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. 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. There are a few different ways to help us decide what timing we should go for, especially for Twitter, so I wanted to take a look at four ways we can experiment with timing of Tweets. 1.) If I had to suggest just one of these approaches to determining what time is best to Tweet, it’d be this one. You can test this out with a bunch of different tools, but I’m going to use Buffer to show you some examples, since it’s so easy to do within Buffer. 1. 2. 3. And here’s an example of what our analytics would look like: 4. 5. 2.) There are a number of tools that help you come up with the best times to Tweet. 3.) 4.) 10 Free Twitter Tools You Might Not Know about but Should Probably Be Using. There are tons of apps and online tools available that can turn you into a Twitter rockstar. But with so many choices, it can be tough to know which tool is the best one to use to meet your particular needs.
I’ve been there and done that myself. I’ve poked around, searching for different metrics of Twitter accounts only to test drive multiple services to find what I was looking for. Having done all this testing, I have no problem with saving others from wasting their time looking for the same things. So here are 10 common questions that come up when managing Twitter accounts accompanied by 10 great, completely free online tools that can help answer these questions. What Are the Statistics of My Competitor’s Twitter Account? Twitonomy is a great all-around free Twitter analytics tool. How Can I Find Popular Tweets by Hashtag? There are some tasks that seem to be next to impossible to do using free Twitter tools. Tweetchup can help you out in this area. When Are My Twitter Followers Online? 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. 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 The fact is with enough high-quality followers, you have the potential of drawing a lot of traffic from Twitter right to your blog. But of course followers are not all there is to Twitter… I’ve seen accounts that rarely receive a SINGLE retweet on their shares even though they have hundreds of thousands of followers under their belt. To see success you should look at different directions and take into consideration multiple factors.
The aim of today’s post is namely to give you a glimpse over some of those other factors that matter. In the below paragraphs I have devised a list of five of the things I do to stay on top of my Twitter marketing aside from getting people to follow me. Let’s get started: 1. What is the morale here? 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. 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. Instead of the self-organized sphere of Google Reader, you can use Twitter as a system where others do the filtering for you: a network you’ve assembled that is telling you to “check this out,” or better yet, “read this, and here’s why it matters 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. 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. A majority of Twitter users are making the mistake of not scheduling a lot of tweets on the same day. If you ask someone how to create a successful blog, social networking account, or business, the main thing is consistency. By tweeting once an hour, your tweets will constantly appear on your followers’ timelines.
Another thing to consider is that the time zones of countries are different. I used to tweet a few time per day. Once you get used to tweeting once every hour, tweeting a quantity of quality tweets will be easy. 7 Ways To Get Retweet After Retweet. Everyone wants as many retweets as they can get. 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. These are some of the ways that we can get a lot of retweets, and eventually, as many as Seth Godin himself. 1. Write your own blog posts. If you tweet link after link of other people’s content, people won’t know who you are. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Those are the 7 ways that you can get retweet after retweet. 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. 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. This means you have to be everywhere at all times, ready to catch a new trend, or initiate it. If you are the one in charge of community relations for your company, you should familiarize yourself with the vast array of Twitter community tools, and flush out those that are most relevant for your needs and goals. 1.
This is a simple, yet highly effective tool for analyzing your Twitter followers. Once you sign up, Tweriod will start the work, and inform you by email or a DM when the results are ready. Related Resources from B2C» Free Webcast: Blogging in the Age of Modern Marketers The tool is free for up to 1000 of your followers. 2. 3. 4. 5. 10 Tools To Make The Most Of Twitter. Living without Twitter is something that I couldn’t imagine anymore. The amount of great people that I have met through there is just incredible. What I appreciate the most is the large number of targeted people you can reach interested in the same topics as you. Yet, as we spend more and more time on Twitter it can easily consume a lot of our time.
Here are my 10 top tools to make the most of your time on Twitter. 10 Tools To Make The Most Of Twitter Tweet Without Flooding Your Followers Buffer Buffer is a new way to send out tweets more conveniently. Make the most of it: With Buffer’s browser extension (Chrome, Safari, Firefox) you can add tweets from any website, inside Google Reader and even Twitter.com. Create Blogposts from Tweets TweetWally TweetWally is a very interesting app that allows you to collect tweets from your followers and turns it into a TweetWall you can post as a blogpost. Read Tweets Clutterfree Google Alerts for Twitter See Who You Engage With The Most Sum Up. 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. 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. How to Find the Media One of the easiest ways to find relevant media contacts that cover your beat is to check their current publications. Making Contact Once you have found contacts handling your beat, jump in there and “follow” them. How to Truly “Follow” Once you start to gain momentum on Twitter, it can become hard to catch everyone’s tweets in your twitter stream. 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. 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. What do I need to think about? Most web hosted services boast terms and conditions that reveal a reasonable set of guidelines around content ownership and user privacy measures. What would the cost be to your enterprise if data shared on these services was revealed?
Wouldn’t it be easier to just not use these services? Developing enterprise social media policy What next? 53 Microblogging APIs: Twitter, TwitPic and What The Trend. Our API directory now includes 53 microblogging APIs. 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. For reference, here is a list of all 53 microblogging APIs. Adocu API: Single word microblogging service BackTweets API: Twitter link search service BeliefNetworks API: Semantic Intelligence, Site recommendations service Bentio API: Microblogging Service Blake.lt API: Lithuanian microblogging service Blellow API: Microblogging platform and social network Blipea API: Hispanic micro-blogging service Bnter API: Social conversation service What The Trend?
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: Authored by: Fraser Robinson.