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Sweeter Icon - Social Candy Icons. Download Round Simple Social Media icons. Twitter interface change today: reflecting mobile. Today you may have noticed a relatively large change to the way you're experiencing Twitter on the web.

This is because Twitter is pushing their newest user interface to the web in a big way. While they announced this change up back on the 13th of January, today is the day that the largest cross-section of users will gain access without any effort on their part. Inside you'll find a "whitened" sort of look, as if Twitter has just finished brushing its teeth. White boxes are joined with a bit more letting in all text areas, making the whole setup look a lot easier on the eyes. Users will also see a light blue continue to be used throughout this UI. 7 Tips for Building a Social Media Audience. Self-proclaimed "social media gurus" are a dime a dozen these days.

When it comes to a successful social media marketing strategy, it can be tough for small businesses to sort through the noise, statistics and flurry of misinformation. One statistic we found online, for instance, claims that a Facebook fan is worth about $174 — but ask a small business with 300 Facebook fans if they've seen that $52,200 reflected in their revenues and you're likely to get a skeptical look or chuckle.

For small businesses seeking to engage audiences via social media and get the most bang for their buck, figuring out where to start — and more importantly, how to leverage the huge potential of an engaged online audience — can be a daunting task. Let's forget about the statistics and wild claims, and focus instead on good, old-fashioned advice. Why Hashtags Fail (And 4 Other Digital Marketing Disasters) [INFOGRAPHIC] If I were to start from scratch on Twitter, this is what I’d do. I joined Twitter (@jonworth) just over five years ago.

Now with 40659 tweets, 9665 followers, and following 4641, I have accumulated a fair amount of experience using the network – and that’s just with my own personal account, let alone the dozens of accounts I have for other purposes. I’ve never bought any followers, and think I have managed to build a following through being fair, responsive to questions sent my way, and hopefully somehow useful to the people that follow me. But yesterday at an event in Odense in Denmark I was asked for ideas about how to make the first steps on Twitter, and to build a useful network. How, I then wondered, would I do it were I, as an individual, to be starting from scratch? This is my best effort to answer that question. 1) What do you care about, and know about?

2) Learn the basics of who sees what on Twitter In short: it is not as simple as it initially seems. 3) Present yourself clearly and simply How you present yourself on Twitter matters. Tasmiatasin: My pearltrees ->... When Twitter Poops On You: 4 Social Media Lessons From AskJPM Snarkpocalypse. JP Morgan’s social media marketing plan on twitter proved to be a textbook example of how not to do social media.

After a six-hour long hilarious spectacle, JP Morgan headed “back to the drawing board,” pulling the plug on a social media marketing disaster on twitter that triggered a so-called ‘Snarkpocalypse’. The bank decided to promote the hashtag #askJPM to open up a mass Q&A on Twitter. The questions that came in were, to say the least, probably not what JP Morgan had in mind. Instead of receiving tweets of fiscal inquiries (or whatever it was they were expecting to hear from the masses), the infamous hashtag invited instead, a sweet trollish revenge from the bank’s critics, victims of its catastrophic mortgage mishap, reporters, pundits, those who simply delight in jabbing humor, and pretty much everyone else on Twitter.

Ouch! By 10 am EST, after only six hours, the tag had over 24,000 mostly critical tweets. Here’s what you can learn from the JP Morgan Snarkpocalypse. 1. 2. 3. 4. 3 Twitter Tools To Help You Track Your Twitter Growth. If your business has a presence on social media, then you also need to track the progress you make.

Interacting with prospective clients on social media is a great way to gain brand recognition, and build future relationships. Twitter is an important platform for businesses to share industry information and attract potential customers, but have you ever wondered if you’re doing a good job? What kind of impact is your business making? The History of Hashtags [Infographic] In the pre-Twitter days, # was known as a pound or number sign, the lowliest key on a telephone's numeric pad.

Then, in 2007, Twitter placed the pound sign in front of a targeted word to identify tweets on a specific topic—and the hashtag made its Twitter debut. Its arrival on the social platform didn't lead to automatic acceptance from Twitter users, however. Folks first had to understand what a hashtag was and how to use it. Hashtag use finally took off in 2009, when Twitter started automatically linking anything preceded by the pound sign. Since then, the hashtag's popularity has continued to grow. To learn more about the hashtag's journey from little-known character to a social media must-have, check out the following infographic by Offerpop. The Windows Twitter client you'll love to use.

Tweet Lanes - Twitter/App.net. Plume for Twitter. Buffer is the best way to share on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and App.net from one place.

It work from news apps like Flipboard, Zite, Taptu, TweetDeck, Evernote, Pocket, Instapaper, Pulse, Feedly, UberSocial, Plume, Seesmic, Google Currents and other Google Reader app. You also get Twitter analytics, Facebook analytics & LinkedIn stats. When you find something to share, simply add it to your Buffer queue. Buffer will schedule tweets to Twitter, Facebook posts or LinkedIn updates spaced out over the day. You will get the best results by sharing on Facebook and Twitter for Android. When you read an article, use Android's Share menu and choose "Add to Buffer" to post to Facebook and Twitter for Android.

With Buffer you will get Twitter analytics through sharing. . - Flipboard: Any article you read in Flipboard can be added to your Buffer via the share menu in the top right. - Pulse News: Browse through top feeds in Pulse News and share efficiently by adding to your Buffer. Yes. New Tweets per second record, and how! Recently, something remarkable happened on Twitter: On Saturday, August 3 in Japan, people watched an airing of Castle in the Sky, and at one moment they took to Twitter so much that we hit a one-second peak of 143,199 Tweets per second.

(August 2 at 7:21:50 PDT; August 3 at 11:21:50 JST) To give you some context of how that compares to typical numbers, we normally take in more than 500 million Tweets a day which means about 5,700 Tweets a second, on average. This particular spike was around 25 times greater than our steady state. Tweedle for Twitter. True Beginner's Guide to Twitter: Basic Twitter Functions. Today’s post, the first of four, is a collaborative effort by me (@sarahjoaustin) and Linden (@xgravity23).

In this post, you’ll learn the basic functions of Twitter. Twitter Ad. Tweety.