Published by Jenny on 15 Feb 2010

How I gained more Twitter followers by changing my Twitter profile picture


Or, “how I ditched the robot and became a real person on Twitter…”

Is a picture worth a thousand tweets? Quite possibly

I loathe seeing pictures of myself appearing in the public domain. Vain enough to do vanity searches, realistic enough to recognise that I’m not particularly photogenic, I’ve chosen in the past to use meaningless alias pictures wherever possible.

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Published by Janine on 10 Aug 2009

Can Tweeting help get your own way?

When I read this article http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/traveltips/08/06/travel.social.media/index.html from cnn.com I was thinking about how popular Twitter and Facebook are, how they have developed over the years and how we all use them to micro-blog about what is happening around us.

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