100 Ways to Become a Twitter Power User. Social Media Analytics: Twitter: Quantitative & Qualitative Metrics. 12 Awesome Tools For Efficient Twitter Searches. Twitter 101: Tips and Tricks. 10 Awesome Twitter Analytics and Visualization Tools | Twitter Tools and Tips for Twitter Success. Recently Twitter rolled out their native analytics platform for all users and now you can get some quality data about your tweets directly from Twitter. After researching over a thousand Twitter Tools for the Twitter Tools Book I came across many Twitter analytics and visualization tools. These Twitter tools were designed to add value by presenting a different way to visualize or analyze your tweets, the people in your network, and the tweets from the people in your network. Many tools tried to add value and failed.
At least they tried. The following tools, however, stand out in my mind as exceptional or entertaining and I recommend you check them out if you want to analyze and visualize your activity on Twitter. 1. TweepsMap is an excellent Twitter tool for both analyzing and visualizing your Twitter network. As it’s name suggests it does this by showing you how your followers are distributed on a map, in terms of percentages. You can see the distribution of my followers below. Unique. 2. 5 Tools to Be More Efficient on Twitter. As much as I love Twitter it can sometimes really turn out to take up more of my time than it should. Here is a list of 5 amazing tools I am using which can help you to bring down your time spent, yet without trading in on the impact you are making: 1# Manageflitter – Get rid of some Twitter Noise In order to get started on Twitter we have to follow people.
There is nothing new about it here. Yet once you followed a large amount of people it can be quite hard to see clearly on your timeline again. It lets you easily unfollow all those Twitter users which make no sense for you to follow: The inactive ones, the ones that don’t follow you back or the loud mouths cluttering your stream. The best bit: Manageflitter’s UI is pretty awesome I like to believe. 2# Buffer – Stop annoying your followers Now, that you can breathe a little easier on Twitter the least thing you and I want to do is to clutter other people’s timelines. This is where Buffer is super handy. Best bit: Connect: Authored by:
5 Twitter search tools to help you avoid the Where's Wally syndrome. For many people using Twitter is a bit like plating the kids game 'Where's Wally? ' - you what you want is in there somewhere, you just can't find it! In the game (example above) there is a mass of people in an image and one Wally (left) to find amongst the crowd in the pictures. Can you find him above? Twitter is the same - there are 60+ million tweets a day and 200+million people using it. How do you find things on Twitter that are useful to you? >> By the way - can you find the Twitter bird in the picture above? It is all about using the right tools to find what you want - whether that is people, information or trends etc. Here are five tools that I really like that will help you find what you are looking for on Twitter: Monitter - www.monitter.com. Twitter lets you create Twitter lists. There are of course many other tools to use, and the most obvious ones like search.twitter.com and socialmention.com are two of the best for searching Twitter.
11 Twitter tools you (probably) don't know about. Editor's Note: We are running this story again as part of our look back to the top social media stories of 2011 on Ragan.com. If these tools are no longer new to you, please suggest a new tool that may not be on your peers' radar. There are some great Twitter apps, sites and tips out there that you might not know about. Here are some of the best tools available to help you get the most out of your Twitter activity. 1. TweetEffect TweetEffect is an excellent tool both for business and personal use. By searching for any Twitter username, you can see a summary of how many follows or unfollows that account gained over the past 30 days. Where TweetEffect gets really clever though, is where it provides a full summary of your tweets, telling you which ones caused you to gain or lose followers, as well as how many followers you gained or lost.
Business users should monitor this to look for patterns. 2. 3. 4. TweetDeck has a handy option that allows you to monitor your latest followers. 5. 6. 7. Design Your Own Twitter Background! Best of the Web - 1000 Twitter Apps, Tools, Clients, and Services. Trick or Tweet? Seven Twitter Tools To Help You Measure, Learn, and Improve. Last week, I celebrated my 5th birthday of joining Twitter! As far as I can tell, the first arrivals on Twitter from the NpTech sector were Ruby Sinreich and Brian Reich who signed up two weeks before me. So, in honor our collective Twitter birthdays in October and Halloween, I thought I’d share a few Twitter tools for tracking and learning that are real treats and a few that make your work flow on Twitter efficient for documenting events. I track to learn and improve relationships on Twitter. I don’t bother with click rates or influence leader board scores.
Some reflections questions I used to understand the data: What content/links are of interest to the people who are engaging with me? Who is regularly retweeting me? Do you need an easy way to track tweets from an event in real time? Susan Tenby from TechSoup Global told me about socialbro. Crowdbooster is another Twitter analytics tool that gives you a lot of interesting charts and graphs and data. Timely and Buffer do the same thing. Available now: a guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities. You can now search Twitter offline using CloudMagic. CloudMagic, the cross-platform, cross-browser extension that makes searching Google services easier than ever, has just added Twitter support to its arsenal of tools. The extension initially launched supporting Google products only, including Gmail, Google Apps Mail, Google Documents, Contacts and Calendar, and now Twitter has been added to the list of supported services. CloudMagic also supports multiple accounts, and more services are on the way, including Yahoo, Facebook and Hotmail.
After installing the extension, when you’re on a Twitter page, or any given Google page, a small floating search bar which you can drag and drop will be visible, allowing you to search for content. You can select whether or not you want the CloudMagic search bar to automatically appear when you’re browsing Twitter, Gmail, Google Calendar and Documents through the extension’s preferences. 10 Twitter Tools to Boost Your Efficiency. Twitter recently announced that over 200 million Tweets are posted each day. This is an incredible figure, underlying the success of the service. Spending time on Twitter boasts plenty of advantages, yet I’ve found that one can get easily sucked in and spend too much time than is good for our workflow. So here are 10 great tools that I am using each day to make the most of Twitter, whilst still remaining productive. Buffer – Tweet More Great Content Buffer Reading news and browsing Twitter always were two different things for me.
You can do this from wherever you are with the handy browser extensions for Chrome, Safari or Firefox. Best bit: What I find very handy is that for every tweet sent via Buffer you will receive detailed analytics on number of clicks, retweets and reach. Tweriod – Tweet Only When Others Listen Tweriod An App that has helped me greatly to optimize my Tweeting habits is Tweriod. StrawberryJ.am – Read Only Most Mentioned Tweets StrawberryJam TwentyFeet ManageFlitter Twilert. 7 Ways To Send Audio Tweets On Twitter. Twitter is an awesome social networking site and having a very minimalist look as I already posted in the Blueprint Of The Twitter. Even though Twitter is having lots of awesome features, people love to add more features like 15 Ways To Tweet More Than 140 Characters . There are already few popular services to post images and videos to Twitter.
And now you can also send the audio tweets on Twitter. 3 Methods To Create Your Own Searchable Twitter Archive. If you want to secure your tweets against any issues that might happen to Twitter and its servers, consider backing up your Twitter shares. If you use Twitter as a bookmarking tool sharing the most interesting links you come across, you may want to create a searchable archive to be able to quickly find a link you remember sharing a few days or months ago. Twitter search could be a good solution (there is also a handy from: operator that allows you to find all tweets from any user) but it is only able to work for recently shared links.
Twitter search only stores tweets for up to 10 days. If you want to be able to search through older tweets, consider using one (or all) of these tools to create a searchable archive of your tweets or any other Twitter-powered databases. 1. The great thing about Twitter is that almost everything has an RSS feed. From now on, your Twitter archive will be stored within your Google Reader giving you flexibility to search using some Google advanced operators: 2.
Twitter och källkritik, hur fungerar det? Twitter är en bra utgångspunkt för att fundera kring hur vi avgör vem som är avsändare i sociala medier. Hur vet vi att den som utger sig för att vara avsändare verkligen är det? Hur gör elever för att avgöra vem som är avsändare? Dagens inlägg handlar om twitter och hur vi i sociala medier är ganska utlämnade till att den information som avsändaren gett oss för att avgöra vem som är avsändare. Twitter escultura de arena by Rosaura Ochoa CC (by) Twitter brukar betecknas som en mikrobloggtjänst i vilken användarna har 140 tecken, som en SMS, att dela med sig av sina erfarenheter, länkar och annan information. Det är ett enkelt verktyg som tillåter många användningsområden. Tjänsten används av många: allt från Kolla Källan till kända politiker till kändisar som Lady Gaga och Stephen Fry.
Kändisar använder mikrobloggen Det är många kända personer som har tagit mikrobloggtjänsten till sig. Hur vet jag att det är Lady Gaga som twittrar? I Alyssa Milanos bio står det följande: ☮, ♥, and BASEBALL. How To Analyze Use of Twitter and Other Social Media. © Creative Commons adriel [at] adrielhampton.com September 5, 2010 One Saturday, I noticed that my pal Nick Charney was getting a lot of buzz on Twitter while speaking at a big conference. In addition to his fearless innovation, Charney is well-known for his hairstyle, long bangs with a flip.
I decided to have a little fun with Nick and his fans, and quickly set up a Twitter account for his hair, weaving it into the Twitter conversation around his talk and following several hundred Twitter accounts that advertise that they follow back other Twitter users. In 24 hours, Nick Charney’s hair had more than 500 followers on Twitter. Twitter following, like many social media metrics, is ridiculously easy to game. Yet, in much mainstream news coverage of political campaigns on Twitter and other social media, numbers of followers are generally the primary metric used to compare candidates. Quality, Not Quantity Broadcast and Conversation Transparency In toto Key Numbers Gaming Follow Counts The Tool Kit. Most Wanted Twitter Hacks and Plugins for WordPress. Looking to harness the full power of Twitter to drive traffic to your WordPress site? When used effectively, Twitter can help you find new users, expand your content reach, and bring traffic to your site.
In this article, we will show you the most wanted Twitter hacks and plugins for WordPress. 1. Floating Social Bar Floating social bar adds social buttons on top of your content including Twitter’s tweet button. 2. Buffer is one of the must use tools for every blogger. The best part is that you can schedule for days and even weeks in advance if you really want to. 3. Many WordPress themes and plugins allow you to add social buttons to your website. You can easily generate a code for your username and then paste it in a widget or in your child theme. 4. If you are using Floating Social Bar, then you will not need this because Floating social bar already comes with Tweet button. Simply visit the Twitter website and generate a code for your user account. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Social Media Science: The Five W's of Twitter Marketing | Cracking the Code of Internet Marketing.
If you’re doing any kind of Internet marketing you know the importance of fact gathering especially if you’re just starting out investing time, money and resources in social media. We’re now well into the “early majority” phase of social media, it’s time to take a look at some interesting data for a peak behind the social media curtains. When strategizing your marketing campaign it’s critical to give yourself the highest chance of success. And by that I mean taking meaningful actions from reliable data not just making assumptions. The “medium” is no longer the message, just habits and channels. The message, in fact, IS the message. The Five W’s (and one H) of Twitter Twitter is probably one of the most talked about social media platform amongst marketers. Since insights don’t announce themselves, I’m going to use the reports from Edison Research, Hubspot, Dan Zarrella and Pew Research to illustrate my points.
Why Tweet Why people follow people? Who Tweets What to Tweet When to Tweet. A Tweet's Effect On Rankings - An Unexpected Case Study. Let me tell you a tale of an unexpected case study on the value of a tweet on a page's ranking and traffic. This tale will mostly be told using graphics, as the images tell the story better than I can. Let's begin...
Last Monday while I was checking the morning tweets, I noticed a ton of tweets about our Beginner's Guide to SEO. It didn't take long to realize that Smashing Magazine had tweeted about it and the retweets were seriously rolling in. (And yes, they really did spell Beginers wrong ;). Exhibit A - The Initial Tweet I quickly emailed the marketing team, with a "Sweet! Exhibit B - Rand's tweet as we realized we were ranking for general keyword Whoa. Rand had searched on "Beginner's Guide" about a month or two earlier and it wasn't anywhere in the SERPs, and we definitely weren't getting any traffic for that term. Exhibit C - The SERP Sure this was really interesting but the question was "will it last? " All pretty interesting but we all know ranking isn't everything right? 100 Creative Twitter Backgrounds Featuring Illustration.
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