Ever since Twitter opened up their verification process to public applications via form, I’ve been writing pretty much non-stop about it. It’s big news, and I’m not the only one that thinks so. Why is it, though? What’s the big …

This question comes up surprisingly often. People wonder; is their Twitter account worth anything? Could they sell it and profit, or would that get them in legal trouble?

This is actually several related questions. There are a lot of considerations …

Gaining an Instagram audience is very much like the mythical journey of a thousand miles; it’s just one step after the next. Nothing you do – well, nothing short of being struck by the lightning of a viral surge – …

Now that you’ve read that title, what fan and follower am I talking about? Is it a Facebook fan? A Twitter follower? A Google+ Follower? There’s a terminology problem for social media interactions, and it’s made worse by the fact …

As far as anyone can tell, there is no minimum number of followers necessary to earn Twitter verification. Verification is handed out to a wide range of accounts for a number of different reasons, and many accounts that seem like …

When you think of bots on a site like Twitter, the first thing that comes to mind is likely to be spam. Bot accounts run rampant, after all; botnets control thousands or millions of them, to whatever nefarious purpose …