We’ve been incredibly busy during the past couple of months with a big GEO SEO project. We can’t describe everything about it in one post so we decided to talk about a new feature every day for the rest of this week.
Our first feature we’d like to show is our brand new Twitter Integration. The feature is really simple. All you do is enable Twitter Integration on your GeoGraffiti account and any Voice Mark you create will result in a Tweet to your Twitter account. So what appears as your status on Twitter when you create a new Voice Mark? Here’s a screenshot of my recent Twitter updates.
Status message from GeoGraffiti/Twitter integration
Your new Voice Marks will update your Twitter status with a message similar to what you see in the screenshot. So why not put the text transcribed Voice Mark as your Twitter status message? Well… it’s just hard :). We can’t possibly transcribe audio real-time in order to update your Twitter status. This process still requires some human aspect to it so there’s just no way…right now…but soon! So, you’ll get your nifty Voice Mark title along with a direct link to the Voice Mark where users can listen to the audio.
So why is this cool?
There are many reasons, but I’ll list a few below
- Just because you are away from your computer doesn’t mean you have to stop Tweeting! With any regular phone, anyone can call the GeoGraffiti TUI (Telephone User Interface) @ 213.221.3802 to leave a Voice Mark. As long as you’ve created a GeoGraffiti account and enabled Twitter Integration, all your Voice Marks will be posted as Tweets! You’ll run into situations where Tweeting is actually cumbersome or somewhat limiting (not because Twitter is bad, but because Twitter may not be the right medium). Imagine you’re out and you find some interesting museum or hole-in-the-wall restaurant that you love. If you want to talk about the places in detail, writing a review via text on a mobile phone will just take too long and you only have the 140 character limit. Instead, just use GeoGraffiti and get on with your life :). It’ll take a about a minute. Plus, your Voice Mark will be there for the rest of the public to benefit from.
- It doesn’t matter how you create the Voice Mark… your Twitter status will always be updated. There is no need for any fancy equipment! Remember that GeoGraffiti is a platform and all our our end-user interfaces are simply interfaces. All the magic happens on our servers. This means that you can use GeoGraffiti on iPhone or TMobile G1 to create a Voice Mark and your Twitter status will be updated. Your tech-challenged grandparents can use their plain ol’ mobile phone or land-line and their Twitter status will be updated (of course they might need your help setting up a Twitter account for the first time)… they might not even go on Twitter at all…all their tweets can be Voice Marks :).
- People are apparently making money from Tweets…??? That’s what I saw on the news a few days ago. Well… if that’s the case, then they too can keep earning $$ by leaving Voice Marks!
- Our not-very-publicized Biz Marks (Business Voice Marks for free advertising) will benefit from this by using Twitter as a medium to spread the message. Basically anyone interested in using GeoGraffiti for SEO/GeoSEO purposes will definitely want to enable Twitter Integration. I’ll write about this in more detail in a blog post later this week dealing with SEO/GeoSEO.
So there you have it. These are just a few ways to use Twitter Integration. I’m sure you, the user, will come up with more and have better ideas. Don’t be shy! Let us know what features you’d like to see and we’ll crank it out :).
Ok. Enough out of me… here’s a short video to demonstrate how to enable Twitter Integration.
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