New Twitter Retweets Feature

Here is the pop-up I have seen last time I logged in to my Twitter account :

It says I'm part of beta group to test new Retweets feature! I'm sure that's because of my 6k+ followers :) On Twitter web app sidebar I have found new button just above search box as image shows:

Finally, entire new page is available with 3 tabs: retweets by others, retweets by you and your tweets, retweeted:

Best information about this new Twitter feature I have found from the 'source', on evhead blog.

p.s. Mashable just reported that new retweets feature has been disabled.

Inkscape Stars Tool Examples

When working with Inkscape - free vector editing software, it is good to get to know its tools. That's excellent way to shorten time you need to master entire piece of software. Best practise in this direction is to play with different parameters, to adjust them step-by-step and learn how shapes change accordingly.

One of many useful Inkscape tools is stars and polygons tools. Here are some examples of parameters using stars part of tool.

Inkscape Tutorial: simple way to make a snowflake

Hello. This is first of many Inkscape Tutorials you will see on my blog. I hope you will enjoy it and share it with others if you find them useful. I'm currently using Inkscape version 0.46.

Lets get started. This tutorial will show you very basic and quick way to create unique snowflake. Start with blank document. Choose Bezier tool (win: SHIFT+F6) from toolbar. First we will create single snowflake limb and then we will use clone tool. Ok, so draw straight line and continue to add more points like image shows. Bottom shape is closed path.

Next, we will copy our shape and paste it to duplicate it. Select only one of the shapes and choose Object then Flip Vertical. Align shapes to make single object like image 2 shows.

Now, select both shapes and choose Object then Group (win: CTRL+G). Use colors as you wish for stroke and fill. Make sure our grouped object is selected before our final step. Go to Edit then Clone then Create Tiled Clones and new window pops up. On symmetry tab from drop down meny choose: P6 60 rotation. Select rows, columns if it isn't already selected and type 1 and 6 like image shows. Click on create and snowflake is born!

You can duplicate your newly created snowflake, change rotation and size and make winter on your screen! Since process of making single snowflake is really quick, you can create several different and unique shapes

and make your snow look great.

More Inkscape Tutorials coming soon. Sharing this one will make me very happy! Thanks!

Free Ireland 3D Vector Map

This is a new version of Ireland Vector file. It is more suiatble in presentation purposes than latest version. Available format for free download are EPS and SVG. Again, this file version is modified using Inkscape, free vector editing software.

Comment for download details or more customization.

Please share this post, someone may find it useful. Thank you.

My SponsoredTweets earnings

First of all I want to say I was suspicious at beggining about making money with SponsoredTweets and I had a reason. When I sign up a month ago I got few offers (as you can see from image below), but than nothing. I have first lowered my price to incredible $0.09 per tweet, got 1 offer, raised my price to $0.19 just to test how high I can go, got 2 offers and another one at $0.36. And that's it. After that everything stopped.

Like with many other making cash online services I thought the buzz is over, no more offers will ever come. And I lived few weeks believing this, but about 10 days ago everthing changed. Suddenly offers start to rush in and since, they never stopped. It even get better and better since I raised my price to $0.70 right now and I still get new sponsored tweets every day.

Now, you may think those earning are low considering I have 6k+ followers, but there is a catch. As I wrote in one of my previous posts my twitter account is not included in search stream because I had repeated tweets and I didn't know this is against their rules (hard learned lesson). This is the reason my CPC rate is so low. My analysis shows that account with same number of followers which is included in search stream whould have 5 time greater CPC. This means, if you have 6k followers you could ask for $5 - $7 per tweet and you will get offers easily!

Now, it all depends what kind of twitter account you have and do you have true followers or fake ones. More true followers, higher CPC and more money for you. Let's say you get 1 offer per day (seems pretty easy right now) you can make $6 x 30 days = $180 per month. Not bad, not bad at all.

Off course, you should not spam your own stream. One sponsored tweet per 10 - 20 normal ones is quite good ratio. I wouldn't mind if people I follow have this rate of sponsored tweets.

Check my SponsoredTweets profile and hire me!

* there are some tricks I have learned to improve my earnings, but about that in some future post.