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Be Better at Twitter: The Definitive, Data-Driven Guide - Megan Garber - Technology. A study based on 43,000 responses to Tweets found precisely what people like -- and loathe -- about microblog posts. If you could construct, algorithmically, the Most Annoying Tweet Imaginable, it might look something like this: The Most Annoying Tweet Imaginable, in other words, would be overly long. It would contain stale information. It would #totally #overuse #hashtags. It would be excessively personal. All this, at least, according to a new study, released today, that explores what we like in our tweets -- and what we find really, really off-putting. One piece of advice: Nix the "sandwich tweets. " In that context, tweets that are informative or funny -- or, ideally, informative and funny -- evoke the best responses. So: Do be useful. And: Don't be afraid to be self-promotional. This may seem like overthinking it; spontaneity, after all, is a big part of Twitter's charm.

With that in mind, here's their advice for creating that content. Image: Jeff Turner/Flickr. How To #FollowFriday. Overwhelmed by new features? Tickers? Open Graphs? What about Hangouts and Circles? Well, Twitter doesn't have those things. Twitter still exists because it's not going bananas with new features all the time.

There's no room. Today is Friday, and on Twitter that means it's #FollowFriday. Twitter Is For Sharing People Facebook is turning its "profile" into a "timeline. " Twitter is for sharing people. To help us discover new Twitterers to try, Micah Baldwin (@micah) created a holiday. A Hashtag Holiday #FollowFriday is a weekly chance to expand our minds by discovering users recommended by the people we follow. Here's an example: Seems simple enough, doesn't it? Introductions Matter Not long ago, Twitter didn't offer much help for users trying to discover new people.

"When #FollowFriday started," Baldwin says, "the only thing that Twitter had was the Suggested User List, and it was absolutely a popularity contest. " Micah Baldwin (@micah), founder/CEO of Graphicly and creator of #FollowFriday. Twitter more robust than it may seem. Jack Dorsey, left, and Biz Stone launched Twitter in 2006. Five years after its inception, Twitter's status seems in flux -- but it's actually doing just fineQuantcast: There has been a 50% jump in Twitter usage in the past five monthsNo other service gives the impression of immersing you in a global conversation Editor's note: Chris Taylor is San Francisco bureau chief of Mashable, a popular tech-news blog and a CNN.com content partner. (CNN) -- In the beginning was a word, sketched on a legal pad.

And the word was Status. That was the working title used by programmer Jack Dorsey in 2000, when he designed the service that was to become Twitter six years later. An urban-design geek, Dorsey envisaged a city full of people buzzing short messages at each other the way taxi dispatchers and bike messengers do. Today, five years after its inception, Twitter's status seems in flux. On the other hand, all is not well in Status City. Twitter up to 1 billion tweets a week In a word: no. Twitter Community Organizing Rules for Non Profits. Note from Beth: I love when I discovered folks who are community organizers and successfully transfer what they know about community organizing offline to the online world. Robin shared some of her thoughts in the comments of a recent blog post, and I invited to share her community organizing rules for Twitter. Enjoy. As a community organizer, Twitter makes a lot of sense.

Organizing is about building relationships and mobilizing people around a cause. Organizations, although they enter with brand recognition, don’t always become dynamic members of the community. The following list of rules, I created for my own organization to help the decision makers understand a little clearer how to be more than a town crier getting lost in the traffic noise and make Twitter work better for us, our time investment, and our cause.

Robin’s 10 Twitter Rules for Non Profits 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. . • Decide on your audience target (there may be more than one). • Decide how you measure results (ROI). 9. 5 ways Twitter changed how we communicate. Since launching on March 21, 2006, Twitter has signed up roughly 200 million users. On Twitter's fifth birthday, we look at five significant changes the site has made Twitter has eliminated the filter between some celebrities and their fans It has created thought leaders but sometimes dumbs down conversations (CNN) -- Happy birthday, @twitter. The groundbreaking microblogging site, which has alternately been called a powerful tool for democracy and an emblem of all that's wrong with our short-attention-span digital age, turns 5 years old today. On March 21, 2006, CEO Jack Dorsey wrote the post that started it all: "just setting up my twttr.

" (For the record, Twitter, on its official blog, describes a message from Dorsey that appears to have been posted a few minutes later, "inviting coworkers," as the first official tweet.) Since then, the site has picked up about 200 million users, making it one of the most-visited services on the Web. 1. With Twitter, it's fast on steroids. 2. 3. Good #FollowFriday Mindmap. Today I have 3 rea­sons to express Gratitude: It’s Good FridayIt’s #Fol­lowFri­day on TwitterIt’s been I year since I joined Twitter Here’s my way of show­ing grat­i­tude for all the fan­tas­tic peo­ple I’ve con­nected with on Twitter. You know I love to express myself with images, car­toons, mind maps, sto­ries, metaphors… Alors, voilà! Among the 2 264 peo­ple I fol­low, I’ve selected the ones I inter­act the most with (125). You can visu­al­ize this map here and click on each branch where you will be con­nected directly with people’s twit­ter accounts, or blogs.

I intend to refine this map which started in august 2009. Mind map­ping could be an extra­or­di­nary per­sonal and lead­er­ship devel­op­ment tool, cre­ative, inter­ac­tive, intu­itive, feminine! After one year, I’m draw­ing per­sonal con­clu­sions about Twit­ter: The Call of the Mer­maid.We often refer to twit­ter as “the stream”. So, back to this Good #Fol­lowFri­day MindMap! 125 peo­ple. 125 amaz­ing peo­ple. The Oscars, On Twitter: Over 1.2 Million Tweets, 388K Users Tweeting. Twitter has changed the way we watch television. Say what you will about the 83rd Annual Oscars (and thus far the consensus is “meh”), you’ve probably already said it on Twitter. Mass Relevance and TweetReach, a Twitter analytics service with commercial access to the Twitter API, have teamed up to make a data map of yesterday’s mass conversation.

Over 20 Oscar-related terms like “Oscars,” “#Oscars,” “Academy” (but no specific names of celebrities or movies) were tracked between the hours of 5:30 and 8:45 PST during the show’s live airing. Total damage? 1,269,970 tweets, 1,663,458,778 potential impressions, and 388,717 users tweeting. The honor of most retweeted tweet of the night went to The Onion with the above zinger (sorry @parislemon). And the highest tweet peak was shortly after the internet friendly Auto-Tune montage at 7:20 pm PST, clocking in 11,780. Update: Here are the top ten retweets, in order of frequency (#s below each tweet). The 4 Stages Of Understanding Twitter. I remember when I started using Twitter for the first time. It was after I had checked out a speech by Gary Vaynerchuk on YouTube, and I wanted to know what the hell he was talking about. Sure enough, there I was, face-to-face with a beginning giant in the social networking world. I hooked up my own account and started following people I didn’t know, but I liked their status updates.

Soon I started talking to a guy who has since been like a mentor to me. Sure, we’re soon going to have the same number of followers, but his approach to Twitter has always made me feel humbled and appreciative of his advice. Of course, I am talking about our very own TwitterMaster, Calvin Lee (@mayhemstudios). His efforts surely haven’t been missed by many. At first, I was questioning the usefulness of this new social networking site called Twitter. I have always felt like the learning curve for Twitter has been quite easy and simple. Click Image To Enlarge Image Credit: [Roobee]