23 Seldom-Used Ideas for Utilizing Twitter Lists. 366 Flares Filament.io 366 Flares × If you’ve read any lists on Twitter tips, whether for beginners or for experts, you’ve likely come across the common advice to use Twitter lists. Twitter lists are useful, helpful, and effective for managing and optimizing your Twitter experience. There’s also a number of unique ways to go about them. I researched the topic and found 23 popular and outside-the-box ideas for what to do with your Twitter list. See what I learned in the post below, and add your favorite uses in the comments. 23 Ways to Use a Twitter List 1.
Find all your employees who are on Twitter, and collect them into a list. Doing so could be good motivation for some late adopters on your team to start accounts, and it could be good incentive for others to keep sharing. Example: We’ve put together a twitter list with the 25 people on the Buffer team. 2. Hashtags are another great way to collect tweets around an event. Example: 3. 4. Here are a few examples that Mark came up with: 5. 6. 7. Twitter to Release All Tweets to Scientists: A Trove of Billions of Tweets Will Be a Research Boon and An Ethical Dilemma. Five hundred million tweets are broadcast worldwide every day on Twitter. With so many details about personal lives, the social media site is a data trove for scientists looking to find patterns in human behaviors, tease out risk factors for health conditions and track the spread of infectious diseases.
By analyzing emotional cues found in the tweets of pregnant women, for instance, Microsoft researchers developed an algorithm that predicts those at risk for postpartum depression. And the U.S. Geological Survey uses Twitter to track the location of earthquakes as people tweet about tremors. Until now, most interested scientists have been working with a limited number of tweets. How to Remove Yourself from a Twitter List. Today, I gave some attention to a part of Twitter that I’ve pretty much ignored – lists. Yes, I’ve created a slew of lists, but I rarely go back to them unless I am doing some research on a particular subject or industry expert.
While I was checking my notifications, I noticed someone had added me to a Twitter list that would be more appropriate for my personal Twitter account. When I clicked on the list hoping to find a way to remove myself from it, much to my surprise, I did not see a way to do so. That’s when I decided to pay a visit to my good friend Google.
Here are the steps that Aaron shares with us: 1. 2. Related Resources from B2C» Free Webcast: Strategic Thinking: Social Media + Social Business Strategy 3. 4. 5. Voilà, I am no longer in that list. Removing yourself from Twitter lists is simple. Aaron warns us that blocking and unblocking will cause both of you to unfollow each other on Twitter. P.S. – Guess who I added to my list of cool & clever people? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. The One Mistake Almost Everybody Makes on Twitter [Quick Tip] As I hope you saw (and enjoyed), we relaunched the HubSpot blog as a totally reimagined, multi-section destination for inbound marketing, sales, and insider tips. We even added a features-focused section (Up and to the Right) by our very own Dan Lyons.
Naturally, since I was excited about this new chapter in HubSpot history, I tweeted. I forgot something, though ... @HubSpot's reimagined blog is live! Check out #InboundHub: — Jay Acunzo (@jay_zo) October 17, 2013 Did you spot it? This is a very subtle nuance to Twitter that plenty of folks miss: If you want all of your followers to see your tweet in their stream, you MUST start a tweet with a character and not an @username.
Yup, that's right -- that means all those tweets you sent starting with @ weren't visible to the audience you thought would see it. Why is this alteration to your tweets so important to get right? Here's a look at exactly who sees what kinds of tweets: Makes sense, right? Image credit: mkhmarketing. Twitter Literacy (I refuse to make up a Twittery name for it) - City Brights: Howard Rheingold. 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.
Nielsen, the same people who do TV ratings, recently noted that more than 60% of new Twitter users fail to return the following month. To me, this represents a perfect example of a media literacy issue: Twitter is one of a growing breed of part-technological, part-social communication media that require some skills to use productively. Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. When I started requiring digital journalism students to learn how to use Twitter, I didn’t have the list of journalistic uses for Twitter that I have compiled by now. One of my students asked me online why I use Twitter. Immediacy – it is a rolling present. A way to meet new people – it happens every day. Twitter Redesign: Hello, Facebook. Twitter's newest profile revamp prompts comparisons to Facebook, but the changes make it more usable. Here's what to expect. Twitter users: Your profile just got a heavy dose of Facebook.
Beginning Tuesday, Twitter will begin migrating users to a new profile design that it tested back in February. The new look features an extended cover photo with navigation tabs below it to view your tweets, photos, videos, accounts you follow, your followers, and lists. Your profile picture moves to a new left-hand column; below it are your bio, location, suggested followers, photos, and trending topics. Along with the new design, Twitter will launch three new ways for you and others to interact with tweets. For example, your tweets that receive more engagement -- such as more favorites, retweets, and replies -- will appear in slightly larger type "so your best content is easy to find," Twitter said in a blog post.
[Facebook has suffered some strikeouts during its 10 years. More Insights. TWITTER ANALYTICS 101 – GETTING STARTED. While browsing in my Feedly account, my eye fell upon an article about Twitter analytics on Friday. The article, ‘Revealing the World of Twitter Analytics’,by Social Media Today instantly caught my eye!
Love me some analytics, yet this, Twitter analytics, was news to me! The article started out by explaining where (i.e. under your Twitter Ads campaign) in your Twitter account you could find your analytics (they showed a screen shot) and then went on to show & tell (with more screenshots) their account’s Twitter analytics. All this was based upon the assumptionthat you would have ‘Twitter Ads’ and therefore ‘Analytics’ as an option on your account. I immediately looked at my @MoreInMedia account and at a few Twitter accounts I manage for clients, and it just wasn’t there…on any of them!
This is what I reread – first lines in the article about Twitter Analytics - Was I going to have to wait for it to roll out? What I was missing was Twitter Ads. Challenge? I saw this: I had analytics! Twitter’s Video App, Vine, Adds Private Messages. Twitter’s Vine video-sharing service released a new feature that allows you to send video and text messages to other people on Vine. Previously, the only option was for sharing Vine’s six-second videos with the public. The new option underscores the push by social companies to emphasize more personal, one-to-one or one-to-few forms of communication, in response to the rising popularity of apps like Snapchat and WhatsApp.
Facebook’s Instagram Direct launched in December. It allows users to send private messages on the photo-sharing service. Vine’s push into direct messaging might see greater pickup, as the app enables you to send videos to anyone in your address book, even if they aren’t on Vine. With the addition of Vine messaging, now Facebook and Twitter both have multiple direct-messaging channels. Mapping Twitter Topic Networks: From Polarized Crowds to Community Clusters.
Polarized Crowds: Political conversations on Twitter Conversations on Twitter create networks with identifiable contours as people reply to and mention one another in their tweets. These conversational structures differ, depending on the subject and the people driving the conversation. Six structures are regularly observed: divided, unified, fragmented, clustered, and inward and outward hub and spoke structures. These are created as individuals choose whom to reply to or mention in their Twitter messages and the structures tell a story about the nature of the conversation. If a topic is political, it is common to see two separate, polarized crowds take shape. They form two distinct discussion groups that mostly do not interact with each other. While these polarized crowds are common in political conversations on Twitter, it is important to remember that the people who take the time to post and talk about political issues on Twitter are a special group. What this all means Figure 2 Figure 3.
Twitter to be available on mobile phones without Internet. 12 Most Basic Twitter Etiquette Tips. It’s been a while since I have been on Twitter and for me it’s one of the most powerful social media platforms. I thought it might be helpful if I shared some basic Twitter etiquette that I’ve learned along the way. Sometimes, it’s a challenge when you have to convey your thoughts in 140 characters or less and that is the beauty of this platform.
It makes you creative. With almost 340 million tweets per day and over 140 million active users, the platform is being used by individuals and brands alike. The challenge lies in the Twitter being used effectively and its imperative that we follow some basic etiquette when using it either for business or personal use. Remember, you have followers to impress and that’s how social media works. 1. “Egg Head” is the default avi that Twitter uses when the user registers. 2. Twitter allows you to have a short bio. 3. No one would want to read usernames like @IAmTheOwnerOfABCompany or @TheGuyWithGreatLooks. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Malhar Barai. Are you making the most of Twitter Cards? With the recent Initial Public Offering (IPO) of Twitter on the New York Stock Exchange, there has been a great deal of attention on the micro-blogging site and how it plans to increase its profitability (likely through advertising) to satisfy hungry investors.
Although there has been much publicity regarding the company’s recent move to preview images directly within a timeline feed (seemingly a move to court advertisers who can push their brands more), the introduction of ‘Twitter Cards’ in June 2012 seems to have gone almost unnoticed and still represents a missed opportunity for brands and bloggers alike who are yet to take advantage of them. Twitter cards The power of Twitter cards cannot be overstated. Twitter says: ;They make it possible for you to attach media experiences to Tweets that link to your content… and help you richly represent your content within Tweets across the web and on mobile devices’.
This is a very smart move on Amazon’s part. Twitter Gallery Cards. This is How You Use Twitter to Find a Job. Understandably, Twitter is now the second-most used social media site for finding work; only LinkedIn trumps tweeting for finding our next gig. But how many of us are leveraging Twitter in the best possible way to find work? We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Erin Osterhaus, HR Analyst at Software Advice (and a person who knows a thing or two about using Twitter for job search) about exactly how to leverage Twitter to build and execute a successful job search strategy… YT: What makes Twitter such a good tool for job seekers?
Erin: Twitter is more responsive, and also more transparent than other recruiting channels. With job boards, job seekers often have no way of directly connecting with the recruiter or the hiring manager. And with LinkedIn, applicants have no way of knowing who has viewed their profile unless they decide to upgrade to a higher membership status. With Twitter, there is more, for lack of a better word, equality. What Twitter's Expanded Images Mean For Clicks, Retweets, And Favorites. I recently covered some big changes that Twitter has made, and here is another one. Twitter just added inline images to tweets so that you don’t need to click a link to see an attached image, but rather the Tweet itself expands. This only works with images uploaded directly to Twitter, which use a pic.twitter.com URL. If you Tweet a Vine video, you’ll also see this inline on Twitter.com or in the official Twitter apps for iPhone and Android.
On top of that, you can easily post any image you find on the web, straight as a fully expanded image to Twitter with Buffer’s browser extension. How Twitter’s newly expanded Tweets stand out in the stream Here’s what Tweets with images look like now on Twitter.com: And here’s how it looks in the Twitter stream: In the official Twitter apps for iPhone and Android, images are automatically expanded as a preview, and you can tap to open the full image. Dan also found that Tweets including Instagram links were 42% less likely to be Retweeted. 1. 2. 3.
62 Twitter Tips -- in 140 Characters or Less Each | Simon Young. 5 Twitter Hashtag Tracking and Analytics tools. #Hashtags, #Hashtags everywhere! The world went berserk since Twitter’s Hashtags were introduced back in 2009. The world was so serious about it to the extent that Hashtag was the ‘Word of the year‘, even Facebook announced Hashtags recently in June 2013 and also there was a baby named ‘Hashtag’! You can go on and say a lot against Hashtags and their importance, but their value is unquestionable in this world that is insanely connected. The internet is made up of long and short messages delivered online and Hashtags provide with a way of grouping such messages, where one can search for a hashtag and get the set of messages that contain in it. Quoting Wikipedia: The first use of the term “hash tag” was in a blog post by Stowe Boyd, “Hash Tags = Twitter Groupings,” on 26 August 2007, according to lexicographer Ben Zimmer, chair of the American Dialect Society’s New Words Committee.
Hashtags are not much different to the ‘keywords for finding information’. Hashtagify.me Visit Website Twubs. Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online | Wired Business. Ev Williams has figured out the internet. That’s what he told the gathered tech heads at the recent XOXO conference in Portland, Oregon, and while he may have said this with tongue partly in cheek, he spent the next 30 minutes unloading his unified theory of the global computer network, an interpretation formed after 20 years of hard thinking — to say nothing of his experience creating seminal internet companies Blogger and Twitter.
In his speech, Williams explained what the internet is, how it works, and how to get rich from it. Truth be told, Williams is not the best public speaker, but his message was clear: At a time when so many internet entrepreneurs are running around Silicon Valley trying to do something no one else has ever done, Williams believes that the real trick is to find something that’s tried and true — and to do it better. It’s a speech that should serve as a signpost, a bit of much-needed direction for the Valley’s younger generation. — Ev Williams Go Back to Top. What Not to Say on Twitter. How Is Your Twitter Etiquette?
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