you write an article on “Most beautiful cities in the world”. No matter how much time you spent in researching your subject, all that the reader wants to know is whether his city has made it to the list or not. A tweet on this post mentioning the title of this post with a link to your blog might get you casual visits, but then that is not enough to make them hungry to retweet. to do that, soothe or hurt their ego. A tweet that reads ‘Detroit better than New York in beautiful city list’ is sure to make both Detroit and New Yorkers read your blog and either praise or curse you while retweeting. And people from other cities are always going to visit you to see where their city stands!

3. find the maven

While growing your followership is important, the quality of your followership is important too. there are the ‘absorbant‘ kinds – those who read all your tweets but don’t care sharing them to others and the ‘dispersant‘ kinds – those who retweet anything mildly interesting. Study the behavior of twitterers, and follow them. Retweet interesting links they have posted (Why? Read Point 2). reply to their tweets with your opinion or suggesting better reads. They are sure to follow you. They matter a LOT!

4. Direct message with link

If you blog about “pets”, keep following all that people tweet about “pets”. You can do so by simply following the Twitter search RSS feed for that particular keyword on your RSS reader. Study the kind of things people tweet about. A lot of them could be people tweeting queries on the subject. Check back on your blog to see if you have written about those queries. if not, write down a quick post and reply to the twitterer with this link. do this to a few people a day and you will have people following your blog posts blindly and retweeting every article you post.

5. put it in perspective

Statistics are great. People like them a lot. but you need put your statistics in perspective to get them ‘retweet’ interested. “200 people infected with Swine flu” is a good article to tweet about. but what does the reader want to know? 200 people – is it too many people or less? but suppose you tweet ‘Swine flu has affected 50% more people than SARS’- now this is something that will set the reader thinking. he is definitely going to retweet to alert his followers on the danger posed by this new flu!

Five Tips To Get Your Links Retweeted Like Crazy

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Just before noon local time, a small private plane owned by Joseph Stack, crashed into the seven-story Echelon office building in Austin.

The crash caused several small fires within the building with black smoke able to be seen for miles.

Soon after the crash reports of an internet manifesto written by Stack appeared online.

If the manifesto is indeed authentic (which it appears to be), the crash doesn’t appear to be part of any wider terror plot.

We’ll bring you more details as they become available.

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With Valentine’s Day around the corner, love is in the air and solicitations from flower companies are flooding your inbox. While most significant others would prefer to receive flowers year-round, there’s no question that the month of February is the flower industry’s favorite time of the year. and Valentines Day isn’t just for hopeless romantics. as we’ve seen, all this spending can be a boon to the economy at large.

Our latest infographic takes a look at February’s Booming Floral Economy and is based on the aggregate data from over one million Mint.com users, a representative sampling of US consumers.

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Buzz privacy escalate.

The US Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC) has asked the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google’s Buzz social networking tool.

The call comes less than a week after the launch of the social networking tool, which has been widely criticised for its apparent privacy breaches.

EPIC said in the complaint that it is concerned about a number of features in Buzz, particularly the lack of control given to users.

“Last week, Google tried to transform its popular email service into an untested social networking service. As a consequence, Google displayed social networking lists based on a user’s most frequent address book contacts,” EPIC said in a statement.

“The change was widely criticised. EPIC’s complaint cites clear harms to service subscribers and alleges that the change in business practices ‘violated user expectations, diminished user privacy, contradicted Google’s privacy policy, and may have violated Federal wiretap laws’.”

Marc Rotenberg, executive director of EPIC, added that Google’s move represented a “significant breach” of consumers’ expectations of privacy.

“Google should not be allowed to push users’ personal information into a social network they never requested,” he said.

Google addressed some concerns last week, including handing over of control of contact information and settings to the individual user.

EPIC has said that it wants Google Buzz to be “fully opt out”.

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But whoever spoiled me with this, I am committing to actually posting something this weekend, just for you.

I’m not guaranteeing anything too long or big; I’ll be out of town at my in-laws’, but that means I can hopefully leave the kids with their grandparents and get some truly undisturbed time to get at least one drabble done. probably the next installment of the high school AU.

I hope everyone else felt as loved as I did this past Valentine’s Day!

scattered thoughts & [in]sane ramblings – belated V-Day

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The faithful came in droves to the five Ash Wednesday masses and services at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Manteca.

The day which marks the first day of lent always brings large crowds to church for the traditional imposition of ashes on the faithfuls’ foreheads. but at the noon Scripture Service, Father Patrick Walker, noted that Wednesday’s attendance was the largest he has ever seen for a noon service in the years he was pastor of St. Anthony’s.

Many of those who filled the church were multi-generational families – grandparents with their children and grandchildren like the Mendieta family. A good number of parishioners had to stand in the back and along the sides of the church, as well as in the vestibule area for the luncheon hour service.

During his brief homily after the scripture readings, Father Walker explained the reason for the traditional practice of giving up something – one’s favorite food like chocolate, for instance – during the Lenten season. It’s the same reason behind the observance of fasting and abstinence (no meat) on Ash Wednesday and on Fridays throughout the 40 days of lent – to “put God first above chocolate, above everything,” he said.

“Put aside extra food and say, ‘no, Lord, I’m going to choose you. I’m going to choose you above all things.’ Even better, do charitable work,” he said, perhaps helping a neighbor during the lent season and then continue doing that practice even after lent.

Doing charitable deeds “over and above the normal things we do – that’s the gift of lent,” Father Walker said.

For as Jesus said, “whatever you do for the least of my people you do unto me,” the pastor reminded the faithful.

We show our love for Jesus “by our example, by our love” when we do something good to others, he said. “When we love Jesus, we see Christ in others and we respond in love.”

During the 40-day Lenten journey, let us “choose Christ above everything in our life and live for him,” he concluded his homily.

As of Wednesday, members of the extended Mendieta family have not finalized any list of things that they are giving up for lent. but grandmother Irene Mendieta who came to the noon Ash Wednesday service with daughter Jennifer and three grandchildren in tow, two of them in a stroller, said she is going to “give more time for family.” and since she enjoys drinking soda, she may give that up for lent, she said.

Daughter Jennifer, who just graduated from Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo, said giving up something for lent will be a family affair.
“It’s easier if you do it as a family to support each other,” she said.

They have also planned to set aside 20 minutes a day – 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes around dinner time – to “talk to each other about what matters most, what we are thankful for,” Jennifer said.

In the Catholic faith, fasting is required for those from age 18 through 60. They also have to abstain from meat all Fridays of lent. Abstinence applies to all Catholics who are 14 years of age and older. the observance of lent will continue through the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday.

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