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Facebook Status Messages and Twitter Tweets Now Matter

By Toronto Mike • Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 • 0 Comments

Now that I have a semblance of closure with regards to Martin Streek's suicide, I want to briefly revisit one of the details surrounding his death that has irrecoverably changed social media in my eyes. Just before taking his own life, Martin left a suicide note for family, friends and

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Humble's a Lousy Blogger, But a Great Tweeter

By Toronto Mike • Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 • 0 Comments

A few years ago, I built Humble Howard a blog at www.humblehoward.com and taught him how to use it. As the years went by, his posts were less and less frequent and you could tell he was starting to mail it in. Humble's a fine radio personality and

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Iran's Twitter Revolution #iranelection

By Toronto Mike • Friday, June 19th, 2009 • 0 Comments

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the 2009 Iranian presidential election with 62.63% of the popular vote. At least, that's what the "official" results show. Mir-Hossein Mousavi will tell you he had 62.63% of the popular vote. Thousands gathered in protest, and the Iranian government responded by restricting all journalists working

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The Dirty Truth About Clearing 500 Followers on Twitter

By Toronto Mike • Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 • 0 Comments

I got to 500 followers on Twitter fairly honestly. Some follow everyone under the sun in the hopes they'll reciprocate. In fact, there are even lists of people on Twitter who automatically follow back everyone, so if you follow 500 of those guys you'll hit 500 followers pretty quick. I

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Interview With Andrew Goodman About SEO, PPC, Twitter and Jays

By Toronto Mike • Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 • 0 Comments

Next month, I'll be attending the Search Engines Strategies 2009 Conference and Expo here in Toronto June 8-10. Now in its 6th year, the event is organized and programmed by Andrew Goodman, the SES Advisory Board and SearchEngineWatch.com, the leading authority on Search Engine Marketing (SEM), including SEO and

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Following the Jays on Twitter, Tweeting TFC Tonight

By Toronto Mike • Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 • 0 Comments

I was playing a double header last night, which meant I was at the ballpark from about 7pm until 11pm. That meant I missed the entire Jays game, a game I was highly anticipating. Thank goodness for Twitter. A few people I was following were at the game, and every

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How I Scored a Copy of the Elusive Hang On Blue Jays Song

By Toronto Mike • Monday, May 4th, 2009 • 0 Comments

Whether you're an old school Toronto Blue Jays fan or not, I think this makes for a pretty cool story. In other words, you're all ordered to read this entry, whether you give a lick about baseball or not. It started when I wrote a tweet via Twitter about Ok

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@torontomike Wins Stajan Autograph from @TorontoMarlies

By Toronto Mike • Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 • 0 Comments

I just won an autographed Matt Stajan card from the Toronto Marlies. I won via Twitter, where I suspect my odds were pretty awesome. @torontomarlies currently has 208 followers and I'm fairly certain only a handful played along with their RT contest yesterday. I'm glad I won, because it gives

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The Value of Hashtags - Hesitant to Embrace?

By Toronto Mike • Monday, April 20th, 2009 • 0 Comments

Now that I've been an active member of the Twittersphere for a half year, there's one thing that still somewhat confuses me. If it's confusing me, it's likely confusing others. I'm referring to the value of hashtags in tweets. When I tweet from Toronto Marlies games, I try to end

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Oprah's First Tweet and Shaq's Quick Response

By Toronto Mike • Saturday, April 18th, 2009 • 0 Comments

Oprah has entered the Twittersphere. It's not quite Neil Armstrong taking a step on the moon, but it'll do for a Saturday morning in April. Here's Oprah's first tweet. HI TWITTERS . THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY .Ho hum.... I'm not following Oprah on Twitter, but

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The Good and Bad of Having Oprah on Twitter

By Toronto Mike • Thursday, April 16th, 2009 • 0 Comments

Oprah Winfrey now controls http://twitter.com/oprah and tomorrow, during her show, she'll make her first tweet. The ProHundreds of thousands of Oprah worshippers will learn about Twitter. The soccer mom contingent will be gobbling up Twitter accounts and following their fearless leader in droves at about this time

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Updating Facebook Status From Twitter Tweets

By Toronto Mike • Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 • 0 Comments

When I got into Twitter, I all but abandoned my Facebook account. In fact, my Facebook status message read "Follow me on Twitter @ www.twitter.com/torontomike." A member of my slo-pitch team asked me earlier today about updating her Facebook status messages via Twitter. I always knew how to

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Google and Twitter?

By Toronto Mike • Friday, April 3rd, 2009 • 0 Comments

The buzz this morning is that Google is in talks to buy Twitter. Of course, it depends who you ask. Google Inc. may be in talks to buy Internet start-up Twitter, the free micro-blogging service that allows people to send short text messages to a network of friends, the TechCrunch

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Down Goes Fake Brian Burke on Twitter

By Toronto Mike • Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 • 0 Comments

The fake Brian Burke on Twitter is dead. Down Goes Brown just made the announcement. I first wrote about the fake Brian Burke on Twitter back in January. At the time, it was a joke shared by a few that struck my funny bone. Since that entry, I've read about

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The Real Shaq on Twitter Gives Back

By Toronto Mike • Thursday, March 26th, 2009 • 0 Comments

I follow THE_REAL_SHAQ on Twitter. He's one of the few celebrities I follow and I only follow him because of his fun Tweets. You can tell he loves Twitter. I often see Shaq giving away tickets to his games via Twitter. Here's the Tweet from Shaquille O'Neal moments

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TwitterFox vs. TweetDeck vs. Twhirl

By Toronto Mike • Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 • 0 Comments

If you tweet and / or follow people of Twitter, you're likely not doing it at twitter.com. Few power users ever see their own Twitter backgrounds because it's far more convenient to tweet and follow people on Twitter via 3rd party apps. I've tried three such methods: Twhirl, TweetDeck and

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The Twitter Song

By Toronto Mike • Thursday, March 19th, 2009 • 0 Comments

Awwwww, Jason from Get Your OJ Dot Com wrote me a song! Sing this one to the tune of "Killing Me Softly with His Song" by Roberta Flack. Actually, upon further review, the "(one time, one time)" suggests you should sing this to The Fugees cover "Killing Me Softly”. tweeting

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Twitter's Premium Accounts and the Fail Whale Tuxedo

By Toronto Mike • Thursday, March 19th, 2009 • 0 Comments

Now that Twitter has all these eyeballs, how are they going to make money? One way is by introducing premium accounts. Williams stressed that free accounts will still be available to all users, and that only those wanting more services would pay. Premium accounts will come in four tiers: Sparrow,

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The Facebook Fiends vs. the Twitter Followers

By Toronto Mike • Monday, March 16th, 2009 • 0 Comments

In the beginning, there was MySpace. Back in 2005, I created a MySpace page for my buddy Custom because they had a music player and all the bands had pages. MySpace was (and is) a cesspool of poor design, trolls and annoying teens. I never created a MySpace account for

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Twitter vs. RSS, the Early Results are In...

By Toronto Mike • Monday, February 23rd, 2009 • 0 Comments

Back in November, I created a Twitter account as a social media experiment of sorts. At the time, I was most interested in Twitter as an RSS feed alternative. Would people follow me on Twitter instead of subscribing to my RSS feed? It only took a few months for the

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Toronto Mike Tweets on Twitter

By Toronto Mike • Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 • 0 Comments

It makes sense that someone who has blogged daily for almost seven years would dig Twitter. I see Tweets on Twitter as micro-blogging, a nice complement to the junk I'm posting here at torontomike.com. At first I was treating Twitter as a sort of RSS feed, auto-tweeting to alert

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Following Brian Burke on Twitter

By Toronto Mike • Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 • 0 Comments

Ok, it's not the real Brian Burke, but it's actually more fun. I'm following the fake Brian Burke on Twitter. About two hours ago he filled us Leaf fans in on what's coming down the pipe. "Just ordered Nonis to go trade for Luongo again. That's one problem solved".

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I Live In A Digital Ghetto

By Toronto Mike • Friday, November 28th, 2008 • 0 Comments

Jesse Brown has an interesting entry on his Search Engine blog for CBC Radio. He laments about the growing list of backwards policies in Canada that he believes is creating a sense of digital isolation. 1. Last week the CRTC sided with Bell against a group of small Internet Service

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Twitter as an RSS Feed - A Social Experiment

By Toronto Mike • Friday, November 21st, 2008 • 0 Comments

When Twitter first took off, I was sceptical. I didn't think it would make it, but I kept my good eye on it to see if it would fizzle out or reach the mainstream. I think it's now safe to say that Twitter has gone mainstream. I don't have an

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Time to Kill the Blog?

By Toronto Mike • Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 • 0 Comments

Wired magazine says the blog is very 2004. They say Twitter, Flickr and Facebook are the new homes for witty prose. They're suggesting I kill this blog. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists

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