How to promote your software on social media

Trillian has a nice example.  Trillian is a instant messenger, combining MSN, ICQ, GTalk, Facebook chat and many others (XMPP/Jabber) into one program.  They also have integration of twitter, facebook and LinkedIn status updates…  Very handy indeed.

So back to the example. 

One of the first times you start, you get this screen:

The intentions are not hidden…  The screen titles: “Promote Trillian!” Your users have just to push the buttons where they want to let the world know they are using Trillian.  If they like your program, they have no reason no too…