Twitter Literacy (I refuse to ... Post-Oprah and apres-Ashton, Twittermania is definitely sliding down the backlash slope of the hype cycle.
It’s not just the predictable wave of naysaying after the predictable waves of sliced-breadism and bandwagon-chasing. We’re beginning to see some data. Receptional » Advanced Search Operators: How to Mine Twitter for Valuable Business Leads. Twitter can be a great way of investigating your market – and finding new leads for your business.
Launched in 2006, Twitter now has more than 230 million users. And those users post about 500 million Tweets every day. That’s a lot of information. How to Become a Twitter Search Ninja. With more that 140 million Tweets sent per day, Twitter contains tons of information from the collective public conscious.
Twitter offers a free, public search tool that lets you search through every public Tweet over the last few days, and you don't even need a Twitter account to use it. But sifting through all of that information can be a bit overwhelming. Advanced Twitter Search Tips For Social Media Managers. How do you sort through the clutter and find the conversations that matter to you on social media?
For social media managers, it’s particularly important to isolate Tweets that contain customer questions in order to use their social media channels to achieve the most important goal—quick and helpful interaction with customers. 10 Secret #Twitter Tips, Tricks and Hacks (That You Probably Don’t Know) So you think you know everything about Twitter?
I thought I did, too. Twitter Search Tricks for Finding the Best Tweets. An undocumented Twitter search operator helps you find the best tweets for any search term based on the retweeted or the favorited count.
Tweetdeck, the popular app for Twitter, offers a very useful search feature that helps you discover the more popular (viral) tweets for any search term very easily. While setting up a search column inside Tweetdeck (see screenshot), you can define an “engagement level” so that tweets that have been retweeted or favorited at least ‘n’ times only show up in the search results. The engagement filter surfaces the best tweets and removes the noise from Twitter search results but the most surprising part is that Twitter has not made this filter available outside Tweetdeck.
You don’t even have it inside the official Twitter app. Well, here’s the trick. Twitter Search Tricks for Finding the Best Tweets. Useful Twitter Search tips and tricks guide for beginners. Twitter is one of the most popular social networks and micro-blogging platforms out there, which reportedly has 320m monthly active users and more than 1B monthly unique visitors.
Twitter is always developing itself through various new features and options. If you are an avid Twitter user and want to explore this platform more to get most out of this, here is a great solution for you. The Twitter Search Box is one of the best search boxes for a social network. It provides so many options to find a particular thing quickly. Search Twitter More Efficiently with These Search Operators. 5 Cool Twitter Search Tricks To Monitor What People Are Saying About You. If you own a website or are just trying to earn money online as a freelancer, it is always good to know what people are saying about you over the Internet.
People may be citing you, sharing experiences about your services or recommending you. In any case, you may want to be there to answer any questions, make contacts, and so on. One of the best tools to listen to online conversations is Twitter and here are a few actionable suggestions. How to run advanced searches on Twitter and Tweet Binder. Twitter Cheat Sheet. Twitter Tools. How I increased my Twitter following by 1000% in 2 months. An Introduction to Social Listening With HootSuite University, Part 1. With the number of social networks on the rise, most businesses are now creating multiple accounts and pages for different audiences, locations and products.
While this expands their social reach, it also can be tough to weave your way through the mass of messaging that exists on each of these networks. With that in mind, HootSuite offers various streams and tools that serve as aggregators for social listening, helping users organize and prioritize. HootSuite University is there to guide you through these tools with practical, walkthrough video courseware. The following HootSuite University videos are part of a series on social listening. For the full courseware, sign up for HootSuite University. A Eulogy for Twitter - Adrienne LaFrance and Robinson Meyer. The beloved social publishing platform enters its twilight.
We've been trying to figure out the moment Twitter turned, retracing tweets to see whether there was something specific that soured the platform. Something is wrong on Twitter. And people are noticing. Or, at least, the kind of people we hang around with on Twitter are noticing. And it's maybe not a very important demographic, this very weird and specific kind of user: audience-obsessed, curious, newsy.
The publishing platform that carried us into the mobile Internet age is receding. 12 Steps to Earn 100,000 Followers. Social media results come from three things in equal measure: good karma, daily practice, and a ton of experimentation to see what works (or as I like to call it, “kicking the tires”). I wrote an earlier version of this article when I had recently reached a really cool, completely arbitrary milestone of 100 thousand followers on Twitter. Now that I’m nearing 350,000 do you know what I’ve found?
This advice has stood the test of time. I hope you find these steps as useful as I have. And remember, regardless of the number of followers you have or ever want, #1 is the only tip that really, really matters. 1. The number one rule of business, and of life: if it isn’t fun, you’re doing it wrong. 2. Instead of followers, we should call each other “people.” 3. About Twitter. Twitter’s IPO: Flying towards the stockmarket. Earthquake. Twitter is a news service. It’s been shaking intermittently on the Westside for a month now. And if you were here during the ’94 big one, and it was pretty big, let me tell you, you’re afraid. We like to feel in control.
But during a quake, we’re at the mercy of the world, there’s nothing we can do but hang on for the ride. And there’s no confidence, like at Disneyland or the ski area, that the government has tested the experience and no matter how fearful you might be, you’ll be o.k. Twitter Marketing Software - Community Management and Relationship Management Service for Social Media. 5 Reasons #Nonprofits are #Intimidated by @Twitter. So you’ve been hearing a lot about Twitter. When I first began hearing about the platform, I have to admit that I didn’t “get” it. I really didn’t understand how it worked, let alone the value in broadcasting random thoughts – why do I care what Justin Bieber ate for breakfast?
As the platform has developed (and I put a little more effort into understanding it), it has continually evolved into a news and networking source – a place to send short, specific information to supporters, partners, and like-minded organizations while reaching out to potential new connections. Your organization may be toying with the idea of getting Twitter up and running, but are you intimidated by the platform? Here are a few explanations of the aspects of Twitter that might seem a little scary: 1. If you “follow” more than 20 people, the home feed can seem fairly daunting if you’re trying to keep up with what everyone is saying. 2.
How Hurricane Sandy Slapped the Sarcasm Out of Twitter. Brendan Mcdermid/ReutersPeople congregate on Tuesday in front of a building in Manhattan that still has wireless Internet access. Twitter is often a caldron of sarcasm, much of it funny, little of it useful. But as a social medium based on short-burst communication, Twitter can change during large events — users talk about “watching” the spectacle unfold across their screens. Dick Costolo of Twitter, an Improv Master Writing Its Script. Marketing Chap: A Chap's Guide to Establishing Oneself on Twitter. Before turning the first spadeful of earth in the construction of this new edifice (merely a metaphor, chaps - no real manual labour will be undertaken), I want to make it clear that I am not the sort of chap to try and bamboozle you. There will be no 'free' advice that is in actual fact just a wretched attempt to part you with your hard-earned.
No, this is a bit of friendly patter between one chap and another. Or, when appropriate, between a chap and a chapette. Now, when one is new to a place (whether in real life or on this interweb shenanigans) it is important to become established, to introduce oneself to the right people, and gain a reputation as being a decent sort of chap. Agreed? You might say, 'Whoah, my good chap. A fair question, and decently put.
Twitter Not Yet A Mainstream Technology. AllTwitter - The Unofficial Twitter Resource. Twitter acquires blogging site Posterous to improve sharing. Twitter targets musicians. Twitter buttons. Who Gained From Twitter's Underpriced I.P.O.? Here is a list of companies that were worth less than Twitter’s twenty billion dollars, as of Friday afternoon: Macy’s, the department-store chain; Adidas, the sportswear firm; and International Paper, the paper giant. Macy’s and International Paper brought in twenty-eight billion dollars in revenue in their most recent fiscal years, while Adidas took in twenty billion dollars.
Twitter, the virtual corkboard for one-liners, brought in less than half a billion dollars last year. Those who felt the company was overpriced even at the initial price it proposed, which would have valued it at eleven billion dollars, should be forgiven for the misjudgment. (If this sounds self-serving—I was among the misjudgers—mea culpa.) The tone of the coverage of Twitter’s I.P.O. has been strikingly cheerful. This makes sense. Twitter Rolling Out New Features To Highlight Activities & Interactions. Blog.my6sense.com: Signal Over Noise: The Ultimate Algorithm for Twitter. Top Tweets from My Twitter Account, via my6sense. No Noise. Twitter is one of the biggest success stories in social networking and the tech industry in general over the last five years. Since its 2006 debut, the microblogging powerhouse has converted from a small audience of early adopters to playing a major role as the pulse of the planet, the go to destination for breaking news as it happens, or a shared social experience around entertainment events, calamities and public interest.
But even as millions and millions more have signed up for accounts, even its most supportive users see a gulf between the site and its potential - exacerbated by a continued problem with signal to noise. On Friday, well-respected blogger John Battelle explained his position, saying the site has incredible potential, but that it becomes impossible to get value from the stream. Tweet Cloud. Plus - ManageFlitter - Twitter Account Management. Twit Cleaner - Clean Your Tweetstream! Convert Twitter lists to RSS feeds with one click. How to Host a Twitter Chat That Rocks. Twitter for B2B Marketing Case Studies: Four Ways How Tweets Lead to Business. Twitter Tools. Third-Party Twitter Apps [HUGE LIST]