Uma análise bastante interessante do site da Amazon, uma das principais referências e modelo de user experience para sites e-commerce (fonte: Webdesigner Depot).

Designers of e-commerce websites today face a number of challenges in attempting to build a user experience thatincreases the likelihood of visitors making online purchases.

To battle fierce online competition and overcome the apprehension of skeptical shoppers, designers can take a number of steps to improve the usability of their online stores.

Since 1995, Amazon has established itself as the world’s leader in e-commerce. Its success is not a fluke, nor is it merely the result of being in the right place at the right time.

Amazon’s success is the direct result of a strong user shopping experience.

In this article, we will discuss a number of features of the Amazon shopping experience that will, either in principle or practically, offer a model worthy of imitation by e-commerce developers today.

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Today, twitter is debatably the most relevant website. Millions of Twitter users log on a daily basis. Then go ask your self: what is all the publicity about? Why has this apparently incredible simple website taken the internet by storm? What is so tempting about Twitter?

In a nutshell, the beauty of Twitter lies both in its simplicity and its plea to a variety of different audiences. In addition, it has been helped along by a number of famous sponsors. Below are some of the key reasons that Twitter has become and remained so successful.


1. Twitter is a common occurrence that has soaked for every level of the world’s landscape. Entertainers, stars, politicians, businessmen, factory workers, students, and stay-at-home moms all enjoy using Twitter. The variety of people using Twitter is amazing; it has become a wonderful way for people from different walks of life to connect.

2. Twitter has been recognized by major stars such as Ashton Kutcher, Oprah Winfrey, Larry Jones, and many other high profile celebrities. Even politicians have joined the movement. Twitter has helped the general public feel more connected to these icons and in doing so, has become the medium by which the gaps in world communication seem to have miraculously been narrowed.

3. As a whole, Twitter has infused the media. When Twitter crashed on August 6th, 2009, it made the nightly news on ABC. There aren’t many websites that would receive national media attention if they stopped working for a few hours. Somehow, some way, Twitter has become an aspect of everyday life.

4. Twitter has turn out to be an innovator in terms of marketing and advertising. Products and services are promoting using Twitter. It has become the internet equivalent of the television commercial, without the cost.

5. Twitter appeals to the speed of today. People to any further want to sit down, write blogs, and they don’t want to read long write-ups either. The 140 character limits on Twitter certify that you are concise in your writing. It also makes for easy reading and information that is broken down into easily edible morsel.

Time will tell what the future hold for Twitter. Is it a fashion that will pass away soon or will it be used gradually for marketing or will social networking take over? As of now, there is no sign of the Twitter prodigy stopping, so you might as well jump on board.

Twitter is a very popular social networking site with millions of active and registered users. Utwitbook helps you to find people of your interest from these millions effectively. Using the straight forward search function in this site you find twitter-ers sharing similar interests, professions and attributes. If you want to find people on Twitter effectively then Utwitbook is the site you have look for. With advanced still simple search options it is possible to find about anyone on Twitter.

You can perform straightforward search in this site to find people just by typing username. To find users better by profession, bio, location, URL host, etc use advance syntax. For example if you like to find people by location just type loc:locationname. You can then sort search results by number of followers, latest updates and relevance.

Click on the username in the search results to know more about select user. Know number of followers, following and tweets made by the user instantly. Also find if there are any recommendations made on a select user. When you hover your mouse on user’s image you will options to recommend, follow/unfollow and mention @username message.

Build your Twitter circle by finding users who share similar profession, interests, location and many other attributes using Utwitbook. Browse through the site to know and find more interesting functions. Do not forget to retweet if you liked this article.

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Twitter is one of the biggest social networking sites with millions of users from all around the world. This is a right place to find people who share same interests like you and make friendship with them. LocaFollow is a web service that allows you to easily find people on Twitter based on their bio and location. You can sign in with Twitter to use this sites services for free.

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It is very easy to find people around you or in your city who share same interests like you on Twitter. LocaFollow in one such site that makes things as simple as possible. When you first open this site you can see a Bio and Location fields in it. Fill these fields and click on search to find people around you.

For example if you are looking for bloggers in your city then type blogger in the bio field and your city name in the location field. Twitter users who have entered blogger in their bio and whose location matches with the location you have specified will be displayed on the screen.

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Each search result displays Twitter username, avatar, member since, and bio details. You can also see how many people do he/she follow and following and number of tweets made. Also the latest tweet from the user will also be displayed.

You can visit a person’s Twitter profile directly by clicking in the Twitter avatar. To follow a person just click on the Follow button or you can choose to follow many people at a time by flagging them. To flag a person just click on the button that is present above Twitter avatar. Then click the Bulk Follow button at the top that’s it now you will be following all the people that you have selected.

Twitter is a nice place to let the world know what you are doing and to share your thoughts and ideas with others. Twitter allows you to tweet easily from the web browser, which has unfortunately become a high way for the spammers to spam Twitter.

You may be having hundreds of followers whom you know and most of the users will be unknown to you. This becomes difficult to find the real users from the spammers to help you in this regard and to delete spammers from your account there are tools available now.

If you are careful about whom you follow the chances of spammers being present in your account are remote. If you are not sure about the users in your follow list then you must consider these tools to know about the spammers and bots in your account if any.

These tools will check all your contact accounts and by using complex algorithms and check the ratio of followers to determine bots and spammers from real people. Herein are the 3 best tools to help you in this regard they are very easy to use and get rid of the spammers.

Tweet Blocker

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This is one of the free resources to find and block Twitter spammers in your account. It will use complex algorithm and computes the ratio between the followers and friends, number of tweets from an user in your follow list and tells weather it is spam or not.

All that you need to do is login to Tweet Blocker using your Twitter account details and it will scan all your contacts and gives you a report. From the dashboard of the Tweet Blocker you can choose to block or un-follow a user easily or choose to Block all the spammers and bots and one go.

On the Tweet Blocker Web site you can also find the Tweet Blocker Bookmarklet using which you can report about a spam or spammer easily and directly to Tweet Blocker.

TrueTwit

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As the caption of the site says that this is a Twitter validation service which will protect real Twitter users from spammers. It uses the complex CAPTCHA validation method which is fool proof method for detecting bots. It ensures that there will be no bots in your follow list such that you will not end up with spam tweets in your friend’s time line.

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For this you need to create an account with the TrueTwit for free and validate this service in your Twitter account. After this any new follower in your account has to fill in the CAPTCHA form which is sent by the TrueTwit with a unique like. By this way you can be sure that only human followers will be present in your account but not the automatic spam boots.

Twerp Scan

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This is one another tool for detecting and blocking spammers in your Twitter account. Like that of Tweet Blocker it will also use complex algorithm and check the ratio of friends and followers and also uses API to determine spammers from real users.

Using your Twitter credentials you can login to this service and know spammers from real users in your follow list. It will present the report to you and you can choose to un-follow or block a user directly. If you have hundreds of users and most of them turned to be spammers than then it would be hard for you, you have to un-follow or block each follower separately.