Tyre Shopper, has been awarded a Hitwise Top 10 award for the whole of 2008. That means that TS was in the top ten in its category (Automotive/Shopping) for the whole year. The other top tenners were:
If you want to see all of the other categories have a look here
When you start twittering you quickly realise that nobody's really interested in what you had for breakfast or what colour your socks are today. Facebook is a much better tool for that!
What you also realise quite quickly is that there are a huge number of twitterers constantly twittering about stuff you are actually quite interested in. The obvious one for me is my beloved City (twitter.com/search?q=manchester+city). Having found that, and started following a few of the twitterers, I then started looking on a more professional basis. http://twitter.com/search?q=seo+help lists a whole load of people offering and requesting help on search engine optimisation. Are any of them potential customers or partners for Silkmoth?
So maybe Twitter can benefit businesses!?
And now for the bad part. I've just received notification that I have three new followers, Anna, Kelly and Tammy. Lovely ladies I'm sure. Is it my good looks? My joie de vivre? Or is it just spam? It's spam - each one of those delightful dollies has a tweet telling me how they managed to get their free laptop and a link to the website where they got it from!
Footnote: I've just realised that those search links to twitter won't work unless you are logged in to Twitter - that's a bit rubbish too!
I have now joined the massed ranks of Twitter users. But I have a confession, I just don't get it! Well, not yet anyway.
Over the next few weeks I'm going to try to understand Twitter, the people who use it and whether or not it's something worth being a part of. If you want to follow my 160 character or less status updates you can do that here citytwitty. My first experience was a bad one. I couldn't get my own name as my username. I tried the usual combinations; carl, carldean, carl.dean, carl-dean (btw Twitter doesn't allow non alphanumberic characters so anything with a .,-*&^%$ etc. isn't allowed). I even tried a few amusing ones, twithead, twittw*t but all to no avail. I had a similar experience on eBay when I joined that years ago. I could have used the same name that I ended up with on eBay but Twitter is about sharing your thoughts, activities and other personal stuff with the world at large. There's a danger that with this knowledge somebody might figure out my eBay password or worse still my PayPal one. So the anonymity of CityTwitty it is.
Follow me if you can be bothered, but I won't hold it against you if you don't.
The elves are back...