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3 Twitter Tools to Enhance Your Marketing. Are you looking for tools to help better manage your Twitter presence?

Managing your Twitter presence along with your other online networks can be difficult if you have limited resources. In this article, you’ll discover 3 tools to make your basic Twitter marketing tasks easier. #1: Manage and Analyze Your Community with SocialBro Every business needs at least one management tool to manage its Twitter presence, and there are many excellent Twitter management tools to choose from. SocialBro is one of my favorites, thanks to the excellent features it offers. Twitter Etiquette: In A Little More Than 140 Characters. Hello.

My Name Is Jamie And I Am A Twitter Addict. I want to be upfront with you: I’ll admit it, I’m a bit of a Twitter snob. I don’t mean to be. It’s just that I use the service so often and can’t help but see what’s wrong with it, or how people are misusing it. 5 Things You Can Do Today To Improve Your Twitter Performance! - Pete Olsen: The Twitter & Social Media Guru. New Twitter Data: Optimal Link Placement for Clicks. If you like social media data and science like this, my latest book “Zarrella’s Hierarchy of Contagiousness” is now only $1.99 in Kindle Edition (which will work on any computer or device).

Buy it now! One of the questions that I’ve been asked the most in the years I’ve been doing Twitter data analysis is where in a Tweet is the best position (beginning, middle or end) to include a link to get the most clicks. I had always assumed the end was the best, so I never thought much about the question. But about a month ago, I decided to actually look at the data about it and test my assumption. Over the course of the next few weeks I gathered 200,000, random, bit.ly-link-containing Tweets. The entire heat map symbolizes a Tweet, with areas to the left in the beginning of the Tweet and areas to the right at the end. It turns out that the best area for clicks is about 25% of the way through the Tweet.

New Twitter Data: Optimal Link Placement for Clicks. If you like social media data and science like this, my latest book “Zarrella’s Hierarchy of Contagiousness” is now only $1.99 in Kindle Edition (which will work on any computer or device).

Buy it now! One of the questions that I’ve been asked the most in the years I’ve been doing Twitter data analysis is where in a Tweet is the best position (beginning, middle or end) to include a link to get the most clicks. I had always assumed the end was the best, so I never thought much about the question. But about a month ago, I decided to actually look at the data about it and test my assumption. Over the course of the next few weeks I gathered 200,000, random, bit.ly-link-containing Tweets. The entire heat map symbolizes a Tweet, with areas to the left in the beginning of the Tweet and areas to the right at the end. Where in the World Are Your Twitter Followers? TweepsMap Knows. 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: TweepsMap Quick Pitch: TweepsMap provides a visual, interactive map of your Twitter followers by country, state or city. Genius Idea: Measures the effectiveness of Twitter campaigns by analyzing the locations of your followers. Top Twitter Analytics Tools. With hundreds of add-on tools, Twitter certainly has plenty of ways you can analyze its data.

I set out to find the best tools that I would recommend for you to track and compare your own Tweets, as well as examine the growth of followers and when you actually send out your 140-character missives. My two faves are TweetStats and Twittercounter. Create Multiple Twitter Accounts. A Visual History of Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC] The Social Media Infographics Series is supported by Vocus' Social Media Strategy Tool, a free, six-step online tool that lets you build a custom social media framework tailored to your organization’s goals.

Since its launch in the summer of 2006, Twitter has become the leader in microblogging, limiting even its most famous users to a concise 140 characters. This infographic details Twitter's most influential content creators, staggering adoption rates, and struggle to turn a profit. Curious about The Biebs' first tweet?

Wondering which event caused the latest tweets-per-second record? Scroll on down for a bird's eye view (see what we did there?) Infographic design by Emily Caufield Series supported by Vocus. DataSift Launches Powerful Twitter Data Analysis And Business Intelligence Platform. DataSift, a big data business intelligence and analysis platform for Twitter, is finally opening its doors today to the U.S. public.

DataSift was born out of Tweetmeme and was announced at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco a year ago. Founded by Nick Halstead, DatSift is one of two companies with rights to re-syndicate Twitter’s firehose of more than 250 million Tweets a day (the other one is Gnip). Developers, businesses and organizations can essentially use DataSift to mine the Twitter firehose of social data. But what makes DataSift special (besides the premier access to Twitter data) is that it can then filter this social media data for demographic information, online influence and sentiment, either positive or negative.

Because DataSift can search for Twitter posts and information using metadata contained in Tweets, the possibilities of mining data at a very specific level are endless. Of course, the hope is that Twitter won’t enter this data syndication market itself. 5 Scientifically Proven Ways to Get More ReTweets. Extreme Twitter Makeover: How To Tweet Your Way to Success. Unfortunately, there is no official Twitter manual with definitive ways to tweet.

You have to do what feels right and take your cues from your fellow tweeps. These tips in this easy Twitter tutorial are not set in stone in any Twitter Bible, they are simply my opinion of how to tweet more effectively. Below I’ll serve up a few “rules” I feel are important, break down a “retweet,” and give some real life examples of how I would construct a tweet. A Few Common Rules and Definitions: @: “@” is what you’ll see before someone’s username. Twitter Account Hacked? How To Stop The Spam. Spamming your Twitter followers with links to diet sites, specious videos, or links to "pics"?

You're not alone. From the slew of sketchy Direct Messages we've received from our followers and the numerous apologies popping up in our Twitter timeline, it seems that a large number of Twitter users have been compromised by spammers who are hijacking their accounts to share links to malicious sites. What can you do if your account has been hacked? Twitter's Help Center has a helpful guide to four steps you should take (Visit Twitter's Help Center for more detailed instructions). First, change your password by selecting "Settings" from the dropdown menu next to your account name, which is listed on the top right on Twitter.com, then navigating to the "Password" tab. Next, make sure you've turned off access to your account for any suspicious-looking or unknown third-party applications. Generally speaking, if someone you follow sends a tweet that seems highly out of character (i.e. The Twitter Glossary.

Advertise with Promoted Accounts. Meet your newest evangelists. Promoting your account is one of the quickest ways to build an active community of advocates and influencers for your business. The bigger your follower base, the more people there are to engage with and spread your message. Twitter for Business. Making Twitter more secure: HTTPS. Today, we’re taking an important step to make it easier to manage the security of your Twitter experience – we are adding a user setting that lets you always use HTTPS when accessing Twitter.com.

Using HTTPS for your favorite Internet services is particularly important when using them over unsecured WiFi connections. 5 successful Twitter marketing campaigns you should know about. While Facebook gets a lot of the attention when it comes to ‘sexy’ marketing campaigns by brands, there are some great examples from Twitter, that show how brands are using the platform to their advantage, to engage with followers in new ways. We’ve put together a list of some of our favourite Twitter marketing campaigns, to provide you with some inspiration and great case studies for reference : The Volkswagen Twitter Zoom A great example of a live and interactive Twitter campaign from Volkswagen in February this year, to promote their sponsorship of the Planeta Terra Festival.

They hid tickets to the festival all over the city, and shared the location with users via a map. The trick was however, that the map (using Google Maps) would only zoom in to reveal the locations based on how many people shared the hashtag #foxatplanetaterra on Twitter : The campaign was a huge success for Volkswagen, as within 2 hours the hashtag was a trending topic in Brazil – not an easy feat. How Twitter Works as a Q&A App [INFOGRAPHIC] If you think about it, Twitter actually serves as one of the most widely used and engaging Q&A apps. Around 3 million questions are asked on Twitter each month, and the questions range from tech support and product recommendation requests to job and relationship advice, as well as pleas for new music.

And the more followers you have, the more likely you are to ask them questions publicly. People with fewer followers tend to send questions via direct messages. But around 20-30% of asked questions never get answered. The below infographic from Q&A service InboxQ contains tons of fun — and valuable — facts about how Twitter is being used by average folks and businesses to ask and answer questions.

Available now: a guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities.