When Twitter lists were first introduced many people were very skeptic, others (like myself) didn’t have the time to use them properly and to figure out how the feature can benefit them. Through the months after the feature launch I’ve been randomly experimenting with it and came to some great results. I’ve already shared; How …
So many people use Twitter to get the latest up to the minute news these days that you need some help pruning the wheat from the chaff. If you can follow just those users with the best information and produce some high quality tweets and re-tweets of your own then you will keep everyone happy, …
According to a new study, no one really cares what you’re tweeting.* … #wtvr Of course, it didn’t really take a study of 1.2 billion tweets to find that out, though at least now we know just how much people don’t care! No, it didn’t take a study because if you just use Twitter, you’d …
Even though they have had their new search out for a few weeks now, Twitter’s new real-time search engine is just now starting to get noticed…which the micro-blogging site thinks is great. The previous back-end was powered by technology based on Summize, but the engineers behind Twitter say that keeping up with all the traffic …
I had an interesting discussion with Jeremy Koch of Pertnear (the guy responsible for 88,000 fans, in 4 weeks, at half price) to try to answer some questions a lot of businesses have right now about social media marketing: How do we monetize Twitter and Facebook? Should we wait to build audience on those platforms …
Twitter launched Promoted Tweets in April of this year, to allow businesses to highlight ordinary tweets that they would like to reach a wider audience. These tweets appeared at the top of search results pages that have something to do with what users were looking for. The tweets were labeled as promoted is the business …
Users of Bing’s Social Search will now get recommendations of people they should follow on Twitter when they perform a query, similar to the feature that Twitter already offers. This feature exceeds in some topics, for instances bands and celebrities; the site even lets you know if the account is authentic by displaying the blue …
Getting people to join, subscribe or follow is only one step in the process of building the powerful community around your brand or product. Another hard, yet crucial step is engaging your community members, getting them to return to your site and participate. Twitter lists can be a great help in reminding your community members …
A couple of weeks ago I took a look at some examples of how brands collect and leverage Tweeted feedback – which has a positive effect: This creates favorable social media context around the brand (and thus makes it “friendlier”); This engages users to promote the company social media profiles (by adding them to friends, …
If you have ever tried to search on Twitter you know that it is pretty frustrating. The search results don’t go back very far at all, only about a week. Twitter isn’t very concerned at the moment, however, with creating a search interface that helps you travel back in time – they have more pressing …
