Twitter is cool but you only get 140 characters for each Tweet, so you have to brief.

That’s not as hard as you think. Short sharp and to the point messages are usually the best anyway.

But, as often as not, we as IMers want to include a link in our tweets back to our sites, blogs or even the merchant (although I wouldn’t recommend you include affiliate links – just too ‘hard sell’ for Twitter).

Use Twinfluence.com to find out how much influence YOU have in the Twitter Community.

I’ve got over 3 million ’second order’ followers with a high social influence but a fragile centralization. I’m sure this is gonna make me $millions. I don’t like centralization so I don’t care about that one.

Check out your influenza score now! Smoking hot or have you caught a cold?

Twitter Grader – How Do You Rate?

Use TwitteGrader.com to find out how YOU rate in the Twitter Community.

Check out who’s top of the Twitter Elite tree in your location.

Who’s the Tops where I am? I’ll give you three guesses…

Twitter Elite – Middlesbrough

LOL!

(And I didn’t cheat, honest!)

The Changing Face of Facebook!

You’ve probably heard the latest ‘buzz’ about the MASSIVE changes taking place on Facebook.

Even if you haven’t, don’t sweat it, and there are no real major changes at all… more changes in the way we as marketers should be using it.

In a nutshell most people (and there are 175,000,000 of them) use Facebook to communicate with their friends, family, work friends, etc. And that’s what you should do… on your personal account.

Well it must be Squidoo Freebie Day! LOL!

On top of Des’ great Squidoo guides I’ve just pointed you at on the post below, I now have the pleasure of telling you about a great FREE Squidoo guide from the one and only PotPieGirl of OneWeekMarketing fame.

Not only is PPG (Jennifer) an ANC member, she’s also a great friend and superb teacher.

Hey! Let me tell you our new Niche Marketing Reaper lens has really stormed into the Squid!

If you haven’t checked it out yet, head on over here and do so now because I’ve added some really cool additions.

First, I’ve added a genuine pucker Opt-in form right there on the lens. You can’t do that, right? Well you can if you’ve got friends like mine…

Ho! Ho! I’ve just added a new fun Squidoo lens to the AffiliateNicheClub stable.

Check out Niche Marketing Reaper here!

It’s all just for fun (and donates to ‘Big Cat Rescue’… what else? LOL!)

It’s an ‘Affiliate Marketing’ fun lens and you can vote for your favourite (or least favourite) AM video or ‘Guru’ or even add your own faves. Fancy a flame war? Fire away.

Twitter Breaking News!

No, not breaking news on Twitter but Twitter on breaking news, follow?

OK… maybe not. Bare with me…

You will have noticed that we’ve added a Business News page on the blog. From there you can access the major breaking news stories from around the world as they happen. Pretty cool, right? It’s more important than ever now to keep up to date as the big ‘D‘ approaches. OK, but get this…