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Stealing customers from competitors on Twitter?

I am currently running a very simple side project which I hope will lead to something bigger. I see quite a few tweets from my competitors customers saying they're using their product for a ...
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Would it be beneficial for an internet startup to give money to twitter followers?

I need to generate some traffic for a internet startup and have been brainstorming ideas. My budget is limited, so I came up with the idea to give money to people who follow my startup on twitter. Not ...
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Suggestions for marketing a Twitter app to new users

Technical Background: I have an application that relies heavily on the Twitter API. This app is genuinely very useful for Twitter users across the board but especially for Twitter users who want to ...
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Marketing of a Tweetdeck type app [closed]

Is it possible to estimate the cost of acquiring 1 million users for an app similar to tweetdeck, but with different, unique features? Thank you in advance. Awni H.
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Why is this fever of getting followers on twitter?

My twitter account is followed by hundreds of proposing me to return following, to get software for and learn techniques for getting thousands of followers. But why? I personally read most of all ...
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Building a twitter feed of links for my site's demographic

I'd like to build an RSS feed for my website's twitter. It would be a feed of links that interest my user demographic-- college students.. the links would be funny, informative, interesting, etc. ...
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Facebook, twitter, Google, which is the best marketing place? [closed]

Is it better to do marketing on Facebook or twitter than Google?
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What questions about twitter marketing would you most like to have tested?

I'm organizing a small group to perform some twitter experiments, testing different methods and uses of twitter for marketing (and by marketing, I mean contributing to business goals, whether they be ...
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How should I use Google Buzz?

While twitter has proven to be a great tools to get the word out about your ideas, there has been less hype about how Buzz can do similar things. I'm curious as to whether Buzz is just a tool for ...
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How do you see Facebooks 'Like' and 'Share' buttons interacting now? (discussion) [closed]

I've been using the Facebook 'Share' buttons across a few websites for a while now. On my personal blog (linked in profile) I've added Facebooks new 'like' buttons as well as a few of the other new ...
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Twitter vs Company Blog

I read many of the useful answers to questions on this site like: Should I use my personal blog as my company blog? To blog or not to blog? Joel Spolsky says no to blogging... ...
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Multiple twitterers / one company

I'm pretty new to twitter ( http://twitter.com/roadbud). I'm hoping to build customer relationships, provide customer service, engage people with blog, and lead prospects towards our product (iPhone ...
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How to promote a twitter crowdsourcing contest?

I created a twitter crowdsourcing contest to get some tagline help and raise pre-launch awareness (build a great tagline and get an iPhone). http://roadbud.com/iphone-contest/ The problem is, I'm new ...
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Twitter subscription spam

Personally I've no idea about how to use twitter for marketing other than opening a twitter account and posting links about our product. Today I was looking one of our competitors account there were ...
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What's the most interesting Twitter strategy that you've seen a startup use?

It seems like most startups on Twitter use one of two strategies: 1) Broadcast links & information about the company. 2) Broadcast links & information about the industry related to the ...
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Can Twitter really help to get users to a community site, and why?

Can Twitter really help to get users to a community site, and why? I have read recommendations to use Twitter to market a community site, but I really don't understand how or why it can bring more ...