Twitter Blog: Introducing Fast Follow, and other SMS tips

Fast Follow. Anyone in the US can receive Tweets on their phone even if they haven’t signed up for Twitter. This is a simple way for people to get information they care about in real-time. For example, let’s say you want to get Tweets from New York City’s office of emergency management (@NotifyNYC). Just text ‘follow NotifyNYC’ to 40404 in the US.

Try it out the next time you see a Twitter @username at a restaurant or store, on a billboard or on TV, or if you hear one mentioned on the radio.

via blog.twitter.com

Posted via email from Social Persuasion - The Social Media Marketing Agency Blog

Ow.ly and Ht.ly ~ Choose Bar or Non-bar URL Shortener for HootSuite - Twitter Social Media Marketing Tools

HootSuite users can now choose between two flavors of links — one with a social bar and one without.

In this character-limited web, URL shorteners are of great importance — for statistics, for branding, or simply for convenience. Ow.ly is used to shrink hundreds of thousands of links daily by users seeking clickthrough statistics and the one-click convenience of shrinking a link in HootSuite.

via blog.hootsuite.com

Hootsuite is also offering a pro service enabling you to use your own vanity url for your shortened url -- ie goo.gl

Posted via web from Vancouver Internet Marketing Consultant - Brent Purves