Don’t write Myspace off just yet!

Don’t write Myspace off just yet!

Are we about to witness one of the great comebacks of the Social Media age?

I have had a love/hate relationship with MySpace ever since I was introduced to the world’s first global Social network in late 2005. As a young hustling musician, MySpace was the perfect place to promote my band’s music (while also meeting girls at the same time).

Now I’m not going to write about the history of MySpace because Wiki and millions of others have already done great job. But it bears mention that the origins of what is now Jaden Social started on MySpace in early 2006, while the four of us were discovering the intricacies of online marketing and building a fanbase on MySpace.

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TweetSpinner: Scheduled Following & Unfollowing for Twitter

TweetSpinner: Scheduled Following & Unfollowing for Twitter

Of all the Twitter targeted following/unfollowing tools, TweetSpinner would have to be the one with the most sophisticated set of filters and schedules. It allows you to have far greater control over the users you target, while reducing the amount of manual work to be done.

You start out with Spinner by adding in your search keywords, hashtags and usernames, then setting values for each of the relevant filters (of which there are A LOT). Once you have done this, you can then switch on the Schedule function – which begins to automatically generate a list of results based on these search and filter values.

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Bitly: Keep Your Links Short & Sweet

Bitly: Keep Your Links Short & Sweet

Bitly (formerly known as Bit.Ly) is the world’s best link shortener. What it does, in a nutshell, is shorten long web URLs into smaller links, leaving you with more character space to compose the all-important body of your Tweet. Your links should end up looking something like this:

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