[Social Media Hacks] Scoop it for your social media success

Are you struggling to update all your major social networks regularly? I find it quite easy to update all my social networks by just updating single website. it can save lot of time and money for you.
Lets keep this post short and sweet. You can open a scoop.it account and link all your major social network including facebook, twitter, Linkedin and tumblr. Also, you can send a scoop to a Wordpress blog as well as Buffer account.

It has a another killing feature that will help you to keep your social media accounts updating regularly with its curate posts. Scoop.it shows all relevant scoops where you can rescoop them with a one click. You do not have to spend time to find or generate content to keep your facebook twitter accounts active.

If you are busy blogmaster or webmaster who want to keep your social media accounts active all the time open a scoop.it account. It is free and you can go for the premium account to enjoy more benefits.

Let me know what you think about scoop.it and any tricks you use with it.

How to design a great twitter back ground

Most of the twitter users do not use a cool customized twitter background. If you use twitter to promote your business this will add a big advantage. Creating a great twitter background is easy. You can do it by yourself using photoshop (Or any other graphic tool).


1. First create a larger background image (size 2560px x 1600px). This will work on any sized monitor. However, you cannot use the whole image for your background content. If you want you can make a design in this area.

2. Then create small image with images and information that can be used to promote your business.
(Size 235px x 700px)




Ideal information and images you should add to twitter background 

• Company Logo 
• Website URL 
• QR Code (with url or business card info)
• Tag line 
• Any attractive image relevant to your business or background. 

3. Place the small image in the top left hand corner of the big image and save it as PNG and upload it to twitter. 

twitter background

It will look more professional and able to promote your business

15 twitter tools for success

Are you using twitter and want to maximize the popularity,save time and achieve goals. I was looking for some free tools that can help me to automatically send tweets to my followers (without spamming) and ways to get more and more followers. Here are 15 interesting tools that can be used.

You can PIMP your twitter background with free twitter desingner as the first step. Don't forget to add your website url, logo and QR code to twitter background. If you cannot afford probational designers to personalize twitter back ground then this can be used to create your background image.

Twitter feed allow you to automatically takes your RSS feed and send new items to twitter. You can use blog post or any other RSS feed for this. Twitter feed is not limititng twitter but spread your RSS to other social networks such as facebook and LinkedIn.

free-followers is another simple twitter tools that helps you to automatically follow users with the Same interests and automatically maintain and unfollow those not following uou back.Simple and easy way to grow your twitter followers.

Tweepi is another web base tool that will manage your twitter account which helps you to flush the unfollowers, clean up the inactive users or even force twitter users to unfollow you.

twunfollow is another twitter tool that will notify twitter followers that are not following you any longer. Then it is up to you to decide what nee to be done with those users.





Are you looking for a way to post longer messages to Twitter without writing a blog post. Write what you need here and twitlonger post the link to Twitter for you.

Is social media killing your production? It can easily take over your productive work which is important for your success. Bufferapp can easily help you to get back your life without loosing your social life as well. You can add all the interesting links picture and videos to bufferapp and it will automatically share them on social network.

I am sure you love to automate your tweets. How about automatically tweet it when it has the highest impact. Timely will analyze 199 tweets and figure out the best time slots and it will use this info to auto-schedule your tweets.

We should not forget the Wordpress bloggers who would like to automate their old wordpress posts. Tweet old post Wordpress plugin will promote your old post by tweeting them automatically.

When we talk about twitter tools we cannot forget tweetdeck. It will help you to read, filter organize, schedule and manage social network tweets.

Listorious is a twitter user search engine that will help you to search over 2 million top twitter users for a given keyword phrase.

Build Meaningful Personal Relationships that help you achieve your business goals.
Focus on Your Highest-Value relationships. Influencers that drive awareness, supporters that spread your message, potential new leads...Then commun.it might be the tool you would like to use. It is only invitation only site that you may wait to few days.

If you are following lot of users twitilist will  allow you to group them and view tweets from users in the grou or list only.

Now it comes to the final tool I am going to list with this post. I will leave it up to you to decide how you going to use it and benefit from it. It is call listly. I am sure you will like it too.

I am sure now you have enough twitter tools to work with and improve your social network. Did I miss any thing?

Mouse Over Hack on Twitter Enable Pop ups

Hackers are smarter and group of people who think out of the box to achieve something that a system is not suppose to do. Sometimes it can be useful, but most of the cases it will do a damage to the society. If you have studied the SQL injection, I am sure you have surprised first time, how simple it is and effective and amazing way to by pass a logging screen. This is a similar hack that will allow pop-ups in Twitter.

Hackers used a security flaw in twitter retweeting malicious code, activating pop-ups, and even exposing users to an unwanted web sites. Within a short time period it was fixed and twitter is now safe.

This is how the Mouse Over Hack started according the the twitter blog.

“Early this morning, a user noticed the security hole and took advantage of it on Twitter.com. First, someone created an account that exploited the issue by turning tweets different colors and causing a pop-up box with text to appear when someone hovered over the link in the Tweet. This is why folks are referring to this an “onMouseOver” flaw -- the exploit occurred when someone moused over a link. “

End of the day twitter fixed it immediately and make it safe for the twitter lovers.

Source: Twitter Blog & FOXNews

Can I steal Your Twitter Followers?

This is a quick question I am going to ask. Can I steal your Twitter followers? Whether it is yes or no I can steal most of your followers by following them. However, the question is that is it a good way to increase the number of followers?

Simple and quick way to increase Twitter Followers

Following as many as twitter users will make them follow you in return. That means you do not have to be a popular name to have hundreds thousands of followers. You can use couple of tricks to find related and quality Twitter followers. That is to choose some related twitter users and follow their followers. In return you will get some of their quality followers.

It all sound easy and fun. However you need to provide interesting tweets regularly to build your brand and use the twitter followers you already got. If you sounds bit boring then you can easily loose the followers.

Remember this is not a good way to increase the twitter followers, but it is a nice and easy way to have many followers in early stages.

Then comes the big question. How to make money from Twitter?

Twitter Home Page Has Change

Today 31 March 2010 Noticed that the twitter home page has changed add more dynamic functionalities to it. Exposing your tweets to more people.


This is a screenshot of it and what do you think about the recent changes?

Recently I have been enjoying the twitter and used it like crazy and twitter followers gone up by 100. Thats cool and I do not really care whether they really follow me or not. 

How to find the Internet Hot Trends

Are you curious what is rest of the world is searching? or talking about? Yes you can find out what other people are looking for and the internet HOT trends. It is quite useful if you are addicted to news or if you maintain a blog or website.

Twitter is one of the first site that will come to your mind. Yes. thats one of the sites that gives out real time hot trends using the tweets. If you have looked into the results you might have noticed that three four words or search phrase out of ten does not have a proper meaning. It is either something twitter s made up or just a word phrase commonly used.
Image via CrunchBase
Google has recently start giving out some hot trends for given days. It is quite interesting to see what people are searching. Not like twitter you can go to back dates and see what are thehot trends for pass days. It is quite good if you are doing research on some website or online topic or a current situation. Google today's hot trend is the one that close to real time update which can be used to bring more search engine traffic to your blog or website.

Now you know what people are looking

Search Twitter killing Twitter

Twitter is one of a the popular sites you can find today. Everyone talk about twitter and have a twitter account. Even big players like Google Microsoft use twitter account. Twitter is started as micro blogging that allows only 140 characters and follow people you want and people who find you interesting can follow you. Simple idea but it worked for many people out there to promote their business ideas products over the internet. Introducing Search Twitter turn this simple idea bit complex.
Why is search Twitter page killing Twitter? Twitter is already targeted by spammers. We cannot blame Twitter because spammers pretty much use all the communication methods possible. However, it was quite limited as only the people who follows you can see your tweets and if they find you spamming or not interesting they can stop following you.
Search Twitter add more room for spammers to find out what people are tweet about. You know if you include that keyword BANG so many people would click on your link. Thanks to tinny url and etc you can hide the original URL. You have no clue what your are clicking on or where it is going to take you. On the other hand thats a pretty good way to bring more people to your website or blog. However, it is pretty hard to filter the spammers. Even you can direct people (without any condition) to adult only content website without any problem. Yes it is happening.

That is one reason why Google is not showing real time result on what people are searching on Google. That will directly force you to spam as you know what people are searching right now. Everyone likes couple of extra clicks on your web sites.

As long as you use it as a good tool to generate traffic using relevant content it wont be a problem. I alway use this method to get traffic. But I cannot find may interesting links base on those key words. Can you?

It is always good to make it hard. It gives more important and good value when you earn it. Just like the Google Page Rank. Having Couple of thousands followers would be Gold. But with Twitter Search without making many followers you can get hits to your link.

What do you think is it good or bad?

Google Twitter Directory

Twitter is simplee an quite famous.Even Google likes it more than anyone else. Check out the number of accounts Google having in twitter for each Google Service.

twitter.com/Google - our central account
twitter.com/Blogger - for Blogger fans
twitter.com/GoogleCalendar - user tips & updates
twitter.com/GoogleImages - news, tips, tricks on our visual image search
twitter.com/GoogleNews - latest headlines via Google News
twitter.com/GoogleReader - from our feed reader team
twitter.com/iGoogle - news & notes from Google's personalized homepage
twitter.com/GoogleStudents - news of interest to students using Google
twitter.com/YouTube - for YouTube fans
twitter.com/YouTubeES - en Espanol
twitter.com/GoogleAtWork - solutions for IT and workplace productivity

Geo-related
twitter.com/SketchUp - Google SketchUp news
twitter.com/3DWH - SketchUp's 3D Warehouse
twitter.com/Modelyourtown - 3D modeling to build your favorite places
twitter.com/EarthOutreach - Earth & Maps tools for nonprofits & orgs
twitter.com/GoogleMaps - uses, tips, mashups
twitter.com/GoogleSkyMap -Android app for the night sky

Ads-related
twitter.com/AdSense - for online publishers
twitter.com/AdWordsHelper - looking out for AdWords questions and tech issues
twitter.com/AdWordsProSarah - Google Guide for AdWords Help Forum
twitter.com/GoogleAnalytics - insights for website effectiveness
twitter.com/GoogleAdBuilder - re building display ads
twitter.com/GoogleRetail - for retail advertisers
twitter.com/TechnologyUK - for U.K. tech advertisers
twitter.com/InsideAdWordsDE - for German AdWords customers
twitter.com/GoogleAgencyDE - for German ad agencies
twitter.com/AdSensePT - info for Portuguese-language publishers
twitter.com/AdWordsRussia - AdWords news & tips in Russian
twitter.com/DentroDeAdWords - Spanish updates from the Inside AdWords blog
twitter.com/AdWordsAPI - AdWords API tips

Developer & technical
twitter.com/GoogleResearch - from our research scientists
twitter.com/GoogleWMC - Google Webmaster Central
twitter.com/GoogleCode - latest updates for Google developer products
twitter.com/GoogleData - Data APIs provide a standard protocol for reading and writing web data
twitter.com/app_engine - web apps run on Google infrastructure
twitter.com/DataLiberation - our initiative for complete import/export of all data
twitter.com/GoogleMapsAPI - about using Google Maps embedded in websites
twitter.com/GoogleIO - Google's largest annual developer event

Culture, People
twitter.com/googletalks - notes from our @Google speaker series
twitter.com/googlejobs - the voice of Google recruiters

Country or Region
twitter.com/googlearabia - news from the Google Arabia Blog*

twitter.com/googledownunder - Google activities in Australia & New Zealand
twitter.com/GoogleDE - Google in Germany
twitter.com/GoogleLatAm - Latin America (en Espanol)
twitter.com/GooglePolicyIt - Notes on Google policy issues in Italy

Official Google Blog: Google accounts on Twitter

How twitter can kill your computer

Malware Threat is one of the trending topics in twitter search. What is it all about? It is basically about some malware links start to use twitter trending topics. Pretty much a new way to catch large number of twitter users.

how it works? According to mashable.com it malware links comes with normal tweets and and only affect you if you click on any of these links.

Beware “Twitterbest” and “Zasaden” in Twitter Search

Do not click on any of the linkes with these keywords.

If you click it will take you to a page that prompt you to upgrade the flash plug in and if you agree to download it the software install it self and then a error message saying there is a virus in your computer and need to download a Antivirus called "Fast-anti-virus-2009" for $89. (Goal of the malware)

Do not click on any of the links with these keywords “Twitterbest” and “Zasaden”.

Do not install any software or upgrade any drivers that pop up from any of the links.

It will be a really hard hard task to track the links as liks can be hidden using tools that use to shorten the urls (commonly use in twitter).

Also twitter shows the real time trending topics and that allows the attackers to target the most number of users at that time. Imagine if Google started to display real time trending search will create a big mess.