 Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
When more than 9,000 tweets are published per second, it can be hard to find great content on the platform. So in 2015, Twitter rolled out Twitter Moments -- curated tweets revolving around a single topic or story, all in one place.
Initially, only Twitter and its editorial partners, such as BuzzFeed and The New York Times, could curate Moments. Last year, however, Twitter opened up Moments for all Twitter users. Now, all content creators on the platform can compile groups of tweets. Whether it’s about an event, a campaign, or a pop culture moment, marketers can take advantage of this feature and potentially get discovered by new followers.
In this blog post, we’ll dive into the 411 on Twitter Moments, how to create them, and how brands can use them....
Columnist Chris Kerns takes a deep dive into the profile descriptions for millions of Twitter users to bring you insight into why you need to look beyond just tweets to target your audience.
Social media is as much about sharing information as expressing a certain kind of image to the rest of the world. Being able to choose the moments we want to share (and leave out the ones we’d rather not) gives users the ability to curate a public perception — a mix of who we really are and who we want to be.
But these self-identifying labels are not just in messages; they’re also in our profile descriptions. Some people choose to list their job, others an allegiance to a favorite sports team. By looking at profile descriptions for millions of Twitter users, we can see some interesting patterns emerge about how groups of people describe themselves....
Often we get asked: How did you grow your Twitter followers to such impressive numbers? Why do my accounts not grow as much as I want them to? Why do I get nothing out of all my marketing efforts? Why do people not talk about my product in social media? And most of the time the answer is: It’s the Content – or the lack thereof. What do you post if you do not have interesting content?If you have no good content to share on social media, you either cannot post as often as you want to (and should be) or you sound like a self promotional tout. Social Media Marketers can only post as often as they want if they have the amazing content to share that makes their posts powerful enough. And when your social media updates fail to be useful (like interesting content) – why should others care or even share them? Of course social media is also about conversations and interaction and not only about sharing content. But your options in social media are very limited if you yourself cannot start the conversations you want to have with the right content....
Some of the main ways businesses use Twitter include: - Sharing information and content - Driving engagement for promotional activities - Interacting with consumers - Networking - Branding - Reputation management.
As you can see, most of these activities have to do with interactions. It’s not necessarily just about broadcasting your content like Instagram or Pinterest, for example. Twitter thrives off communication. Keep that in mind as we continue with the rest of this guide and get into the nitty gritty of Twitter marketing.
It’s time to go beyond the “setup your profile correctly” and “follow influencers” tips. We’ll go over real Twitter marketing strategies that will help you be more successful, and the steps you need to take to market like the pros....
For small businesses, Twitter presents a significant business opportunity to engage with customers — for brands and audiences to communicate directly and authentically. A 2014 report from Twitter and brand research firm DB5 found that:57% of respondents say that they’ve discovered a small business on Twitter
Respondents, on average, follow around 21 small businesses. 60% of surveyed users say that they have made a purchase from a small business after discovering the company on Twitter.
In this post, we’ll cover 5 critical techniques for making the most out of these valuable conversion opportunities. For 5 more, download this guide to 10 Experiments to Help Increase Value from Social Media...
Since social media is changing so often. It can be really hard to keep up with stats and trends that affect how you use it. I quite often forget the facts that I’ve read, or I use Twitter based on stats that are outdated now.
In fact, when I recently looked at some of the latest social media statistics, it hit me that the fastest growing demographic on Twitter is is the 55–64 year age bracket. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what’s changed.
In case you’re in the same boat with me, I gathered up some really interesting Twitter stats that can help you improve the way you reach your followers....
Researchers at Twitter went through more than 350 hashtags across eight US primetime reality shows from January-July last year to find what exactly makes a hashtag succeed.
According to the company, a few different types of hashtags are consistently picked up by viewers at a higher rate than normal when shown on screen, showing that certain formats have more pull than other when it comes to engaging audiences....
If Twitter fails to fix its “noise” problem, it doesn’t face a prosperous future — that’s according to entrepreneur and early Twitter investor Gary Vaynerchuk.
Speaking at the Guardian Changing Media Summit in London today, the “storytelling entrepreneur, video blogger, self-trained social media expert and best-selling author” talked at length about how social media has changed brand-building in the digital age. Vaynerchuk touched on a number of related topics, but it was perhaps the vehemence of his Twitter views that stood out....
We have a pretty good idea of Twitter best practices: post regularly, don't overuse hashtags, keep your tweets short enough for retweets, etc. We even know that a good mix of images and video will help boost engagement.
Yet every few months, I like to look back through my Twitter analytics to see which content performed best and I'm surprised at what I find. Some pieces of content posted to Twitter get 5 to 10 times my typical amount of retweets!...
Something cool happened when I was tweeting with my buddy Thomas Marzano.
Marzano added me to a list called “IFTTT Engaging Followers“.
But that’s not the cool part.
The cool part is I was added to the list automatically.
Marzano told me he created an “IFTTT recipe” that automatically adds users to the list when they mention Marzano on Twitter.
And he told me it’s super easy to do. So I did it and wrote this blog post on how!...
All you need is probably 30 minutes of your time daily and in a long run, I am sure you would be able to grow your followers much quicker than before.
I started a new Twitter handle a few months back in conjunction with my new marketing blog. Just like you, I was determined to grow Twitter followers without buying any followers and I want to grow them fast!
This case study was started around 3 months back and today I have 3,010 followers. With this technique, I was gaining anywhere between 5 to 30 new followers on a daily basis....
Would you want to follow your own Twitter account? If you were someone else – a random Internet user for example – and you came across your Twitter account, would that account be follow-worthy? Would you want to keep up with what this account tweets and perhaps even retweet or *gasp* direct message the person behind the account? These Twitter tips are designed to help you become that useful and fun account that others want to keep track of.
These simple Twitter tips are great for all levels of Twitter users. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a relatively new user, follow these tips and hopefully you’ll start seeing more people follow you and engage with you. That’s the whole idea behind Twitter after all, right? Aside from making money as a publicly-traded company, that is....
Twitter works on three basic things- understanding how it actually works, listening to your target audience and Tweeting right content at right time. The first two are individual choices and skills, but the third one is tricky because it also includes what to Tweet? This can be enhanced by various measures. Here I have tried to consolidate a list of ideas you can use for your Twitter posts....
|
Anyone paying attention to the technology world over the past few years can tell you that Elon Musk is… different. He thinks differently from most CEOs — most notably leveraging his fortune to build an electric car company that no one said would work, and two other companies at the same time. He talks differently from most CEOs, diving deep into theories on humanity and gushing about science fiction more than discussing balance sheets. But the best measure of how he’s different is how he acts, and there’s no better place to see that in action than on Twitter. On Twitter, Musk (@elonmusk) is an anomaly. He not only has more followers than his own car company (@TeslaMotors), but he also has more followers than @Ford, @Chevrolet and @Chrysler— combined. His personal account gets mentioned on Twitter more often than any American car company and sees more engagement than any of them. All without the help of ad budgets and teams of social media strategists. So what is Musk doing on social media that marketers can learn from? How has he continued to build a base of followers who hang on his every word? I mined his Twitter feed over the past year to find out and found three strategies from his social activity that we can all learn from....
When it was first created, Twitter was designed mostly for individuals. It was a place for people to share succinct versions of their thoughts and ideas with the world. As it grew in popularity, brands jumped on board and began using the platform to communicate with consumers. Over the past decade, it's become a go-to platform for engaging with fans and increasing brand exposure. Brands that tweet out quality content tend to see a lot of success on Twitter. But what exactly does quality brand content on Twitter look like? Below is a list of 10 brands -- even those in seemingly "boring" industries -- that are consistently tweeting out great content. (And to learn more about how to succeed on Twitter, download our introductory guide to Twitter for business.)....
You’ve already seen this ecosystem in action: we use it to publish Moments on Twitter. And you may already be using some of the individual tools we’re talking about, such as TweetDeck and Curator. Today we announced a new Collections API that turns multiple Tweets into a single story with a single Collection ID, which can be used to edit, update and publish that story from any of the tools in our ecosystem.” Now you can easily turn unique Twitter content into great stories that attract, engage, and retain an audience.
Tell your story with the best Tweets, simply
Previously, when you wanted to publish a great story with Tweets, you had to manually manage a bunch of Tweet IDs, and embed them into your app or website one at a time. With our new end-to-end ecosystem, we’ve simplified the storytelling process. Now you can use TweetDeck, Curator, Spredfast, Dataminr, ScribbleLive, Wayin, or Flowics to find and organize the Tweets you want into a single story....
Over time, I have learned through careful, and not so careful, trial & error how to be relevant to my particular audience, and I am achieving better results because of it.
Cultivating a strong presence on Twitter has many benefits: you support your organization’s marketing efforts, you can use it to sell socially, you can build your personal brand, or any combination of these things. With all these benefits, I have wondered, why do some of my fellow marketing and sales professionals still struggle to gain traction on such a promising channel?
Based on my first-hand observations, marketers and sales-people don’t treat their personal brand enough like a real brand. Here are four common mistakes they make when using Twitter and how to correct them:
Before I joined Buffer, I barely had a Twitter account.
It existed by its lonesome for a few years as a placeholder for the day when my work allowed me to tweet freely. That day came when I had the privilege to join up with the Buffer team, and I dove right in, applying all the Twitter knowledge I had stowed away. And still, even with a running start, I had so much to learn.
Knowledge seldom takes the place of experience. So while I muddled through my first few weeks on Twitter—experimenting and fiddling—I noticed the many things I could have only learned by doing. Here are the big ones. Call them Twitter tips for beginners.
Maybe you can relate to some?...
Twitter lists are possibly one of the most underrated tools of Twitter, from organising who you follow to finding out what your competitors are posting, it is essential.
Amongst the hundreds of tweets you potentially view per day, it’s easy to scroll past tweets that interest you, or that are important. Twitter lists make missing important tweets a thing of the past. You can create your own, subscribe or be added to peoples lists. Lists allow you organise your followers (or even people you don’t follow) into categories which stream tweets from all of the people in the list in one place.
Twitter lists can either be public or private. Public lists are visible to anyone browsing your profile and people may be notified by Twitter as you add them to a public list. Private lists for example, are a perfect way to gather all of your competitors twitter feeds in one place keeping you aware of their deals, products, ideas etc without the need to follow them directly....
Don’t beat yourself up. Twitter is massively under-utilized — and under-understood (is that a word?).
For example, did you know you can upload videos, access analytics AND perform Twitter profile searches??
Yep, there’s SO MUCH you can do to leverage the power of Twitter for your business.
So where do you begin?
Right here! Below are 9 Twitter tricks that you’ve probably never heard of. Start using them asap!
|
Suggested by
eLearners
|
In an age where millions of people document their lives online, it begs the question: what are the psychological reasons behind Twitter? Read more about the psychology of social media here.
Do you have a tweet pinned at the top of your Twitter profile?
Do you know what that means?
Twitter lets you “Pin” a Tweet that stays at the top of your stream.
Then when people visit your profile they see that tweet first.It’s pretty useful!...
I realized very quickly that having a barren wasteland of Twitter followers wasn’t going to help me look knowledgeable or trustworthy to any of the websites I wanted to write for. So I set out to find ways to grow both my Twitter account (@nicoleckohler) and WebpageFX’s (@webpagefx).
Nine months later, I’ve added hundreds of new followers to both accounts.These are the three most fruitful, data-backed Twitter strategies I came up with to get more followers, compose better tweets, and ramp up engagement....
They add a few lines of HTML metadata to blog posts and other thought leadership content and enable brands to stand out from the pack in Twitter feeds that are full of text. They can help you drive website traffic, introduce new products and services, share rich content such as videos, and improve engagement. Bypassing the character limit also helps increase conversion rates.
Tweets with images and other media attract: - 89% more “favorites”
- 18% more clicks
- 150% more retweets....
Twitter has leveled the playing field for small businesses to take on global brands. With 284 million active users, a single Tweet has the potential to go far beyond any other form of communication and at an unprecedented speed. And with 72% of people more likely to buy from a company they follow on Twitter, small businesses everywhere need to start thinking big and take advantage of Small Business Saturday coming up in the UK (it was last week in the US).
A solid foothold on Twitter can be a challenge if your brand isn’t yet established, so to help your SME take that initial leap from unknown to well-known, we’ve compiled six essential steps to optimizing your Twitter account and getting the most out of the socially active audience. If you follow these tips and use our checklist below then you’ll have a Twitter strategy that matches your aspirations in no time....
|
Really useful guide and tips for creating Twitter moments.