We usually hyperfocus on Google Place search and Maps results, since they have such large market share. But there are good reasons for local businesses to be concerned with ranking elsewhere as well. So, here are a few other local search engines to con…
Gabriel Stricker is still listed on Google as Director of Communications, Search. However he’s now VP of Communications for Twitter. He follows Karen Wickre, Google’s former Senior Media Liaison, who joined Twitter about seven months ago. A…
Social Media sites are gaining popularity among many online users because it is where they collaborate and talk to other people. Some even use social media to gain friends or find their loved ones. Almost every online user uses either Facebook or Twitt…
The good folks over at Stone Temple Consulting released an in-depth interview with Bing’s Principal Group Program Manager for Bing Social Search, Paul Yiu. The Bing social search team integrates social content and indicators into the search res…
Around this time last year, I showed you how to embed tweets in WordPress using the Twitter API.
Today, I want to improve on that script by adding a backup to it. Twitter is often down or unresponsive, and when it is, the previous script fails and displays nothing.
With a backup, we store an extra copy of each set of tweets that we find. When Twitter is down, we can then use this backup to display tweets as normal.
If you have a twitter account, you oftentimes find yourself looking for a way to display your latest tweets on your website or blog. This is pretty much a solved problem. There are jQuery plugins, PHP classes andtutorials that show you how to do this….
Twitter is one of the most amazing and popular social networking websites. It is growing very fast and the number of its daily users is increasing continuously. Twitter is also one of the smartest marketing tool. The services provided by
With the advent of social networking sites the standards of web development have really improved, Sharing what is on your mind can take less than 140 characters and more for other sites like facebook and the new kid on the block google plus.
In this …
Yandex is the next in line to gain access to the Twitter “firehose.” This morning the Russian search engine is announcing that it will begin integrating the Twitter feed into its search results. Twitter reported the deal to us late last wee…
I’ve written that Google has plenty of public data to allow parts its new Search Plus Your World feature to be inclusive of rival social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Now, those networks are proving that true, through a new “Don̵…