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How To Find Your Best Time To Tweet: The 4 Most Accurate Methods. 1.7K Flares Filament.io 1.7K Flares × Finding the right time to post on social media can be tricky, especially when each different social network has its own audience to think about.

How To Find Your Best Time To Tweet: The 4 Most Accurate Methods

And we’ve written a few different articles here on the Buffer blog that touched on how to come up with the best time to Tweet. And yet, we never quite dedicated a full article to the topic. 10 Free Twitter Tools You Might Not Know about but Should Probably Be Using. 5 Effective Steps to Help You Build a Strong Twitter Presence. Right from the early days of Twitter I decided to start working on building my brand there.

5 Effective Steps to Help You Build a Strong Twitter Presence

Now with over 5,000 visitors in the last 30 days, Twitter is my number one referral traffic source. And it has actually always been on the top of the list for the last few years. Lilachbullock.sharedby.co/share/9qt3Oo. Get Started with Twitter and HootSuite - Alexandra Samuel. By Alexandra Samuel | 10:00 AM April 2, 2013 With so many people drinking from the Twitter fire hose, it’s no wonder that some people have suggested that it can replace the soon-to-be defunct Google Reader.

Get Started with Twitter and HootSuite - Alexandra Samuel

But that vision is based on the mistaken idea that Twitter, at its heart, is a news medium. I believe there’s a better way to use Twitter: as a relationship medium, one that helps you find, connect, and converse with people. Being the first with a nugget of industry gossip is nice, but creating, nourishing and sustaining meaningful working relationships is far more fundamental to your professional success and career development. And with thoughtful use, Twitter can help support those relationships. As I describe in Work Smarter with Twitter and HootSuite, published today by Harvard Business Review Press, the key to making effective, satisfying use of Twitter is to keep your attention focused on the people who matter most to you.

Why You Should Be Tweeting Every Hour. Twitter By Marc Guberti, Published June 30, 2013 One way to get more followers is to tweet as much as you can.

Why You Should Be Tweeting Every Hour

This does not mean tweeting ten updates in one minute and then not tweeting for the rest of the day. Hootsuite allows you to schedule your tweets so that you can send out tweets throughout the day. 7 Ways To Get Retweet After Retweet. Everyone wants as many retweets as they can get.

7 Ways To Get Retweet After Retweet

If you get a lot of retweets, more people will see your tweet and follow you. We all want retweets like Seth Godin who sometimes gets thousands of them for a single post. A majority of his tweets have over 100 retweets as well. 5 Twitter Tools To Manage Your Social Community. The never-ending job of managing your community, whether you are a marketer or a community manager, is a hard task if you want to do it right.

5 Twitter Tools To Manage Your Social Community

On Twitter, it is imperative that you keep up with the pace, engage with your followers, and never lose track of a relevant interaction or discussion that involves your brand. 10 Tools To Make The Most Of Twitter. Living without Twitter is something that I couldn’t imagine anymore.

10 Tools To Make The Most Of Twitter

How to Find and Pitch Media Contacts on Twitter. When you’re on a bootstrap marketing budget, you can never have too many friends in media.

How to Find and Pitch Media Contacts on Twitter

If you don’t have those connections now, there’s still hope. You just might be able to win a few new media friends with the social media darling, Twitter. Twitter has been a favorite of the media and public relations professionals since its beginning back in 2006. The quick, “cut to the chase” 140 micro blogging site is perfect for sending out quick editorial queries, source requests, or soliciting feedback on headlines. I’ve put together some tips below to help you transform Twitter into the latest weapon in your PR arsenal. 10 Tips for Tactical Tweeting. Could Yammer be the death of your organisation? Yammer boasts that it is in use by over 90,000 companies and organisations, including over 80% of the Fortune 500.

Could Yammer be the death of your organisation?

That’s an incredible achievement, but its also quite scary. Many Yammer initiatives are opened by a few engaged people who pull their organisations into the amazing world of enterprise social networking. How many of those organisations are likely to have considered what happens if there is a data breach? Or have they considered what their clients would say if they knew sensitive client issues may be discussed on Yammer hosted forums? To be clear, this post takes no issue with Yammer or any similar service. 53 Microblogging APIs: Twitter, TwitPic and What The Trend. Our API directory now includes 53 microblogging APIs.

53 Microblogging APIs: Twitter, TwitPic and What The Trend

The newest is the Sohu Microblogging API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Twitter API. We list 708 Twitter mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of microblogging APIs. In terms of the technical details, REST and XML lead the way. The most common tags within microblogging are 41 social microblogging APIs, 24 Twitter microblogging APIs and 14 blogging microblogging APIs On the mashup side, we list 251 microblogging mashups.

The Rise of Micro-microblogging, and How to Use It. Traditionally the internet has been characterised by a small percentage of online content creators and commentators, and a majority of spectators. The Forrester Social Technographics Ladder has been a well documented visualisation of this. A small proportion of creators have been shaping the face of consumer content online, but are we beginning to see a shift? Twitter in particular has helped to turn non-bloggers into bloggers (and effectively creators), at a micro level.

The 140 character limit, platform flexibility, and scope for sharing images have all helped to make it a popular and easy way for people to collect and share online content. But with the majority of today’s connected adults being time poor, and attention being split across a mass of social and media channels—not to mention devices—we’re seeing an increasing appetite for platforms and situations that are enabling even quicker action. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Connect: