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Twitter debuts New optimized Mobile Website for Mobile Users
Twitter, the most popular micro-blogging platform have launched a new mobile website, an optimized one for those user who tweet using their phones. According to the company, plenty of people were still accessing its old Web site when tweeting from their phones, so Twitter revamped the old site http://m.twitter.com for them.

New optimized Mobile website will help those users who are not using special apps like Tweetie or Twidroid.
Here also, Redesign & optimization is the major work that can be seen on the new website. When you log in, there are four tabs for your Twitter stream, mentions, favorites, and direct messages.

Twitter’s mobile team, said the site works best on Webkit browsers on the Android, iPhone, Nokia S60 and Palm Web OS phones. The company will work out a better interface for Blackberries and other phones later on.
But the infamous fail whale, signaling the service is over-capacity and down is still there on Twitter mobile too.
15 Google Wave Invitations are Here – Grab them [Giveaway]
Google started sending out invitations some time before for the limited preview of Google Wave to the first 100,000 signups for Wave, and you can see the excitement on every tech blog and forums that are filled with users asking for Google Wave invites.

So, Now we have come up with a giveaway on InfoRids in which 15 lucky winners will get Google Wave Invitations. Last month we have came out with a contest Win Copies of Chetan Bhagat’s Latest Book “2 States” | Giveaway from Inforids, for our readers & it was loved by many.

Rules of the Contest are Simple
2. Tweet the following line:
Inforids is giving 15 Google Wave Invitations - http://bit.ly/8Afdvz – Grab them Now [Giveaway]
4. Comment below with your Tweet link & Twitter user name & Email, like this:
Google Wave Invites Left: 10
Wave Invites Sent: 5
Selection of Winners
Simply Comment & get your Invite. Thats so easy.
Contest Deadline: 17 December 09
Any Questions, queries, views, Share them below.
If you are a Blogger, You have to Tweet – Says Technorati Analysis
Yes if you are a blogger, you blog, then you have to Tweet. Why? Lets see.
Bloggers use Twitter much more than does the general population. Yes it is true. Bloggers say they use Twitter to promote their blogs, bring interesting links to light, and to get a feel for what people are talking about.

In year 2009, the trends set by Twitter, the most eminent microblogging service today have made a huge impact on bloggers & have came as the leading blogosphere trends for this year. This is what State of the Blogosphere 2009 report from the blog search engine, Technorati analysed while leading blogosphere trends for 2009.
About 73 percent of bloggers use Twitter, compared to about 14 percent of the general population. About 52 percent of Twittering bloggers are syndicating their blog posts to Twitter.

Technorati found that blogs with more than 100 page views a day received just 0.83 percent of their page views from Twitter referrals.
In fact, some bloggers (26 percent) spend so much time on Twitter that it has eaten into the time that they spend updating their blogs.
Now look at the bloggers are not using Twitter. Among the bloggers who don’t use it, 35 percent say they simply don’t understand the point of it. Another 54 percent say they feel no need to blog the details of their personal lives, in spite of the popularity of personal musings.

Technorati’s report also focused on the growing political influence of bloggers. The blogosphere’s impact on elections, from local politics to national elections, is growing. (Image Credits: Technorati)
Do you agree with the report from Technorati? Is Twitter is impacting the global nature & future of blogging? If yes, How?
Comment & Share your views with us. Follow Inforids on Twitter.
Yahoo Meme Oversteps Twitter | Allows you to Meme Text, Photo, Audio & Video
Meme (meme.yahoo.com) from Yahoo! is a light blogging and self-expression tool available in beta. With that launch, Yahoo Meme can be accessed to everyone who is having an Yahoo account.

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Meme helps people quickly share what they are interested in and passionate about – including text, photos, video, music – with the world. Its design is incredibly simple to use and supports multimedia and text formats.

Just Meme Photos, Audios, Videos in Addition to Text
Yahoo Meme is built just an Step Over Twitter, the most popular Mini-Blogging platform. Why? Lets see.
What Yahoo Meme offers to People?
* Post own content(Text, Photo, Audio, Video) and repost the content of others that they find interesting
* One-Click reposts for simple and easy publishing
* Follow other Meme users and comment on their posts
* Remove content from their Meme including previous updates, reposts, comments, etc.
* Check out the most popular posts
* Consume and create content via their mobile devices
* Content limits are up to 2,000 characters and up to 7MB per photo
What Yahoo Meme offers to Developers?
Meme offers an open API built on top of the YQL (Yahoo! Query Language) platform. Developers can use this open API to create new applications based on Meme as well as easily create mashups with other products through YQL.
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Top 6 Twitter Profile Secrets for Twitter Users
If you are a twitter user like other 40 million users, how you can use twitter more effectively.
Here are the top 6 twitter profile secrets for twitter users.
[1] Choose your username wisely. It should be simple & clear. You can either go for your website name or your name.
[2] Use a profile image that is clean & good. It should convey some meaning. It will be better if you relate to your website. A close-up, company’s logo or other catchy and meaningful image on your profile display image will be nice.
[3] Don’t write long bio in your profile. Keep it clean and catchy. Let visitor search for that.
[4] Use keywords (for which you want to be found) in username & bio.
[5] Design custom background image for your twitter profile. It shoud be simple & clean enough so that visitor feel it interesting in each visit.
[6] In website column, apart from website or blog URL you can put effective landing page’s URL to make first impression very impressive.
This can help you increasing your foloers on twitter. You can follow me. Follow Techprism
Twitter (micro blogging) in plain English[Video]
Once again the highly creative people over at the Common Craft show have put together an easy to follow and informative video, this time demonstrating the simplicity and beauty of Twitter. Its a nice Video explaing the twitter beauty & usage in plain English.
If you want to follow me on twitter, go here. Easy & instant, twitter is growing its usage day by day & now its most eminent micro-blogging medium today.
Analyze Twitter Stats Easily | Track Geographic Location of Twitter Followers on World Map
Twitter is the most popular micro blogging client. But when it comes to analyze of your website twitter followers, it is important to take into account that which part of the world where your website has twitter followers. It can be a great help for examining your readers & preferences. So, if you want to see the geographical location of your twitter followers, then there’s a easy way. Read more »











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