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Ever wondered why some some friendships are fleeting while others last your entire lifetime? According to a recent study that involved 2 million people and 8 million phone conversations over the period of an entire year, the secret behind persistent relationships is reciprocity, or, the simple act of returning your friend’s call. It found out that the more often two friends called each other, the longer the period of their relationship’s continuance.

It has been common knowledge that some people are more adept as social animals, who are much more connected than others. The study also found these highly connected people are also more socially expressed in terms of the persistence or strength of their many connections.

Applying these findings to social media, if you happen to have a large network of online friends, it doesn’t mean that you have weaker ties with all of them. As the study says, the lifespan and depth of these relationships depends on one factor – connecting repeatedly over time.

Micro-blogging or life-streaming websites such as Twitter and Plurk give us the chance to meet and communicate with a large number of varied people from all around the world. This kind of communication is less personal, but no less legitimate than a real face-to-face meeting. The strength of these services is their ability to enable you to develop persistence in your online relationships, in a ultra-casual, completely non-invasive manner, gradually helping you build a network of people.

There are various ways to leverage the new social channels such as Twitter and Plurk, but what matters in the end is that they help you develop persistence in relationships that matter to you. The bottom line is, people market people! Now isn’t that a good enough reason to get you going?

If you thought there exists a search engine for every possible cause and reason, you thought wrong! TFTHostels.com is the web’s first exclusive hostel search portal. This search engine integrates the directories of every major hostel booking website, giving a one-stop solution to an online hostel-seeker for the first time ever and saving considerable time and money in the process. Services offered include:
Search the largest online directory of hostels anywhere in the world
Compare rates and specs, check availability and location
Check out reviews and recommendations
Zero in on the perfect choice and book your hostel online

This cool new search engine is in the beta stage and derives its horsepower from Travelers for Travelers. The service is currently free and does not charge additional fees to favor a certain hostel/booking service over another, according to the website. Marco Van De Kamp, the Head Honcho at TFTHostels, recommends combining his service’s capabilities with Twitter, Google Blog Search and Summize to get all the latest recommendations and reviews on the hostels that his service serves up.

And speaking of Google, it announced its Website Workout contest at the recently held SMX Seattle Conference. The idea behind the contest is to help four businesses to “pump up” their websites; to specifically generate more leads, sales or signups, whichever the case maybe. Enter the contest by answering a few simple questions on why exactly your website needs to be pumped up! The four chosen winners will benefit from the expertise of Google’s consultants who will put its Website Optimizer tool to work on identifying and testing the best combinations of page design, graphics layout and copy and other web page factors that will yield the best possible conversion rates for the site. Google is accepting entries through June 17, so get going!

Lately I have been experimenting with Twitter as there is alot of buzz surrounding the social site, so I decided to do an experiment just to see how much traffic twitter can deliver and is it worth it? Well I decided to do this experiment on this current blog for 1 month this was between April 14th 08 - May 14th 08. As you can see from the stats above twitter had been sending around 120 uniques a day which is ok. I have been carefully tracking these visitors and although I cant track how many people are personally bookmarking the site I can track my subscribers. So since I started this I have got a few extra subscribers than normal daily. But if you take a look at the bounce rate from twitter it is extrodinarily high with alot of people staying on the blog for less than 1 min. Therefore from this experiment I have learnt that although twitter has the potential to send alot of traffic how much of this is actually worth it? Ok it may be because of the fact that most people on twitter dont know what SEO is and I may have been targetting the wrong audience but I feel for most online businesses or blogs looking to bring in targetted traffic twitter is not the way to go.

Feel free to leave comments of your twitter traffic and if it has been succesful to your niche. One great thing about twitter though is the communications you can have with people and you can learn alot and obtain a lot of knowledge so just participating and speaking to a wide variety of people can give you a great headstart.

If you participate in the Twitter world you will know that having followers is the most important factor in communicating with other people and getting your brand name out.

You may be interested in Dancing or Music and may find a group of musicians you would like to get to speak to. Well as everyone knows the only way to do that is to manually follow people that interest you and hope they follow you back. It is quite a time consuming task to manually follow people so we have created a plugin for Mozilla Firefox that strictly sticks by twitters API so that the tool will not and cannot be used for spamming. The way this works is if you try to add a persons friends and they have around 30,000 friends the tool will NOT work as it is coded to only stick to twitters API of 200 Max.

Once the plugin has been downloaded and installed, you will notice in the bottom right hand corner of your browser a symbol stating “twitter grab”, this indicates that the plugin has been succesfully installed. You will then need to login to your account find the persons friends you would like to communicate with right click on there profile and there should be an option stating “Grab this Users Friends” hit that and the plugin should start working.

Twitter is great for marketing and getting word out about your hobby. This plugin is just a little tool to help that adhears with all twitters rules.

Please CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PLUGIN

Please NOTE Production of this plugin has been Discontinued!