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Startup Tweets You Offers Based On Where You Check In. The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Local Response Quick Pitch: Local Response tweets deals to customers based on where they check in. Genius Idea: Scanning Twitter for location-revealing checkins from Foursquare, Foodspotting, Instagram and other services. While your friends might not care about the photo of your lunch you just blasted to their Twitter feeds, it could be valuable information to the restaurant where you're eating.

Local Response wants to help businesses collect and respond to their customers' public posts. In other words, when customers check into a store on Foursquare, the store can send them a coupon while they are there. "The consumer has already publicly expressed a relationship," explains Local Response president and Media6Degrees co-founder Kathy Leake. Series Supported by Microsoft BizSpark. 5 Quick Ways to Liven Up Your Twitter Stream. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

With a billion tweets per week, Twitter has become a place for people and organizations of all types to share their thoughts, reading lists and whereabouts. Real estate pros, politicians, non-profits, journalists and small businesses are all using the social platform to connect with their communities and meet organizational goals. Whether you're a Twitter novice or tweeting pro, there are always ways to improve your presence on the microblogging service. Here are five ways to make your Twitter stream more valuable and dynamic for followers. 1. Get Visual A sampling of photos recently tweeted by Gregory's Coffee If you're at a loss for words, try sharing pictures or videos instead. Brands are using photo sharing apps in creative ways to bring fans closer to the action. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Best Practices for the Twitter Changes | the hubze blog. InboxQ: Your customers are on Twitter, asking questions. Answer them. - TNW Social Media. A few weeks ago Twitter got its fifth birthday badge. In that half-decade most of us have barely figured out how to abbreviate our survival efforts into 140 characters spurts. But be honest with me: You still don’t really understand how to properly use social media to market your business, do you? I don’t believe any of us truly understand the equilibrium of push and pull at play here, a point brought home to me when Columbia Journalism School digital media professor Sree Sreenivasan asserted we’re in the baby days of this communication revolution. We revel in what we know. It’s been said 10,000 times you can use Twitter to listen to customers, to create impromptu hashtag-based communities and even receive reminders for task deadlines.

But the fact of the matter is the real fire under the hood is fuelling a customer, not commercial, revolution. So what do we do? Finally, someone switched the light on If it’s answers we’re seeking, we’ve first got to find the questions. In seconds. 21 tips to get your tweet on! Create your own tweet infographic. 5 Quick Ways To Liven Up Your Twitter Stream. With a billion tweets per week , Twitter has become a place for people and organizations of all types to share their thoughts, reading list April 19, 2011 With a billion tweets per week, Twitter has become a place for people and organizations of all types to share their thoughts, reading lists and whereabouts. Real estate pros, politicians, non-profits, journalists and small businesses are all using the social platform to connect with their communities and meet organizational goals. Whether you're a Twitter novice or tweeting pro, there are always ways to improve your presence on the microblogging service.

Here are five ways to make your Twitter stream more valuable and dynamic for followers: 1. Get Visual A sampling of photos recently tweeted by Gregory's Coffee If you're at a loss for words, try sharing pictures or videos instead. Brands are using photo sharing apps in creative ways to bring fans closer to the action. 2. Social technologies, like Twitter, aim to connect people. 3. 4. 5. TweetMeme Button. Resources. Listorious: Twitter people search and lists directory. How To Use Twitter Lists. 5 ways to keep your Twitter followers happy. Twitter unveiled Web Intents: Here's how to use them - TNW Twitter. How to Become a ‘Twitter Guru’ in 6 Easy Tweets. 5 Terrific Twitter Apps For The Business User | Smedio | The New Media and Social Web Guide for Business and Marketers.

Twitter in the last couple of years or so, has changed the way social media marketing is done or as I personally believe has become the single largest tool in this regard. So, if you are one among those marketers on twitter looking for a comprehensive tool that will assist your campaign, then here are 5 tools that could well have the features your were looking for. Co Tweet CoTweet has a lot to offer in terms of features, its increasing popularity tells the story, some of its features include: Multiple accounts and multiple users; Monitor keywords, trends; On duty notifications; Assign updates to colleagues; Conversation threading; Click on any username to view rich profiles, Click tracking; Tweet scheduling; Multi-account posting; Message archive. Media Funnel MediaFunnel will put you firmly in control of your organization’s Twitter and Facebook use.

With support for multiple Twitter and Facebook users and accounts, tweet and post scheduling, email tweeting and brand alerts. Buzzom Trendrr. Tweet like it's 2005 with the paper tweet notepad. Twitter Launches New “Connections” Feature. Tweetdeck officially unveils Deck.ly, for tweets longer than 140 characters. Deck.ly is Tweetdeck’s latest feature that allows users to post Tweets longer than 140 characters. We covered its first mention last week, but it is now officially here. Iain Dodsworth, founder and CEO of Tweetdeck told us via email: “What we’re doing here first and foremost is delivering on the most requested feature we’ve ever had. Our users want to post messages over 140 characters and this is one feature we thought we should build ourselves.

I don’t see how this would draw anyone away from Twitter, it value adds Twitter – something we’ve been doing since day one.” Deck.ly allow users to send any messages in any length, including embedded images, videos etc. In their recent blog post, Richard Barley, Tweetdeck’s community manager, says they’ve launched updates to their Desktop, Chrome and Android apps which support posting for Deck.ly long updates, as well as viewing those sent by other TweetDeck users. See a video of how it works here:

Smartr Turns Twitter into an Organized, Mobile News Reader. Twitter Counter Acquires Popular Twitter Stats Provider Twitaholic. Using Twitter: A Really Simple Daily Checklist | Tim's Strategy. NEW to the blog? Sign up for email updates and I’ll keep you in the loop each time I have something new to help you. A lot of people are still trying to figure out how to use Twitter. What to say. When to say it. And how often. And when I consult for companies or chat with friends about Twitter, I often get a curious look. If you’d like to see some people doing it right, check out @unmarketing or @MayhemStudios.

But first, here are the five keys to success on Twitter. Know your purpose Why are you taking time out of your busy day for social networking? Be interesting Some decide to venture out without a photo. Talk to people If you are using Twitter solely as a broadcasting tool. Stay on message There are many reasons people will follow you on Twitter. Be consistent You can’t just dip your toe into the water and expect to become a good swimmer. Be a list maker Creating a list on Twitter allows you to categorize those that you follow (for easier following). 1. 2. 3. A. B. C. D. E. F. 140 characters not enough? How to squeeze more into your tweets. It can sometimes be a bit of a challenge to fit everything that you want to say into 140 characters on Twitter.

Luckily, there are a few tools that you can use help squeeze more in without cutting down on what you want to say. Find shorter words with Thsrs The most effective way to get your character count down is to opt for shorter words. If you’re struggling to think of a briefer alternatives to the words in your tweet, try Thsrs – the Twitter thesaurus. If you want to complete your tweet without having to shortening words like you’re writing a txt msg, Thsrs is well worth a try. Link to a longer tweet with TwitLonger or Deck.ly If you just can’t get your tweet to squeeze down far enough, TwitLonger comes to the rescue. Another option is Tweetdeck’s newly launched Deck.ly service, which allows for not only longer tweets, but comments from readers too.

Speak your mind with an audio app If you have a lot to get off your chest, why not just speak? Maybe it’s better just to blog it. How to: Integrate PeerIndex into Twitter Profile Pages. Twitter Symbols.