Moving one step a head using Twitter through my cellphone

I can't describe my excitement at this time :-), all because i'm now able to tweet through my stupid little old cellphone which is not even GPRS enabled using iSMS service. Its a free service, but the only thing is since its the beta version, its Invite only. I got the invitation when i commented on this post at Bhonpoo, and so every one who joins gets to invite 10 more people to join the service. Once you invite some one and they accept the invitation and join the service, you get 5 more invites added to your account, which is a wonderful way of growing.
Once you are being invited by someone, you receive an email, you create your account, you put in your cellphone number and you start recieving sms from iSMS server. Than you integrate your twitter account simply by putting in your twitter name and password and start tweeting simply by typing tweet "140 characters of message" and send to iSMS server. It will be updated in seconds.
If you wanna send me a tweet after you have joined you can do it by typing zeesh "140 characters of message" and send it to iSMS server.
Alrite, so far this is an awesome service for me, i am assuming i can now tweet atleast 50 times more than i used to do before, because now twitter is handy, now its in my pocket all the time, i can tweet before i go to bed, i can tweet when the power is out and it's all free and hopefully it will remain free :-). So i'm simply lovin it.
Leave a comment here to get the invites, only 10 available right now....!!

Please Retweet by clicking here if you like the service and want other to use it.

10+ Best Twitter Tools You Better Be Aware Of

I am back :-) with another post on twitter. I can't help it guys, this one thing is driving me so crazy i really can not help posting about it again and again. This time its the Twitter Tools.
We see at least a dozen new Twiter tools every other day, So i thought why not sharing the best of the best that are available and are used more often. The title of the post says 10+ Best... So i am gonna share..lets say 10. And rest can come from you guys. Because i know you all have your own favorites and you all wanna share them. So why not here too.

These are some tools you should really be using/be aware of if you love TWITTER.

TweetDeck
Sleek Adobe Air desktop client for Twitter offering a good overview with several panes.


twhirl | the social software client
Yet another popular Twitter clients.


Twellow :: Twitter Search Directory, Twitter Search Engine
Twellow is the “Yellow Pages” of Twitter. I personally love this great service.



Magpie: Make Money on Twitter
Magpie is an ad-network for Twitter. It boast that users can make something like 50 to 200$ a month just by tweeting.


Twitstat.com - Twitter Analytics
Both a Twitter search engine and popularity stats at the same time (e.g: showing most active users).



Tweetburn and Tweetroll
This is yet another great service. You can find people related to your niche on Twitter and they provide a great Twitter widget named Tweetroll.


Twitturly - Real-time Link Tracking on Twitter
Digg-like interface for the currently hot tweets.




TwitterFox – naan studio
Simple but effective and popular Twitter Firefox add on.



Crowdstatus.com
This tool allows you to create address groups of people at Twitter and notify all of them at once.



FriendOrFollow
This is one great service, I personally took a lot of advantage from this service. After using this, You will have no complaints regarding people who don't follow you back. You will love it.


Share Your favorite Twitter tools and Tips In the comments below and spread the word. Also don't forget to tell how many of the above services are you using and how was your experience :-)

Has my Blog really gone viral??

Only God knows in what conditions i am making this blog post, I haven't slept for more than 30 hours, its getting tougher for me to manage my business classes along with a full time job and of course i have some (real) social life as well.

Ok, so here's the thing, I am making this blog post only because something extra ordinary has happened and is still happening with my recent post How to put a Retweet link in your Tweets. As you all can clearly see, my blog is quite messed up at the moment and it's only been a couple of months I started blogging, out of which the first month passed out only learning how to blog.

First of all i would like to thank @Dhollings for providing such a great tip, and just to spread his word i made a quite similar post and believe me or not, the only reason was, so that people start Retweeting more and more and in this way interesting articles and blog posts may get the traffic and the kind of responce they actually deserve.

This is what happened when i used my own technique to put the Retweet link in my Tweet.
I obviously don't have time to count the number of followers my tweet reached.

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  SKFPR: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  rampcreative: Cool tip! rt @zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in yourTweets http://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
  
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  michaelgass: How to put a Retweet link in your Tweets http://snipr.com/ad0oy
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  dpatil: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  scott_loadstorm: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  jaymchugh: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  PleaseRetweet: RT Check out How to put a Retweet link in your tweets herehttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h (expand), Please Retweet by clicki..http://tinyurl.com/7cw984
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  Derek7877: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
  
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  mayhemstudios: RT @ShawnRobinson How to put a Retweet link in yourTweets - http://fleck.com/4sAJf
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  alagami: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  bsclark81: Reading: "How to put a Retweet link in your Tweets" -- Important Info ( http://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  5starhiphopExc1: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  teabreakdotpk: [TB] How to put a Retweet link in your Tweets: Hello people, I have been really busy lately since my univers.. http://tinyurl.com/8n34yy
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  alanlhammond: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  qmyf1984: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  NitaJoy: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  howtotweets: RT: @mayhemstudios RT @ShawnRobinson How to put a Retweetlink in your Tweets - http://fleck.com/4sAJf & .. http://tinyurl.com/79jdbd
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  webtechman: @mayhemstudios RT @ShawnRobinson How to put a Retweet linkin your Tweets - http://fleck.com/4sAJf & Encode: http://tinyurl.com/RT-encode
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  bryanelliott1: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  claywhitehead: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  mayhemstudios: RT @ShawnRobinson How to put a Retweet link in yourTweets - http://fleck.com/4sAJf
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  ShawnRobinson: How to put a Retweet link in your Tweets -http://fleck.com/4sAJf
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  joelgoschalk: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
  
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  vonfibus: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
  
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  mrpower: The link that has been retweeted the most in the last 24 hours is YelloW cAndy: How to put a Retweet link in your Tweets. For chrisesakes!
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  masamuneto: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  SolSie: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  GBlancLaine: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h Very good tip! Not obvious and good to know!
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  imdwalrus: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  tweetalkme: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  tweetalkme: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  j0j0r0: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  sugsugat: RT @zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  sillyjw: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  howtotweets: RT: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  iamgirlwonder: RT@zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://tinyurl.com/86qc3h
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  Retweetist: YelloW cAndy: How to put a Retweet link in your Tweetshttp://is.gd/gjQc (expand) (retweeted 42x http://is.gd/gjQe
  

Apart from this, my blog was being linked at some of the greatest blogs as you can see here at Techcrunch. For which i would really like to thank Techcrunch.

And in the end my special thanks to Retweetist for providing such a great backup support and marketing for my blog post and of course Thanks a lot to twitter for being so effective and essential. Twitter is the Future!

I have some more great ideas and tips through which we can play around with these tools more and get unbelievable amount of traffic everyday. Please comment here so that i can see how much am i appreciated and so that i'm encouraged enough to take out time and post some more articles.

How to put a Retweet link in your Tweets

Hello people, I have been really busy lately since my university started from 16th and along with a full time job and a social network (in real life) it gets pretty tougher to manage and still be able to take out time for blogging and socializing on web. But i am glad that i am back blogging again :-).

This post is to help all those who still don't know how to put RT link in their tweets to be able to make viral tweets, and spread their blog links on twitter and finally get more traffic to your blog through twitter.

OK its pretty simple

This is how you are gonna start, type http://twitter.com/home?status=

Than type your message like this,

http://twitter.com/home?status=RT @zeeshanraza How to put a Retweet link in your Tweets http://tinyurl.com/86qc3h

Now you wanna remove all the spaces in between with %20 and all the @ ("at" sign) and #(hashtag) with %40 and %23 respectively.

so now you get a pretty long and ugly looking URL like this

http://twitter.com/home?status=RT%40zeeshanraza%20How%20to%20put%20a%20Retweet%20link%20in%20your %20Tweets%20http://tinyurl.com/86qc3h

Test your URL in a web browser, and than shorten when it works fine.

thats it, now you are ready to tweet with a RT link.

http://tinyurl.com/76cwa5 this is the shorten URL.

If you like this and would like to share it, you can just CLICK HERE to Re tweet it :-)

I would like to say thanks to

@dhollings for providing this useful tip. 

The Terrorist may Twitter, says Army

Terrorists May Twitter, Army Says

Twitter for terrorism?
The US Army has posted a report citing certain mobile and web technologies that could be used to enable terrorism. One chapter, entitled "Potential for Terrorist Use of Twitter," observes that the Los Angeles earthquakes in July were reported by users of the microblogging site long before established news outlets had time to cover it, writes the BBC.

Perceiving Twitter's ability to publish anything, instantly, as threatening, US intelligence expressed concern that terrorists could use Twitter to plan and organize quicker attacks. This September, for example, activists used Twitter to organize protests at the Republican National Convention.

"Twitter is already used by some members to post and support extremist ideologies and perspectives," the report ominously states. Thus, "[terrorists] could theoretically use Twitter social networking in the US as an operational tool."

A Nielsen survey ranked Twitter one of the fastest-growing social networks year over year. Popular with early adopters in the tech blogosphere, the site drew partisan interest when Republican Representative John Culberson (TX) used it to vent frustrations over rules forbidding Congressmen from linking to certain sites on their official webpages.

Bloggers also flock to Twitter to discuss politics in real-time, and to liveblog the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates.

Other technologies mentioned in the US Army terrorism report include VOIP (which can make it difficult to trace malicious calls), Facebook, MySpace, certain gaming networks, and satellite navigation and mapping tools.

In particular, mobile navigation available on certain Nokia handsets was pegged as a potential outlet for "Specialist use in Marksmanship, Border Crossings and in Concealment of Supplies."

Why does people always have to relate every good thing with terrorism. Found this article on Marketingvox and thought of sharing it with you all.

My first enlightened month of blogging, December 2008

OK guys, I have been thinking of writing over this title for over 4 days every now and then, not that it was hard to write but it's just that I have been a little busy. I KNOW that this might look stupid, I mean why would someone wanna read a newbie's blogging experience right?? But I would still like to share and get your reviews on it.
It all started with blogger.com of course, I came up with something stupidly innovative, Yellow Candy, it just popped into my mind and I went along with it. Twitter helped me following different like minded people it was like a source of inspiration for me. I met a lot of people having dedicated blogs on Technology, and I realized most of the successful bloggers have a common niche, i.e Techno, I also noticed people have become trendy and they wait for a news to break up or a new gadget, plug in, software or a widget to fall in the market and they blog about it just than. It's kinda right too. This is how you manage to attract a large traffic to your page. But I decided not to do that, and as you can see, I write about different things, and just about anything that I feel good writing about.

• First step was to start reading different blogs that interest me.
• Stumbleupon.com helped a lot in getting traffic, I experienced over 100 visits a day on my very initial posts from this website, you don't get that many clicks, but you get a good amount of unique page visits.
• I personally did not like Digg.com that much, that's because I met a lot of people there shouting at me, asking me to digg their posts which don't interest me at all, they will digg yours without even reading just in greediness of getting their posts dugg. So you get visitors but not the loyal ones and not as much as you expect.
• Commenting on other blogs is a very constructive activity, it helps you socializing, making new friends and attracting loyal readers from different other blogs. It creates back links and a back support for your blog. And most of all it shows your ability to encourage and criticize others and thus is creates your authenticity in the web community.
• *Creating social friends ( I would like to thank those specially who helped me out digging, stumbling and Twitting ).

Also i would like to share my Future Plans here, which I will be implementing very soon, since i have vacations right now.

• Shifting to WP (word press) very soon, because of more comprehensive SEO plug ins, 1000 of widgets and plug ins and millions of themes that are available and the benefits of using dot com too.
• Since I am good with Photoshop, although I haven’t been using it for months, I would also be creating a premium logo for Yellow-Candy.
• Will be using the all in one SEO plug in, using appropriate widgets and plug ins with word press can do amazing wonders and show shocking results.
• Will be creating a wordpress.com blog as well, which will only contain a short review of all my popular posts.
• keep on twitting and stumbling
• And last but not the least, keep posting of course.

In the end, here are the Top 5 most visited posts of the month made by me

Does Microsoft house really exist?
Top 10 Interesting Facts about Barack Obama
Top 5 Recommendations for Replacement of Daniel Craig
Google Street View, No more Privacy?
Classified New Year celebration parties in Karachi.

I think my progress, considering it was my very first month was quite good. Please give your reviews in the comment box below, specially the New Bloggers, to make this post more knowledgeable and informative.

Is blogging all about how many apps do you have in your Iphone?

Hello people, I haven’t been posting for the last couple of days, and that’s because I kind of lost my inspiration. I was spending more time in socializing and reading other people's blogs instead of writing my own. And during this journey of reading all kinds of different posts on lots of different topics, I was astonished to find out that people are enormously beating about the bush in their blogs, talking about things that don't make any sense, taking advantage of the new techno gadgets, soft wares, plug-in, add-ons, and features coming in everyday, I mean blogging is not all about how many apps do you have in your iphone is it?

Of course there's nothing wrong in creating and pursuing a techno blog, but one should also be writing about his/her personal feelings, emotions, humor, interests, hobbies and turn off and turn ons. So that people who read your blog regularly can better judge the writing abilities of the person running the blog. Writing about all these things does not only make your blogs lively but also it shows that how good are you at choosing appropriate words to describe the happiest or the most sorrowful moments of your life, and it also enhances your network of followers, describes you as a person to the world defining different parts of your life.

I noticed that a lot of people are writing only and only on technology and nothing else at all, and there are some who when try to write on a slightly different topic they make blunders with their grammar and vocabulary. Keeping in mind that blogging isn’t really an easy job if your objective is to earn good amount of money through it. You need to better at your vocabulary, grammar and overall English speaking and writing skills to be able to impress people with what you write.

How much do you think before writing a new Blog post

Do you really think before writing a new blog post? Well I do, and since I am new to this incredible world, I wouldn't know about others. Sometimes I think more than I should before creating a new blog post, I think about the theme, the topic, and than the content and the images to go with it. I also think about what the reader’s perception would be after going through my post, and when you think about readers, you know that not every reader will have the same perception. You obviously can't go about writing something that satisfies all the readers. Only a group of people will appreciate what you are doing and some will criticize, some won’t even bother to say anything and some will not even bother reading.

When I started blogging, I thought I will set up a particular theme, and work on it consistently, but as I began to visit different blogs and read hundreds of different kinds of posts, I figured out that there are just so many things to write about and so less time to analyze everything at the same time. I got distracted by different people coming in with innovative and creative ideas and got so messed up that I didn’t know who to follow. Since I’m not a technical guy, I obviously can't go about starting a techno blog unlike millions of other bloggers, I wouldn't want to write about "how to make money" as I am new my self and I am yet to discover the secrets of making money online.

The more I thought about what to write, the more I got confused and than I asked my self a question.” why is it necessary to write?” And after thinking a lot, the answer is, it’s necessary to write because you can't hold all the thoughts that click in your mind forever, at times you are obsessed with something to an extent where you can best describe that thing in your own words and those words become history. The kind of guy I am, a new idea or a thought pops up in my mind after every 30 mins, sometimes you let it go, sometimes you tell people around you about it, but they might not find it interesting. But I am glad, through blogging, you can not only save all the beautiful, innovative and ground-breaking thoughts of yours, but also have people to read what you have got to say. So the idea of the moment is to write about what ever comes in your mind first.

If you read this post all the way, and you are a blogger, please tell us how much do you think before writing a new Blog post?