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Twitter wants to make it easier to find new internet friends. A new ‘Connect’ tab on Android and iOS will link you to people and accounts it thinks you’ll enjoy following.
Although Twitter already has a ‘Who to follow’ section with a few suggestions, the idea is that Connect can give people an all-in-one hub for finding new and interesting accounts.
To come up with the suggestions, Twitter mixes in data such as who you currently follow, tweets you like, popular accounts in your local area, current trends, and more. When you open up the Connect tab, Twitter will show you why it’s making those suggestions, and it says suggestions will get better over time.
Though Twitter previously allowed you to view contacts from your address book, these are now available along with other suggestions through Connect. As before, Twitter will alert you when someone in your address book makes an account for the first time, too....
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....
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....
It’s Twitter contest time! We have the must-see ideas and examples to get you inspired. Once you’ve checked out Twitter’s contest guidelines, and you’re ready to get creative, here’s seven Twitter contest ideas and examples to help you plan an excellent contest of your own.
Are you looking for creative ways to improve your Twitter updates?
Do you want to spark better conversations with your followers?
Coming up with interesting content ideas for tweets can be challenging for social media marketers.
In this article I share 14 ways you can achieve more engagement with your Twitter audience....
Odds are, you've never met Dennis Hegstad. But you listen to him all the time.
Black Zara faux leather pants, black Vans, black Ray Ban sunglasses. The oppressive October sun beats down as Hegstad sips from a bottle of kombucha outside a coffee shop.Tilting his head to avoid the glare, wispy long blond locks fall into his eyes as he scrolls through his porcelain iPhone.
Cycling through multiple personas on more than a dozen Twitter profiles, his thumbs are set on rapid-fire: favorite, follow, post, respond, retweet, repeat. Finally, Hegstad looks up, the 25-year-old’s cobalt eyes trained directly on me.
“Sorry, I’m…”
Excuse his wandering attention: He’s not just tweeting for fun; he’s tweeting for big money--and he’s winning....
Have you implemented Twitter Cards on your site yet? If you haven’t, you really need to read this article!
Implementing Twitter cards is now essential.
You’ll have heard a lot about search engine optimization, where you optimize your content for Google. Social media optimization is the optimization of your content for social media platforms, and it’s becoming increasingly important.
What you do is provide additional information to social media platforms to tell them about your content. For example, you might want to tell them you have a good image and give them the dimensions so they can use this image on any posts that are shared....
Here’s a riddle: When is a tweet more than a tweet?
We’re all pretty familiar with Twitter’s 140 characters—and of course, a photo is always an eye-catching addition. But what if your Twitter audience could sign up for your email list without ever leaving Twitter, or directly download your new app straight from a tweet? What if a photo and article summary could travel alongside every post of your content?And what if you could do all of this for free, right now?
Twitter cards offer all this potential and more. In this post, we’ll go over everything a marketer or small business owner needs to know about Twitter cards....
Twitter is a fascinating adventure of relationships, entertainment, education, and fun. Now imagine layering on a few dozen powerups. That’s how it feels sometimes when you find just the right Twitter tool. And there’s a tool for practically every desire or whim.
Tools for productivity, for efficiency, for research, and so much more. With such a generous API, Twitter tools have become legion—and we social sharers are better off for it.
At Buffer, we tend to come across a fair share of social media tools. We’ve collected a great bunch to share with you! Here are all the tools we’ve found helpful and many more that we’re excited to try. If there’s a free Twitter tool out there, you’re likely to find a mention here in our list....
Use the examples of how these small businesses use Twitter to create a loyal following for your own business.
Want to reach marketing decision makers on Twitter? Then check out Leadtail and NetBase’s analysis “How Digital Marketers Engage on Twitter” based on the Twitter activity of 515 North American brand, corporate, and agency digital marketers between between April 1st and June 30th, 2013....
A study that sets out to identify spam Tweets from real social media content shows marketers how to tune out the noise, but also when to reach their target audiences. The research conducted by Gabriela Tavares and Aldo Faisal of the Imperial College of London discovered that Bots, or fake Twitter accounts, are active through all hours of the day unlike the people managing personal and corporate social media accounts.
According to the findings, which monitored Tweets in a 24-hours period, B2B companies will see the most engagement when they publish social media content during the first half the work day. Tweets peak around 10 a.m. after a sharp activity uptick in the morning, and continue to trend downward throughout the afternoon and into the evening....
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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!
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!...
Do you struggle to get Twitter followers who actually produce results for you in your business?
Social media isn’t a popularity contest – it’s a tool to connect us with the people and things that matter most in our lives. When it comes to Twitter, it’s possible to have 50,000 meaningless followers that do nothing for your business while another person may have 1000 followers that are highly active and engaged.
Which would you rather have? I know I would always choose the 1000 highly engaged followers over 50,000 followers that never end up doing anything to forward my objective for being on Twitter in the first place.
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....
Some analysts and investors have criticized Twitter for not doing enough to tweak its product and reignite user growth. The company sought to address that on Wednesday by promising to accelerate its pace of product innovation.
During Twitter's first-ever Analyst Day event, the Twitter team promised to launch new messaging, video creation and content curation features, among other services, in the coming months to make the social network more engaging to new and existing users....
Here is a simple and quick technique that has allowed me to triple my Twitter followers over the past few months. Maybe worth checking out!
I’m going to teach you how to spend about 10 minutes per week setting up a series of tweets that allowed me to triple my followers.
I have only just started and with 200 followers, it had nothing to do with user experience or growth.Check out the stats below from Twitter Counter. The blue line is my followers increasing and then red bars are the number of times I tweet per day....
I gave a rousing talk about Twitter and its essential role in marketing at the recent Content Marketing World event. The talk went over really well and I’ve had lots of nice comments about it so I decided to share some of my ideas with you.
This slide presentation contains a summary of some of my main points in the talk. It’s short and sassy and I think you’ll have some fun with it. There are just so many creative ways to use Twitter and most businesses overlook the amazing value there. Let me know what you think. Enjoy my slides!...
I will probably get beaten real hard for this headline, but at least it should effectively steal your attention (…you will thank me for this very soon)
Nobody is actually wrong.
I’ve reached out to pro bloggers and online marketers with one simple question: What is your #1 tactic for getting traffic from Twitter?
And every piece of advice I got was different, but completely legitimate.
However if you decide to follow it – you are very likely to fail.
That’s because of the gap between “what the blogger meant to say”and “what you thought he meant”.
So in this article I’m not just thoughtlessly copy/pasting the text that I’ve got from pro bloggers, but I’m actually going to explain the context that stands behind each answer....
If you weren’t among the more than 8,000 people registered for Mark Schaefer’s Twitter Power in One Hour webinar, this post will get you up to speed on what you missed.
Only three years ago, Mark didn’t see the point of Twitter. It was a slew of terms like ‘hamthrax’, ‘aporkalypse’ and ‘porkenstein’ that convinced him.“
I was watching a real-time global brainstorming session for a tongue-in-cheek list of alternative names for swine flu,” Mark recalled. “It made me realize we are on the cusp of something amazing here."
‘Cusp’ is the key word because, says Mark, most marketers have not yet leveraged Twitter for all of its potential. If you’re not following any of these rules yet, you could be among them..,.
Do you need more leads?
Have you used Twitter to find qualified leads?
Does the idea of finding new customers on Twitter pique your curiosity?
Many businesses don’t know how to cut through the clutter and find the people they’re looking for on Twitter.
In this article you’ll discover five ways to find leads and customers, engage with them and drive them to your products....
Here's how to create Twitter Lead Generation Cards. Use them to shorten your lead conversion path, improve user experience and boost your conversion rates.
Are you struggling to generate leads on Twitter?
Wondering how to display richer data in a tweet?
In this article, I’ll show you four steps to getting more leads with Twitter lead generation cards....
"What if I told you that you could become an industry “thought leader” without ever writing a blog post. Or, that you could achieve Twitter stardom without personally sending a single tweet.I didn’t believe it either, but some people are apparently doing it. Maybe even some people you follow. And you may never guess how they’re doing it.
Ghost Tweeting is one of a number of companies that have emerged to outsource the writing and distribution of all your blogs, tweets, and posts. They will even handle all the social media engagement for you. “All the benefits, none of the work,” reads the tagline on their website....
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New Twitter Connect tab will help you find interesting accounts to connect with.