Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and Twitter There’s rather a lot of Twitter rhetoric being bandied about in the Web marketing industry these days so naturally a common question that’s been coming from Firetop clients is “Would being on Twitter help our search engine positioning?” and my short answer on this is “Indirectly yes, but nothing momentous“.

Last year on the old Firetop blog I wrote an entry called ‘Web 2.0 forecasting for business publishers’ – publishing a slightly complicated formula to help estimate whether Web 2.0 tools would be successfully taken up by a business audience or not. At the time Firetop’s own rich media expert – Martin – said that [...]

Came across an interesting article today about Twitter on BBC technology, it suggests that the Twitter phenomenon is powered largely by media / PR hype. I found that quite unsurprising, the same happened with blogging three years ago, the number of new blogs being started each day was reported in the media to have exponential [...]