Twelve ways to get retweeted

Social media wizard Dan Zarrella, author of The Social Media Marketing Book, has won rave reviews from industry players like Guy Kawasaki and Brian Solis. Zarrella was in Washington, D.C., recently for the Gov 2.0 conference and led a presentation on why certain pieces of content go viral. Ideas do not spread because they are “good,” he said. [...]

Turning to Twitter for stock advice

Timm Sprenger of the Technical University of Munich is part of a team that studied more than 100,000 tweets mentioning German political parties to correctly predict the outcome of the last German election. Now he’s turning his attention to how Twitter can help investors predict the performance of the financial market. Sites like StockTwits and [...]

Go, Go, Gov 2.0!

I’m covering Gov 2.0 for SmartBrief this week, live-tweeting from @sbosm in the mornings and blogging for the SmartBlog every day. Here’s my post for today, on how to improve your content’s chances of going viral. Watch this space for an expanded version of Dan Zarrella‘s advice in the next couple of days.

Pakistan is the new China

Pakistan is now blocking proxy servers, specific Twitter accounts and news stories. What’s even more crazy-making is that there are angry mobs out there showing public support for this, and all the sane people are too scared to speak up. Heck, even Pervez Musharraf says it’s a great idea. Farieha Aziz, an assistant editor for [...]