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You can connect with sponsors to sponsor your tweets!

If it hasn't already been captured, I think I would like to coin a term: "tweetvertising"

Sponsored Tweets is a new Twitter advertising platform that connects advertisers with tweeters. Advertisers can create sponsored conversations on Twitter. Tweeters can earn money for spreading the word.

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All you need is a Twitter account to get started. Sponsored Tweets is a whitelisted Twitter application and uses your Twitter credentials to create an account. Ethically, SponsoredTweets.com facilitates an open relationship between Tweeters and Advertisers. The Tweeters that engage in a sponsored tweets program are required to disclose their relationship with marketers in their communications with other consumers.

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Socialize your way to small-business success

Socialize your way to small-business success
By Sara K. Clarke  SENTINEL STAFF WRITER
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Facebook. LinkedIn. Twitter. Social media may be here to stay, but for small businesses, it can be a challenge to figure out where to devote time and resources...

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Over the past few months, Twitter has experienced explosive growth, attracting celebrity users such as Oprah, and a growing mountain of media and blog coverage. Sysomos Inc., one of the world's leading social media analytics companies, conducted an extensive study to document Twitter's growth and how people are using it. After analyzing information disclosed on 11.5 million Twitters accounts, we discovered that... [refer to link for continuation of article... http://sysomos.com/insidetwitter]
 
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Top 10 Vital Social Media Stories of the Week

July 19th, 2009 | by Ben Parr

Social media was all over the map this week, but there was one theme that ran through many of this week’s stories: security. From Twitter’s meltdown to a gaping vulnerability Firefox 3.5, users saw the importance of security first-hand. Security’s also a huge issue with Internet Explorer 6, which we highlight in this week’s most popular story.

There were a lot of useful resources published this week as well. Funny viral videos, social media business models, and iPhone apps that can save lives are just a few of the great things this week’s stories taught us. Here are most popular social media stories of the week.

1. IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On

2. Twitter’s Security Meltdown

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7. Top 15 Web Hoaxes of All Time

8. MySpace: No Longer King of Entertainment

9. Highly Critical Security Vulnerability Found in Firefox 3.5

10. 10 Ways Universities Share Information Using Social Media

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Twitt(url)y | Tracking and ranking what URLs people are tweeting about on Twitter

Twitt(url)y | Tracking and ranking what URLs people are tweeting about on Twitter.

Twitturly tracks the URLs flying around the Twitterverse and provides a quick, real-time view of what people are talking about on Twitter.

Each time someone tweets a URL to their followers on Twitter, Twitturly takes note of it and applies it as a vote for that URL. The more votes a URL has in the last 24 hours, the higher it ranks on Twitturly's Top100. It's that simple.

Whether people link directly to the final URL, use TinyURL, Snipurl (snurl), or any other URL shortening service, we always count the "votes" correctly because our spiders actually visit every single site before it gets displayed here.

To keep things fresh and the quality high, the Twitturly Top100 only shows the 100 most popular URLs over the last 24 hours. The 24 hours are constantly sliding and because of some extra smart algorithms, you always see what people are currently talking about. And yes, to prevent gaming of our site, those extra smart algorithms catch pretty much all of the spam and robots on twitter too.