There have been a number of quick options to “Tweet this” post which can be added to wordpress or any blog and while they do help encourage a lot of readers to go ahead and help promote as post to their followers but sometimes setting it up can be a bit cumbersome. Here’s a slightly different one that makes things a bit easier from Hubspot.

Hubspot has just launched a simple tool called “Tweet-It” to help encourage readers to promote a post, video or just about any content they enjoyed on their Twitter. It’s dead simple to use and I’m all game for anything which makes something like tweeting something even simpler!

Check it out here Tweet-It

“That doesn’t make sense” you may think to youself. The whole purpose of needing help with promoting a site or product is to get more traffic and a bigger audience base so how can asking your audience help? Well it works! 

The whole point to social media marketing is that your audience and readers will market for you and to get their help, sometimes you need to ask for it. 

Jeremiah Owyang did a really cool experiment on his blog post “How Bloggers Should Inspire Retweets” which was a riculously simple and still impressive way of getting your content or blog posts re-tweeted on twitter so that readers share it with their followers. The solution? -Simply ask them to. Jeremiah added a line to his blog post which said simply copy and paste the following lines in your Twitter:-

” If You Read This, Tweet This to your Followers:

How Bloggers Should Inspire Retweets http://snipurl.com/9ii28“

After all there is no harm in trying it and considering that I came across this blog post after someone else I was following did paste the snippet, I can tell you there is something to this.

The same holds true for generating conversations and comments on your blog as Marko points out in his post on “10 ways to increase the number of blog comments” The first point in which he says:-

1. Encourage interaction by asking your readers questions. If you want people to leave comments, invite them to do so by simply asking for their opinion or suggestion. When you ask people for their opinion, they are more likely to give it to you. A way to do this is to conclude your blog post with a good open-ended question like “What is your experience with this?”

once again points out that you need to invoke action from readers to participate or help you promote your content and drive more interest and traffic. Once this is built into your content, it will effective help promote itself by turning passive readers into active promoters.

Now its my turn to ask you to copy the line below and tweet it to your followers if you thought this could be useful to them.

If you liked this post, paste the following in Twitter:-

Check out the ‘Simplest Tip For Promoting Anything On Social Media Marketing’ http://is.gd/eMYr

Have you been able to leverage your readers to promote your posts?

While a significant chunk of G1 owners still await the RC29 update that started rolling out a few days ago, Google has already queued up another one. While people generally welcome updates with open arms, this ones got a few folks upset.

Last week, an eagle-eyed tinkerer realized that you could gain root access to the G1 by using telnetd, essentially “jailbreaking” it. Now, this isn’t jailbreaking in the “install just about whatever you want” sense most iPhone owners would think of — the G1 already does that. Instead, it gives you full admin abilities down to the very core of the handset’s filesystem. While this allows for modifications both beneficial and malicious, Google has decided that the risks outweigh the benefits. With RC30, root access via telnetd is blocked.

Google’s word on the matter:

We’ve been notified of this issue (Jailbreaking of Android) and have developed a fix. We’re currently working with our partners to push the fix out and updating the open source code base to reflect these changes.

Root access via telnet was, by all means, a security flaw. While Android is completely opensource, the G1 is not – and this exploit allowed access to areas that HTC, T-Mobile, and Google didn’t intend to be open. However, as we’ve learned from the iPhone’s cat-and-mouse jailbreak history, there are some incredibly talented developers out there who really don’t like to be told what they can do with their devices. We’ll keep an eye out and see where this goes next.

The iPhone is twice as reliable as the Blackberry after one year of ownership, a new study by SquareTrade finds. SquareTrade, which sells extra warranties for cell phones and other devices, looked at the failure rates of 15,000 phones covered under its plans. The malfunction rate for iPhones after one year is 5.6 percent, compared to 11.2 percent for the Blackberry and 16.2 percent for the Treo.

The study projects that the failure rate for the iPhone after two years will be between 9.2 and 11.3 percent, compared to actual two-year failure rates of 14.3 percent for BlackBerries and 21.0 percent for Treos.