Rightly or wrongly this simple outage has cost Chambers his job and caused much stress for himself as well as his family. Although support from the Twitter world has flooded in and offers to pay his legal fees, Paul is unsure whether to take people up on their kind offers.

Celebrities such as Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross are amongst those who have sent their wishes of support.

This just shows, the Twitter world is truly unique and takes communication to a new level, bringing people together and uniting a worldwide community.

• Customisation of page contents
• ‘Verified account’ badge
• A wider range of preferences to expand consumer reach
• Allows multiple tweeters from one account.

The next step from Twitter will certainly help build online brand reputation and businesses social networking strategies through this new beta platform.

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1. My friend and colleague Samia “Likes” Pop Boutique on Facebook
2. I MSN her excitedly that I am wearing a dress from Pop Boutique today
3. I also “Like” Pop Boutique
4. I visit their website http://www.pop-boutique.com/ from Facebook, browse a bit and add myself to the mailing list
5. Samia has visited the London store and can’t place where the Leeds one is, so I go to Google Maps and use the Streetview to show her where it is.  Samia plans a shopping trip.
6. I write up this piece and post in on our blog
7. I tweet about this
8. I add it to my Facebook
9. Samia and I discuss Pop Boutique some more – we are both planning shopping trips
10. BINGO – Social Media Marketing for fashion definitely works…

PS – We are not connected to Pop Boutique in any way, shape or form – we are just fans.

PPS – We are more than happy to hear from anyone from Pop Boutique if they would like to get in touch

Here are the top Twitter directories I use:
WeFollow – Grouping Twitter users and messages using #tags
Twellow – Directory of Twitter users by category
Social brand index – Directory of public companies
WhoShouldFollow – By adding your user name this API will find people you don’t follow which relate to your Twitter bio.
Just tweet it – Like WeFollow this directory adds you automatically, you just need to update your status.

Community Pages are aimed for Facebook users to create pages about topics and interests, themes and ideas they are interested in but which currently do not fit under the more customized Facebook Groups and Fan pages.

The new page was devised as an alternative to a Fan Pages which are developed for businesses, public figures and organisations. However the community pages are also designed to enhance personal pages.

Info pages on personal profiles will be enhanced by these connections such as, hometown, education and work, likes and interests, explains Alex Li from Facebook. In true Wikipedia style each community page, of which 6.5million will be created, will be available on any subject.

To modify pages you can request to add content to pages through a system where Facebook will notify you as to whether you are eligible to make a modification. The pages will include live streaming of relevant Facebook information for example, status updates.

The new initiative has already started to prompt users to amend information on profiles, linking to either Community Pages or Official Pages; a pop up box will recommend pages according to the information which you have included on your profile, you will then select how public you want this information to be, who will see it etc.

Another change is that Facebook are phasing out the link ‘Become a Fan’, instead of clicking on that users will now just click the ‘Like’ link, and to removed the link to fan pages there will now be an ‘Unlike’ link at the bottom of a page, alternatively fan pages can be removed through editing your profile.

Some industry experts believe adding the ‘Community Pages’ was a logical move in order to compete with information sharing sites like Wikipedia, however from a users perspective both socially and for business purposes the move could be a little confusing.

So, what are your initial thoughts and where do you think Facebook will venture next? Your opinions please…

Sources: http://ow.ly/1AEQH & http://www.insidefacebook.com

Email marketing: Is a form of direct marketing – sending emails out to customers / clients with interesting offers as well as industry news will help get you noticed and promote specific areas of your website.

Blogs: A company blog will enhance your presence online providing you give your audience interesting and useful information, whether it’s about your brand or the industry sector you are in. It helps to include links and produce SEO friendly content to ensure good search engine visibility.

Articles: updating your audience by providing current news updates through press releases will help improve traffic if you use high quality links and fully optimised content, as well as good quality online news wire resources.

Social Media: maximise your blog posts and articles by publishing links on social networks such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

More traditional ways to help improve web traffic includes, search engine optimisation (SEO), link building and pay per click (PPC).

It is essential when considering the use of such APIs to ensure you do not repeat yourself and to not tweet too much in relatively short spaces of time. A mixture of pre-loaded API tweets and a personal touch is key in creating a twitter account where you don’t have to be on Twitter 24/7 with the ability to get the information across, as well as interact with fellow tweeters.

I think batch tweets are worth setting up, bearing in mind that you have to have the content ready to upload and you interact, otherwise you won’t get many followers or are at a higher risk of losing valued followers and attracting spammers. Giving something of worth to your followers is essential in creating a highly successful twitter account!

Unlike traditional search engines, social search engines can take a number of other factors into play other than SEO content, for example:

• How many times people share the link of an article for example, via social networks such as Twitter and Facebook
• How many people use social bookmarks to re-publish the link
• Tagging and connecting articles and posts through blogs/social networks
• Voting on articles posted to certain news wires (like Go Articles, Wikio)

Here is a selection of social search engines:
http://topsy.com/
http://www.icerocket.com/
http://www.whostalkin.com/
http://www.samepoint.com/
http://www.scoopler.com/
http://www.mamma.com/
http://www.gravee.com/

According to Wikipedia micro blogging is a form of blogging but differs as content is typically smaller in mass than a traditional blog – as with Twitter there is a character limit of 140 (like a traditional text message). Twitter is also classed as a social network as the site is designed for people to network and relate to other users.

However, Wikipedia defines a social network to also represent a user, profile and links to activities of the user and the use of instant messages similarly to what Twitter does.

Facebook is one of the most used social networks across the world today and is constantly growing and developing throughout the USA, UK, Europe and beyond….