What would you change about Twitter?

Is Twitter losing steam?

I think so and if you look at the traffic graph from Compete.com you will see that the statistics back up this claim.  From January to April of this year, Twitter traffic went from 7 million to 20 million uniques per month.  For the past three months the growth has been a flat line.

Why is this happening?

I think this can be summed up in one word:

SPAM

I did a lot of research over the last week and asked my blog readers, twitter followers and forum members from Bloggeries and Digital Point to share with me some ideas on what they change about Twitter.  There were a lot of responses but the overwhelming response was STOP THE SPAM.

Here are other Things That You Would Change about Twitter

• Increase the limit of characters that you can tweet.  Some people find the 140 character limit very limiting and wish they had more room to really express their thoughts.  I agree and this is actually one of the suggestions my son Blogging Boy mentioned as well.
• Sampaguita from Home Affiliate Blog mentioned that he would like Twitter to increase the number of people that you can DM using their feature.  He feels this would be more convenient.
• Gautam from Blog GoDown and several other people wanted to see the ability to categorize your followers and put them in groups as well as allow a person to be in more than one group (like Facebook)
• To expand on the category idea, I (Tycoon Blogger) would like to have the ability to send out bulk tweets to people in specific categories.  This would be very useful as I would love to have a Family category to send out Tweets about my kids instead of sending them out everyone or just several people.
• Typhoon from Smart Bloggerz said the one thing twitter should do is that they remove the Limits which they introduced recently. Specially the 1000 followers/day limit.
• Stefan from Ducedo.com would like to see threaded comments which would make it so much easier to have a discussion.
• I would also like to see some sort of rating system.  Kind of like on forums, where you know who the good community members are. This would make it very easy to know who is a valuable Twitter-er and who the Spam bots are.

Even if they considered a couple of these suggestions it would make a major difference in the user experience.

What do you think of these ideas?  What ideas to do you have?

Blogger Spotlight – Blogging Girl

Two weeks ago I featured Blogging Boy in the “Blogger Spotlight.”  This week I am featuring Blogging Girl, she is a 6 year blogger from the United States.  In my opinion she is the cutest blogger around.  You may have guessed by now that she is my daughter.  When I started getting heavily involved in blogging, my kids started to get interested as well.  My 10 year old blogs on his own  but my six year old still needs help.  She provides the content and I take care of the rest.  Her brother and I monitor the comments and make sure that all the spam is gone before it reaches her.  This is another video interview, so check it out below:

If you would like to featured in the “Blogger Spotlight” series, contact me through the contact form or via email at tycoonblogger@gmail.com

quick updates at TycoonBlogger.com

Happy Friday everyone!

I am preparing a new blog post and before I get that published I wanted to provide a couple of updates about things that are going on with my blogs.

Last week I posted about some blog related domain names that I have for sale.  I have been offered $250 for BlogFluence.com and $100 for DoFollowMovement, no offers for TweetMyPost.com or OpinionatedBlogger.

What do you guys think, should I take the money or hold out for better offers?

At the top of the month I wrote a post about the benefits of blog commenting on this blog and mentioned that I would be offering a free month of advertising to the top commentator.  So far Doug is running away with.  There are still 4 days left to get your comments in.

Yesterday, I wrote about some great blog contests going on at some other blogs but forgot to mention the blog contest going on at one of my other blogs ; Daily Blog Contest .  There are 4 days left to enter for your chance to win 37,000 Entrecard credits.  These credits are more valuable then ever now that Entrecard has cut the amount of credits you can earn in half.  Here is a direct link to enter the Entrecard Blog Contest

I need your help for this new post I am writing.  I have not written about Twitter in a while and I have found myself not as hooked as I once was and I am wondering why this is.  There are some things that I think Twitter should change to enhance the user experience.  I want your input…Please let me know what the number 1 thing you would change on Twitter.  I just sent out a tweet and asked my followers to chime in.  I am excited to see the responses and will compile them in the post along with my number 1 thing that I think Twitter should change.  So what do you think?  Hit me up on Twitter.com/TycoonBlogger

Blog Contests, Blog Contests and More Blog Contests

It seems like there are a great deal of blog contests going on out there right now.  Which is a great thing as I love blog contests and have won quite a few over the years.  AS many of you know, I visit hindereds of blogs per day and wanted to share with you some blog contests that are happening on some of my blogging buddies’ blogs.

Sire at Wassup Blog is holding an ultimate blogging contest where you can win some cash and ad spots.

Doug at Making Money Online has a contest going on where you can win a awesome custom banner from 20 dollar banners .

Mike at Cornymans Money Blog is holding the biggest Entrecard Contest of all time that could reach one million credits.  Here is a link if you want to check that one out or join as a sponsor.  Tycoon Blogger has sponsored 10,00 EntreCard credits to the cause.

I will be holding a blog contest on this blog very soon so stay tuned for details.

Do you know of any other blog contests going on right now?  Let us know!

Improve your “about me” page by adding Video

Several months back I wrote a post titled How to Write a Killer “About Me” page for your Blog .  I wanted to add on to that post and provide a tip that I recently implemented that could help your blog.

Instead of just a picture of me, I decided to add a 3 minute video introducing you to my blog.  I think this adds a personal touch and I am hoping it will increase the amount of interaction between me and my readers.

I also included a link to my top blog posts up until now to give me readers an easy way to jump right into my best content.

Here is a link to my new and improved “About Me” page.

Who is this Tycoon Blogger anyway

What do you think?  What else do you think I can do to improve this page?