Does a retweet button encourage retweets?

As I’ve just added the “retweet” plugin to my blog, I have a question for you: does a retweet button encourage people to retweet your posts? I can see how it might – if people see it, they might click it. But on the other hand, if they like your post, wouldn’t they share it [...]

Let’s see how many people we can get… spammed, that is

Over at Weekly Blogging, I ask: does an image improve a post? I think it does, if the image is both eye-catching and relevant to the post content. So, here’s a post with an image for a change. It’s anyone’s guess as to whether I’ll do this again. How many times have you come across [...]

A suggestion for Twitter: Favourite groups

At the moment, I don’t really use Twitter’s “favourite” feature, because a long list of favourites with no filtering is not much help really. When I bookmark sites in my browser, I put them into folders. Email gets organised with labels. And blog posts have categories to aid navigation. It makes a lot of sense [...]

Let’s be Facebook friends. Even though I’m not your friend.

Facebook is a good way of finding your family, old school friends, work friends, pub friends, that person you randomly spoke to once while on a training day… almost anyone really. Sending a friend request suggests you want to connect (or reconnect) with that person. There are various things I’ve noticed with the art of [...]

Twitter is a comedian’s nightmare

What do I know, I’m not funny enough to be a comedian. That in itself is a big joke. But I can tell you this. It’s hard to be funny in 140 characters. Especially when you’re not all that funny. And here’s proof:

Too many Facebook notifications?

On Facebook, sometimes it’s handy to see that someone replied to something you commented on. A bit like subscribing to blog comments. However, there’s a bit of a problem: no unsubscribe. At least not for individual posts.

The Times: Now adopting a different Twitter strategy?

Earlier this week, I highlighted that The Times were spamming Twitter with news of their new pay-only site. However, it appears they are now replying to people with comments that aren’t anything like the blatant spam they were pushing before. Check their Twitter profile for some examples.

The Times: With the paywall up, now they’re spamming Twitter

Previously, I wrote about the Paywall installed by The Times, which I called a user experience nightmare. In what initially appeared to be a net-savvy move on their part, today I received a tweet from them: @benbarden Hello, the homepages are still free, and take a look at timesplus.co.uk for more free access. Intro offer: [...]