#TittyTuesday #FollowFriday and other sexy hashtags

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Sexy Woman blowing hashtag kissesWant to tap into the larger Twitter world and reach people beyond your followers?  Hashtags are your key to the Twitterverse, and keywords are the spare keys you hide under the false rock in your garden.

Hashtags are words with a # in front of them. You will often see multiple words strung together into one, almost unintelligible, jumble of letters.  For instance #deletemynumberif, which is trending as I write this. If you were to space this out it would read “delete my number if”.  To make it easier to differentiate words, people will often capitalize the beginning of each word. The tag would then look like: #DeleteMyNumberIf. This makes it easier to read when stringing the words together.

What makes hashtags such a powerful tool is that they are easy to track and easy to follow. When someone uses one in a post, you can just click the tag and it will show you all the other tweets using that same tag. You can also search for specific hashtags. There is a website that shows you the popularity, and rate of posting, of hashtags. Go to Hashtag.org to see the influence of any hashtag.

Here is a list of popular hashtags and their rate for being tweeted. Now, .07% might seem low, but the average number of tweets sent per day is 140 million. So .07% is 98,000 tweets – and that’s a lot!

  • #TittyTuesday .07%
  • #Sexy #.25%
  • #FollowFriday .09%
  • #FF 1.73% (this is a more popular hashtag for #FollowFriday)

Keywords are searchable, but not clickable. This means you can use Twitter search to look for the keywords, but if you use them in a post they will not be clickable.  One thing nice about keywords is that they do not have to be pushed together to form one nearly illegible word, they can be a series of words with spaces. This also means they are harder to spot as being keywords. However, if you use good keywords you can tap into some great trending topics.

Another way to tap into trending topics is to look at your Twitter feed. On the right side menu, there is a topic called “Trending” that will show you what is currently trending.  You can also go to sites like WhatTheTrend.com to see this. The site will also tell you why something is trending. For instance, “Hard Nipples” is trending. Well, you might think, of course it is trending! Who doesn’t like hard nipples?  Well this is not trending because of any Twitter After Dark action.  It is trending because a judge from America’s Best Dance Crew said something about his nipples getting hard in response to a pole dance. Ok, so maybe it should be a part of Twitter After Dark.

But just because it does not originate in adult does not mean that you can’t capitalize on it.  You have an audience that is specifically paying attention to this keyword. Tweet it out and use the keyword; you might reach an audience you don’t normally get to talk to.

Keywords and hashtags are significantly under used in adult tweets.  If you want to reach your audience, and broaden your audience, be strategic – use hashtags and keywords!

 

 

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10 Reasons to Tweet with Porn Stars

 

Porn Stars on Twitter

Porn stars are sexy, flirty and show you boobies!

People ask me all the time why people follow porn stars. My first response is usually why not follow porn stars?! But it is undeniable that porn stars have a corner in the market of Twitter. They get huge numbers of followers and are some of the most popular and influential accounts on Twitter.  So why is that?

Here is a list that outlines why people love to tweet with porn stars.

 

10 Reasons to Tweet with Porn Stars

  1. They post pictures of their boobies
  2. Fans like to know that porn stars are people too
  3. People like to talk about sex and no one does it better than a porn star
  4. They post pictures of other peoples boobies
  5. They talk about the sex they have had, are having, and are going to have
  6. They flirt without worry
  7. Fans like to know what films the stars are working on and what is coming up
  8. Behind the scene photos
  9. They share candid pics that you would never normally see
  10. They are hot!

Ultimately porn stars are stars. Though most are not Hollywood stars, they are stars in their niche.  What makes them so much more interesting than Hollywood stars is that they are accessible.  If you tweet a porn star, there is a good chance they will Tweet you back.  Go tell @JesseJane that she is beautiful. She will likely say something, or tweet a cute emoticon back to you.

So they talk about sex, flirt with you, show you their boobies, show you their friends boobies, and talk to you. So ask me again why you would want to follow a porn star?

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4 Mobile Twitter Apps, 1 Winner!

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Friday Feature Photo: Teagan Presley's Adult Trading Card

Friday Feature Photo: The amazingly sexy Teagan Presley

Adult conferences are going on all year. You might be going to consumer shows or business to business. But if you are going to the shows and you are on Twitter then you know the importance, and frustration, of mobile Twitter apps.  When you are at the shows you need to be able to easily tweet pics and updates. You need to be able to talk to the fans who are tweeting you and generally manage your Twitter account. The last thing you want to worry about it if your mobile Twitter app is going to work.

So now take this problem and multiply it by multiple accounts and you have my problem.  Though some people only have one account, there are many of us out there who tweet from multiple accounts. Sometimes they might be clients we work for, or brands and stars that we manage. Some might be various stars who have multiple Twitter accounts for different purposes of their public brand strategy.

Regardless of managing one or many Twitter accounts, you need to have an mobile app that works well.

TwitBird Pro

Do you have a mobile Twitter app that you like? why?

I may have found a new favorite mobile Twitter app. For most people they only tweet from one account. So using something like the Twitter mobile or Hootsuite works just fine. I am what you would call a power user. I tweet from roughly a dozen twitter accounts. How do I keep up with it all? Well, that is a different conversation. Because I am a power user I need an app that can keep up with me while I keep up with the Joneses.

Hootsuite Mobile

I was using this for a while. Their UI (user interface) was the most preferable. It was easy to go between account, add lists and searches, keep track of mentions, DMs and Retweets. But I was limited to 5 accounts. Beyond that I find the core account management of Hootsuite to be very limiting for a team.

So this was not sufficient for my needs.

Twitter Mobile

Um, yeah. This one was incredibly limited. It made retweeting really difficult as it was not allowing quoted retweets. A quoted retweet is where you comment on a tweet before you retweet it. ie. Funny! @funnyman my cat is nuts! See her eat almonds The Funny! would be the quoted retweet part. As I rarely retweet without a comment to promote engagement, this was an issue. Oh yeah, you can only tweet from one account. It is not a hub for multiple accounts.

No go.

Tweetdeck Mobile

I love Tweetdeck. They are likely my favorite Twitter manager for multiple accounts. You are not limited to the number of accounts you use. You can easily manage and monitor lists, DMs, mentions, retweets and searches. You can do quoted retweets. In their mobile they even had an extra special column that listed all the mentions from all your accounts in one panel. Love it! …except that it crashed all the time and I had to reinstall it 5 times over the course of one conference weekend. I also found their UI to be great on my laptop and really difficult to manage on my mobile devise. #Fail

Summary

I have tried others and they all roughly had the same core issues.

  • Don’t manage multiple accounts
  • Don’t do quoted retweets
  • Crash
  • Bad UI making it very cumbersome to use.
  • Slow

The Winner

TwitBird

I have recently started using TwitBird. They have a free and a pro version. The pro cost $2.99 and can manage up to 16 accounts. The free version manages 2. The UI is more like Hootsuite, except it is categorized by account, making it easier to keep track of what is happening in that account. So far (fingers are crossed) it is able to handle the multiple accounts without crashing and without being confusing. I can easily send quoted retweets and it is super easy to add people to lists.

Overall, if you only have one Twitter profile or manage multiple, I would highly recommend this app.

Teagan Presley is this weeks Friday Feature Photo. Her limited edition Adult Trading Card is incredibly sexy. I first came to know Teagan as MsTeagan on Twitter. She is an avid tweetie who is great at convo, shares good multi-media content and talks about everything from tv shows to her sexy projects.

Follow Teagan at @MsTeagan

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5 Tips to boost your Facebook SEO

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Is your Facebook Fan Page boosting your brand?

SEO, or search engine optimization, is not just for website. You can also optimize your Facebook Fan Page for better search results. Not only will this help your searches inside Facebook, but it will help with traditional search engines like Google and Bing. Plus, not only are you increasing your brand visibility for your Facebook Fan Page, but you are increasing the total visibility of your brand.

 

70% of brands have not optimized their fan pages and are missing out on some great search engine ranking.

5 Tips to boost your Facebook SEO

  1. Get a vanity URL
    The number one thing you need to do is get a vanity URL. This means that your URL is www.facebook.com/brand instead of www.facebook.com/page/brand=87465249Tech Tip: If you can’t get your actual brand name then get a vanity URL with your most used search term.
  2. Link to your Facebook Fan Page

    Linking to your fan page from your website will let you capitalize on the SEO done on your website. It gives you an in bound link which will help boost your FB SEO. In fact link from all your pages. The more links the better the SEO boost.    Tech Tip: Make sure your anchor text is something like “Brand Name on Facebook” and link it to your vanity url, ie. www.facebook.com/brandname not www.facebook.com/brandname=sk?872635
  3. Use your brand name in your post

    Search engines scan the content of your page. If you use your brand name it helps boost the SEO for name recognition.    Tech Tip: Now you can tag the text in your posts for added SEO boost.
  4. Get links to your posts
    Get people to like your posts. The more people share and like your posts the better the SEO value.  Plus Likes count as links!Tech Tip: Post things that ask for social engagement, either comments, sharing and likes. This will drive up your engagement and thus your FB SEO
  5. Use Fan Boxes
    Facebook lets you put Fan Boxes on your website that can show your fans and show your recent posts. This is a good way to build engagement as well as drive more fans to your site.Tech Tip: If you don’t have many fans yet, set your fan box to show recent posts until you get more than 25 fans.

 


 

Feature Friday Photo: Alison Tyler's Adult Trading Card

Feature Friday Photo: The beautiful Alison Tyler on her very sexy Adult Trading Card

 

Alison Tyler is our Friday Feature Photo on her very sexy trading card from Adult Trading Card Company, follow them on Twitter @ATCCompany  Follow her on Twitter @MissTylerXXX

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Twitter gets Fancy

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Fancy Twitter BirdTwitter has just announced a new feature. You now have the ability to see your friends timeline. Essentially what this does is let you see what you friends see when they login to their Twitter. The argument for this is that if you are following an influencer you might be interested in the type of tweets they are interested in, in order to expand your network or learn from their Twitter style. The reality is that most of the people who are considered influencers follow a lot of people, so it is unlikely that use their primary timeline for monitoring their feed. They likely use lists to follow the people they are truly interested in.

List are something you have always been able to view, unless the person has set the list as private. So in essence, you have always been able to see the feeds of the people your influencers timeline, or at least the one they pay attention to.

I use a listing strategy for growing networks and for managing my tweets. I categorize the people I follow into groups that are relevant to my usage of Twitter. For instance, I have an “Adult” list that features people who are in the adult industry but not porn-stars. For the porn-stars I have an “Adult Stars” list. So if you were interested to see what timelines I watch, I would recommend looking at my lists or the lists of the other influencers you pay attention to.

Feature Friday Photo: Adult Trading Card Misti Dawn

Feature Friday Photo: The incredibly sexy Adult Trading Card of Misti Dawn.

The new “friends timeline” feature is being rolled out slowly across Twitter. Most people do not have it yet and as more people get it I am sure we will start seeing some feedback. Though likely it will not drastically change the way people are using Twitter.

This is the third big announcement from Twitter in the past week.

Earlier this week they announced the acquisition of Tweetdeck, a third party app that is used for managing your Twitter account. Tweetdeck is a favorite among marketers, promoters and companies that need to monitor multiple twitter streams. It is great for monitoring engagement and lists. In fact, I use it!

Twitter also changed their email notifications to be more robust. Now when someone mentions you or gives you a retweet, Twitter will send you a notification to let you know. This is great to be able to keep up with your Twitter via email. Though, if you are like me and don’t like your email box being filled with email notifications, I would suggest turning off the option in your Twitter settings.

These were not the only updates, I am seeing little ones poking their heads out slowly to reveal themselves, like some changes in the search function, and listing people now opens up a new window instead of a drop down menu.

So it was a big week in the Twitterverse, but for many of us these changes are not really affecting the way that we will continue our engagement. But it did answer the question about why so many people were having issues with their Twitter, like their profiles not showing any tweets or showing no followers…it was all the updates.

Now they are done and hopefully things will return to business as usual.

The Adult Trading Card for Misti Dawn is this weeks Friday Feature Photo. Misti is a super sexy tattooed red head. She has a great twitter feed that is very interactive. She is funny and easy to talk to. Her website has an amazing retro gaming theme which made me fall in love with her immediately. Her ATC Card really captures how sexy and vuluptous she is but also shows a wonderfully vulnerable and alluring side to her personality.

Misti great, follow her on Twitter @meowmistidawn, visit her website at MeowMistiDawn.com

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A good use for True Twit Spam?

 

Woman on a computer saying "I wouldn't mind the spam half as much if they would send me more pictures of naked men."

Spam is unwanted email. Are you sending spam before you send your spam?

Finally a good use for True Twit Validation! As you probably know I do not like True Twit Validation. In my opinion it is the most commonly accepted form of Twitter spam. However, today I received a True Twit email that actually made good use of the application.

True Twit advertises itself as helping you prevent spammers and to keep you from having your DM’s and newsfeed filled with spam bots. However, the only way it does this is if you auto-follow people back. Otherwise someone following you does not affect your spam at all. You cannot receive DM’s from people who you don’t follow nor will they be in your timeline. Only people who you follow are in your timeline.  So now you are the person sending the unwanted DM to the person who is trying to follow you.  Not only are you essentially cock blocking their follow, but you are generally being annoying for no real reason.  But that changed.

I received a True Twit email that said:

Please verify your Twitter account so they can follow me afterwards.

That little bit at the end was the first time I felt a validation email gave me real reason to validate. If you auto-follow people back, you are ensuring that you do not auto-follow bots.  However, you are now giving the person a reason to validate because you are promising a follow back.

I still think that True Twit is spam.  I still think that no one should use it and that the only reason most people do use it is because they get really tired of filling out the stupid CAPTCHAs. There are still many people out there who will never fill out the validation and would rather not follow you than go to True Twit.  So even if you are using it to vet your auto-follows, you are still propagating the spam. In fact, most people think that if you are willing to start off a Twitter relationship with spam, that it is likely you will continue to send spam for as long as I am following you.

If you really need to vet all the people you follow, use a tool like socialoomph.com which lets you do that before following people but without clogging their email box with spam.

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5 Tips for Live Tweeting

Adult Trading Card Diamond Kitty

Feature Friday Photo: They sexy & voluptuous Diamond Kitty.

I am totally tweeting this

Live tweeting is nothing more than tweeting about an event as it is happening.  But it can be a great tool to share your experience and report from an event and about an event.

Events and conferences are the perfect place to tweet live. It is a great way to share your experiences with your followers and get people more involved with what you are doing. Live tweeting also shows that you are relevant and active in current events, and not someone who only tweets in retrospect. Additionally, it is good way to network with other people at the conference.

  1. Hashtags– Most events will have a hashtag associated with the event. Make sure that you use that tag and tag all your tweets from the event with the tag.  This will let people know what you are tweeting about, and where you are tweeting from. Plus other people from the conference will be able to see your tweets and you might be able to set up some networking opportunities.
  2. Tell People– Let people know that you will be live tweeting.  Anyone who is interested in the show, but not there, will be likely to follow your tweets to get a first hand account of what is happening.
  3. Share you pics!– Take pics of the show. Remember a picture says 1000 words and twitter is limited to 140 character tweets.  Pics are a great way to share your experiences from the conference.  Tools like TwitPic are great for posting your pics on Twitter.
  4. Archive your tweets– You can keep a copy of all your tweets from the event by archiving the hashtag.  A great app for this is Twapper Keeper they will track a hashtag for you and create an archive that you can access later. This is great for blogging or being able to go over all the convo’s happening from the show when you have more time to look at what other people were saying.
  5. Live in the now– Don’t get so caught up in tweeting that you take yourself away from what is happening.  Use tools like speech to text to help you type. But mainly, make sure that you are enjoying with is happening right now, because as great a live tweeting is. You can always write about it later!

Diamond Kitty is this weeks Feature Friday Photo.  The Adult Trading Card of her on the beach seemed fitting as we are gearing up for Exxotica Miami. Make sure that you follow her on Twitter @DiamondKittyXXX and ask her for a card!  Also follow @ATCCompany to see who has their own new sexy ATC card!…and they are a lot of fun to tweet with.

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SEO vs. Social Media: The Traffic Throw Down

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Click-throughs and stickiness are two paramount issues for web businesses. Click-throughs are the number of people who click on a link, and stickiness is the amount of time someone stays on your site.  There is always contradictory information about the issues of sticky click-throughs and social media.  Some people say that social media is not as good as traditional SEO.  Some people say that it is better.  I am here to tell you that they are both right.

Xbiz just posted a story reporting that social media generates less traffic than search. When you dig deeper, the breakdown is not as simple as that. There was a huge variance according to industry.  For instance, the study showed that 42% of new visitors to news sites came from social media, but for sports sites it was only 5%. Overall search traffic still dominated the majority of unique visitor traffic, however social media unique visitor traffic, while only 11%, was on the rise.

What Xbiz did not highlight was that the study was not specifically related to Adult, and it does not have any figures that highlight the trends in Adult Industry. It was a look at all web traffic to all kinds of sites.

The study was conducted by Outbrain, a company which provides widgets to publishers, designed to keep readers on their sites longer. What the study also published was the chart of the top traffic sources for websites:

Top 20 Traffic Sources from Outbrain

Notice that Facebook is in the top 5 and Twitter is in the top 10.

What they also did not tell you is there is no mention at all of the Adult Industry. In fact, when you look at the findings it actually looks unlikely that they considered Adult entertainment at all.

Does this make the study irrelevant to Adult? No. It is still relevant to some extent – what it does tell you is that SEO is still an important aspect for creating a strong web presence.  In fact, SEO is relevant for social media as well.  Social media is about relationships; SEO is about clicks.

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I heard it from a Porn Star! News of Osama dominates Social Media

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President Obama Twitter Word Map

A Twitter word map of the iconic President Obama portrait. Created by Jeff Clark

On May 1, Sunday night, President Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden had been killed by a strategic U.S. strike. This news hit the Internet faster than you can believe. It was all over Twitter and Facebook within seconds of the world wide announcement.

Cries of happiness, support, jubilation, horror, anger, and upset were heard as far and as fast as fingers could tweet. Some people just spread the news, others commented on how the world is a better place without him, some were horrified that people were celebrating a man’s death. No matter how you felt about the announcement, social media was giving a world-wide voice to the news and the range of emotions that followed it.

In fact, the questions  “where were you when you heard…” and “how did you hear?” are already being asked all over the net. Mashable immediately launched a “How did you hear about Bin Laden’s death?” poll.

Want to know how I heard? On Twitter from a porn star!

It is true.  It goes to show that Adult stars participate in world events, just like the rest of us. Right now I feel like I am doing a “See, they [fill in space with mundane activity] like the rest of us” bit from the trash magazines like US Weekly. But it is true.  The Adult Industry participates in major world events and social media trends like the rest of us.  So read how the announcement spread across the social webs and know that the Adult world contributed!

The new spread like wildfire throughout the online world.

President Obama’s announcement was streamed live by the White House, and by the end of the speech tweets reached more than 4000 tweets per second.

Within minutes, someone created an “Osama Bin Laden is DEAD” Facebook fan page and within a couple hours of its creation it had gone viral, with more than a quarter of a million fans.

The hashtag #Osama was trending and occupying 18% of Twitter chatter.

On Foursquare, people started swarming at Ground Zero, and for those of you who don’t know what swarming is, it is when a lot of people (usually more than 10) check into a location at the same time.

Locations on Foursquare were being created called “Osama is dead” and “Osama bin Gonathon” allowing people to check in to a world that did not have Osama Bin Laden in it.

This was a monumental event. Because the world community is online, we are able to experience this momentous occasion together. The voices being shared across the various social networks have created a world unified through a historical event and the solidarity of a true global community.

“[T]onight, we are once again reminded that America can do whatever we set our mind to. That is the story of our history, whether it’s the pursuit of prosperity for our people, or the struggle for equality for all our citizens; our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place.

Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. May God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.”

– President Obama

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