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The Top 50 Twitter Tools for Business. Twitter Marketing Tools and Twitter Strategies to Boost Business Results. Here's why.

Twitter Marketing Tools and Twitter Strategies to Boost Business Results

You see, the amount of information you can add to your Twitter profile is limited. For example, a Twitter bio only allows 160 characters max. Make no mistake that its important to fill out the profile information. This will help you build credibility and gain more followers. After all, part of your Twitter business strategy should be to gain targeted followers. An incomplete profile will decrease the probability someone will follow you simply because they'll question your legitimacy. You'll be glad to know using a customized Twitter background allows you to include additional information about yourself, company, products, and brands. Not only that but a professional Twitter background will radiate professionalism, increase credibility and trust, and let's you stand out from the crowd.

In fact, include all social media (Web 2.0) contact information you use with your Internet marketing strategy. 14 Twitter Tools for Enterprise Business. Optimize Your Twitter in 4 Easy Steps. Today your consumers are the most detrimental members of your marketing department.

Optimize Your Twitter in 4 Easy Steps

They don’t spend hours analyzing and constructing best practices, they simply share and publish their raw emotion and opinion of your product to billions of people. If you are utilizing Facebook to join the conversation, you are among the 70 percent of small business owners. Currently, only 40 percent of businesses are utilizing Twitter- but this social media platform’s popularity is only predicted to increase.

In fact, Twitter has been deemed the conversational search engine of our time. Shouldn’t you be the most interesting person in a conversation that consumers are already having about you? Tip: To see if your desired name is available across all social media platforms, check out the social media tool, NameChk. 3. How-to: Customize your Twitter background, by clicking on your settings, then the “design” tab and hit “change background image” and upload the image of your choice.

Connect: Authored by: Best Twitter Client for Social Dashboard. 22 best Twitter apps for 2012. The microblogging service Twitter has become a very big deal, enabling everybody to depose dictators, mock X Factor contestants and lose their jobs for posting offensive things when they're drunk.

22 best Twitter apps for 2012

Top 60 best free iPhone apps 2012 However, while the service itself is really simple the choice of desktop Twitter software isn't. From stripped-down clients to do-everything social media dashboards, there are stacks of Twitter programs to choose from. So which ones are best? Here are 22 options for 2012. 1. The official Twitter website is a marmite affair: some people hate it, while others really hate it. 2. The Iconfactory's Twitter app normally costs $9, but Twitterific is currently half price on the Mac App Store and there's a stripped-down free version to play with too. 3.

Echofon is available for almost everything: there are iPhone and iPad apps, a Firefox extension and desktop versions for Mac and Windows. Top 11 Twitter Tools and Twitter Best Practices - Brandhackers Pres... Twitter Posting Best Practices for Better Big Brand Engagement & Interaction [Study] Depending on the industry, big brands may actually see better engagement posting tweets on the weekend, rather than on weekdays, according to a new Twitter engagement study from Buddy Media.

Twitter Posting Best Practices for Better Big Brand Engagement & Interaction [Study]

Twitter differs from Facebook in that it may actually be better to post during the “busy hours” of 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. (all times referenced are EST), whereas on Facebook, the non-busy hours of 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. may lead to higher engagement. These insights are contrary to recommendations we reported on from Bitly last month; they advised that the sweet spot for tweeting was between 1 and 3 p.m., Monday to Thursday. There are a few identifiable reasons for the huge discrepancy, so don’t write off the studies just yet:

10 Twitter Best Practices for Brands. Michael Brito is a social media strategist and community builder at Intel.

10 Twitter Best Practices for Brands

You can catch him writing in his social media blog, or at all hours of the day/night. These are his thoughts and opinions and do not reflect that of his employer. Having a Twitter profile doesn’t mean you’re a social media master, but it is a great tool for conversations, building community and finding the latest industry news.