Are You Making These Twitter Mistakes?

Twitter, for most of people, might be an awesome tool. But it doesn’t hold all the answers that we are seeking. Twitter is addicting and fun! I’m a living proof. The addiction and fun it brings is precisely the trouble with Twitter.

Twitter is considered the SMS of the internet. Even with its 140 characters limitation, still that does not diminish the appeal of social media.

Most people commit these mistakes on Twitter:

When you turn on your pc, what do you usually open first? If you’re going to ask me, it’s my Friendster account lol! Many employees of certain companies admit that the first thing they open was their Twitter account. Some companies have restricted the use of Twitter on their employees’ computer because it hinders the workflow. Instead of filing some documents, they are twitting with their account. Twitter might not be a problem when you’re at home, but in the office yes it is.

Twitter replaces most of our meaningful conversations. And worst is that it also reduces into a 140 character limitation. Its instant messaging package was great but Twitting thank you messages for your friends who attended your, let say your wedding is not the same as sending them a personalized thank you cards.

Twitter can be used for advertising your business, drive more sales and spread the word to all your followers about your new product or service. But you must not rely on Twitter alone. Twitter could be your marketing tool but it should not be the backbone of your business.

Every user must know how to use Twitter well as well its limitations. So that it can be used in productive ways.

Must Read Twitter Safety Tips

Many people have fallen in love with Twitter. And we all know how fun it could be. Many people think there is nothing wrong with it at all. Who needs Twitter safety tips anyway when you could only see a cute bird logo?

Well, do not be sure enough that Twitter is cute like Tweety bird. Remember that Twitter is still part of the internet and is eligible of being targeted by sexual predators and people who wanted to do harm on others.

Just last month, I’ve post about another Twitter scam. It’s the “OMG! I Got Over 2000+ Followers on Twitter”. So I’ve prepared must read Twitter safety tips for all.

The internet was not harmful by itself. It is meant for online library of information and for fun. But what make it harmful were the groups of people that have bad intentions. Who could ever think that the person you are mingling with was a 50 year old pervert mask with a cute and handsome 15 year old boy? People could easily make lies on Twitter.

Don’t tell your location if you have added some friends on Twitter that were not really your friends. Twitting could be addicting. Don’t tweet that you are stuck on Starbucks alone drinking your favorite coffee. This information could be taken advantage by anyone.

Don’t give up your trust on the internet. Twitting that you have just bought a golden necklace could attract some wrong sort of followers.


Twitting is fun but don’t forget your limitations about twitting your private information for the whole world could read. Whatever you do on Twitter do not forget these must read Twitter safety tips.

Reasons Why to use Blogs

I have already mentioned a good use of blog in my post “Making your Blog as your Website”. Blogs are becoming more and more popular in business and the internet is going to recognize blogs as a medium to increase more sales. I have added some more reasons why to use blogs.

1. Ease of Work
Compared to websites, blogs can be easily updated. Not like websites that require you to change html and republish it again. With the use of blog, within minutes, changes can be made.

2. Speed of Change
Compared to websites, changes can be done is minutes or even seconds. Websites require hours to make a change. It is very time consuming.

3. Speed of Delivery
Information seekers get to your information quickly. Also search engines can quickly pick up the information changes that you make.

4. Less organization
When you make posts to your blog, it is not necessary for it to be super organized just as websites do many html and codes. As long as the information was there and it is as if you were talking to your readers.

5. Ease of communication
Blogs has comment forms where readers can leave their feedback. The comments are important because this is the direct feedback of your readers, competitors, friends and clients.

6. Costs of Factors
Blogs only cost you few bucks like for the domain name and for hosting and nothing more, unless you get into advertising your blog.

7. Search engine love affair
Search engines loves updated blogs.

If you have more questions regarding about blogs contact me using the contact form. And watch out for more of my posts.

Making your Blog as your Website

Many webmasters are doing this. Maybe this doesn’t sound appealing for a newbie. But blogs are easy to use than websites and is easy to maintain. Have you tried visiting a website that is outdated? Let us face it, maintaining an updated website is not as easy as blogging, unless you got your team of people to constantly updating your website.

For this reason, you may want to use blog software to run a website. No? Still not convince? Okay I’ll give you an example. Haven’t you compare the costs of making a blog and a website? Got the idea? The beauty of this is price. Why pay companies to set you up a static website when you could just do it on your own.

The best part of using blogs is that you can change anything and anywhere as long as you have internet connection anything you want. You can add users, or email accounts just like what you’ve been doing to other sites. Everything was well set up. All you have to do is follow simple steps and you’re on!

Oh wait a minute! Haven’t I mention that you can add videos, music, photos, and just anything you want to add on your blog? And those users can easily subscribe to your blog using RSS feeds.

Blogging from Blogger to WordPress

I started my blog with Blogger free hosting. As you can see it has a “.blogspot.com” on it. I now wanted to use WordPress because it has many benefits than a Blogger blog can have. Like the plug-ins that you can install and the full control of your blog. Blogger and WordPress provide a friendly environment for bloggers. But most find blogging easy with Blogger. However, its limitations force bloggers to use WordPress.

I wanted to export my posts to WordPress. But I don’t want to lose a single post because maybe they are highly ranked in Google for key terms or for its search engine optimized permalinks. Or maybe I was just dreaming while writing this post. I know I am not there yet but maybe soon!

In exporting your posts from Blogger to WordPress, make sure to set your WordPress permalinks “exactly” the way that blogger has them or else you can lose all your indexed pages. This way you were able to export over all your files from blogger without losing one post.

Blogger format of blogging is easy and is user friendly but is quite tiring. Also, there are many limitations using Blogger and you just couldn’t do what you want to do. You are not in control of your blog. So if you can do blogging now with WordPress, do it now. You can also make websites and not just blog using WordPress. WordPress is easy to use just as Blogger.

Microsoft criticized by Cuba for blocking Messenger

Microsoft has disabled the use of its instant messaging service to 5 countries: Syria, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Cuba. Internet users from these countries could no longer connect to Windows Live Messenger.

Last Friday, Cuba criticized Microsoft Messenger to block its instant messaging service to the islands and other countries under U.S. sanctions, calls this another example of Washington "inhumane" treatment of Havana. The Windows Live Messenger was used to island for a decade, without interference from Microsoft.

The technology giant recently announced the availability of programs in Cuba, Syria, Iran, Sudan and North Korea to comply with a U.S. ban on transfer of software licenses to countries subject to embargo.

Juventud Rebelde, a technology writer, says in an article published by state youth newspaper that the move was " just the latest turn of the screw in the United States' technological blockade against the island". He stressed that the ban for the transfer of technology was a severe violation of Cuban rights.

Read full article on sfgate: Cuba criticizes Microsoft blocking Messenger

From the five countries that Microsoft blocked, only Cuba had criticised Microsft and I have not hear from the other countries.

Bing is Now Open for Beta

I thought the launch will be on June 3rd as what I've read on Mashable . But then It was now on its Beta phase. Or I guess I read it wrong or something. You should be now trying its Beta phase and compare it to Google. I got a little comment on the Beta page. I am not surprise with it. It is decent but, I did not feel something new with it.

I've tried the search. I entered other blogs name like PinoyMoneyTalk and other authority sites like YouTube and the results were great. I notice that when I try to search it displays related searches on the left side. It also gives short summary of the content when you point your mouse over the result and auto plays videos. But it is not that different to the Live Search. Nothing was surprising as promised.

I've search my blog on Bing but nothing appears. Of course I haven't submitted my URL to them because Google was my priority. But I did submit my URL while writing this post.

Enough of my comments and try it for yourself now. Comeback here and tell me what did you experience new about it, if in case there is :D