HOW TO: Use Tweet Buttons as a Blogger or Site Owner. The official Tweet Button has arrived; and while it's as simple as a single click to use for the vast majority of end users, it brings scores of questions for casual and professional bloggers and other publishers. How can I put a tweet button on my WordPress.com blog posts? How can I check the stats for my tweet button links? How do these buttons work with Blogger? Here are a few quick pointers for how to use the official Tweet Buttons for fun and profit. If you have questions about how to integrate the buttons with a specific platform, be sure to let us know in the comments; the Mashable staff and community would love to help you out! The Basic Code First of all, Tweet Buttons work with a little bit of HTML and a little bit of JavaScript. If you're relatively code-savvy and you feel like getting fancy, you can also build your own dang Tweet Button using this link (that's twitter.com/share) and customizing the styling and behavior of the button itself any way you choose.
Any Other Tips? 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. 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. 50,000 Tweets and All I Got Was Everything. 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business. We really can’t deny the fact that businesses are testing out Twitter as part of their steps into the social media landscape. You can say it’s a stupid application, that no business gets done there, but there are too many of us (including me) that can disagree and point out business value.
I’m not going to address the naysayers much with this. Instead, I’m going to offer 50 thoughts for people looking to use Twitter for business. And by “business,” I mean anything from a solo act to a huge enterprise customer. Your mileage may vary, and that’s okay. Oh, and please feel free to reblog this wherever. 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business First Steps Build an account and immediate start using Twitter Search to listen for your name, your competitor’s names, words that relate to your space.
Ideas About WHAT to Tweet Instead of answering the question, “What are you doing?” Some Sanity For You You don’t have to read every tweet. The Negatives People Will Throw At You Twitter takes up time. HOW TO: Use Twitter Hashtags for Business. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. If you've used Twitter for more than a couple of hours, you've probably already seen a tweet or two containing a word with the hash symbol ("#") attached to it.
That's what Twitter users call a "hashtag," and at any given time at least one of them can usually be found among the trending topics on Twitter. But what exactly is a hashtag? Hashtags are essentially a simple way to catalog and connect tweets about a specific topic. They make it easier for users to find additional tweets on a particular subject, while filtering out the incidental tweets that may just coincidentally contain the same keyword. You can create a hashtag simply by appending the hash symbol to a word, like this: #hashtag. How to Utilize Existing Hashtags Unfortunately, as hashtags have become more popular, they've also become a vehicle for spam.
101 for Business — A Special Guide. 4 Ways Companies Use Twitter for Business. Gartner released a report today that highlights the different ways that companies are adopting Twitter for business use. Although Twitter was originally intended for communication among individuals, a number of organizations have begun to actively participate on the platform. However, not all companies are using Twitter in the same way. Some are tweeting, some are just listening, and some really savvy companies are doing both. Before any company employees start tweeting, it would be a good idea to remind them that the same rules that apply to other web participation (like blogging, for example) also apply to Twitter.
Based on Garnter's research, they have narrowed down the four different ways that companies are using Twitter today: direct, indirect, internal, and signaling. Direct Some companies are using Twitter as a marketing or public relations channel, much like an extension to their corporate blogs. Indirect. Using Twitter for business - Blog - Notes from a Messy Desk. 40 of the Best Twitter Brands and the People Behind Them. We all know brands are using Twitter — whether or not you want them around. Some of them don't quite get the medium and just tweet self-serving links or marketing speak, but you won't find any of those brands here. We've handpicked 40 of the best brands experimenting with the micro-blogging platform, and asked them a few short questions about how they're using Twitter.
If some of their responses seem short, well that's because they are. I asked each brand correspondent to answer our queries in 140 characters or less. Most of them got the point, a few rambled on a bit too long, and only asked me if "u" was acceptable in lieu of "you. " Smart brands use Twitter in meaningful ways, and most of them use their brand name as a way to make sure customers can find and recognize them. And if you're a brand that didn't make our list, let us know why your tweets deserve consideration in the comments. Cars Who cares what a car company has to say in 140 characters or less, right? Chevrolet Ford Honda. 16 Examples of Huge Brands Using Twitter for Business. Washington Post Tells Journalists Not To Engage on Twitter. The Washington Post sent a memo to its staffers telling journalists not to answer critics from Post-branded Twitter accounts or to use their personal accounts to "speak on behalf of the Post.
" The memo comes after the Post published a controversial guest article online, "Christian compassion requires the truth about harms of sexuality," by Tony Perkins. The article was published after a number of suicides by teenagers, who were bullied for being gay. The article argued that homosexuality is a mental health issue, which prompted GLAAD, a gay activist group to complain about the article via Twitter and on its site. Responding to GLAAD's public tweets, a staffer from The Washington Post tried to defend the publishing of the article as giving a platform for "both sides" of the debate. The response only fueled more frustration from GLAAD, which took to Twitter to say that there aren't two sides to the issue at all: The Memo Encouraging Dialogue, Community A Broken Model For Conversation.
10 Dos and Don'ts for Brands on Twitter. **This series is supported by the Social Influence System and WE twendz™ pro, presented by Waggener Edstrom Worldwide. To learn more visit Waggeneredstrom.com/nozombies. When it comes to Twitter and brands, consumers who are also Twitter users have plenty to say on the subject. We've interviewed a few folks, analyzed a couple of streams, and come up with ten common, recurring requests and complaints from users who've engaged with brands on Twitter.
As it turns out, the rules they expect brands to follow are distinct from the code they expect "normal" users to follow. Check out these dicta and caveats, and let us know your experiences and best practices in the comments. 1. Don't Be a Showoff Give Twitter users your features and benefits. 2. If your replying 2 a user make sure ur social media intern doesnt do it like this LOL! Seriously, grammar Nazis abound on the web. 3. 4. 5. If you're carrying on a series of @replies, don't wait a day or two between messages. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Use Twitter for your Business the Right Way. More and more Businesses are getting onto Twitter. The word’s out – but so many businesses get it wrong. In this post Aira Bongco (@airabongco) shares some tips especially for businesses wanting to use Twitter effectively. Image by photoj :-] You may have seen a lot of companies using Twitter to promote their products and services.
Some do it discreetly by sending in various links to your direct message box while some generally tweet their website links on a constant basis. However, these people got it all wrong. We, Twitter folks, view these promotions nothing more as spam. Here are some tips to rub your Twitter followers the right way. 1. Twitter followers are people. 2. Before you go into blasting business messages through Tweetlater, it would be advisable to create relationships first. 3. I remembered encountering a Twitter follower and we had a nice chat. You know what I thought during that time? The lesson here is to promote your product at the right time and place. 4. 5.