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Twitter Tools and Apps to Manage Your Time Better | Social Intelligence. It occurred to me that there is a “lifespan” of a Tweeter…one where you distinctly go through the stages of baby, toddler, adolescent and adult. Once you have spent a couple of months getting active on Twitter, you start to focus on different things and get over the hurdle of “working it all out” and pass on to “Right, so how I can I do this better?” If you started your Twitter life on the actual www.twitter.com platform – you will have quickly learnt that it can become a major time sapping exercise. I know, because I have been tweeting since December 2008! However, there are a bundle of tools and resources which will assist you to maintain and more importantly sustain your Twitter activity. I encourage you to slowly explore some of these suggested tools as Twitter.com is rather clunky and cumbersome and does not really allow for an easy tweeting experience! Dashboards (Much Like Having a Twitter Cockpit on Your PC, Laptop, Tablet or Mobile Phone) ABOUT THE AUTHOR, Kirsty Wilson.

Twitter Opens Advertising to All U.S. Users: Here's How it Works. Whether pop-culture, local or global news, work, or the brands I use and wear, Twitter is a powerful social networking tool and search engine in which I can typically find the latest information about virtually any topic. This also includes updates from the companies and businesses I care about. Businesses, like HubSpot, are able to market on Twitter to engage users and followers, increase brand awareness, boost conversions, and more (we’ll discuss the “more” shortly). Twitter makes it easy to distribute content. And, there are over 326 million average monthly Twitter users globally for you to share that content with. The thought of reaching hundreds of millions of leads through a free social media platform sounds intriguing, right? But how do you actually ensure you’re generating fantastic content those people will want to interact with?

Let’s get started. What is a Twitter marketing strategy? So, you might be wondering what makes Twitter unique. What makes Twitter unique? … is free to use. Generating Leads on Twitter Just Got Easier: Get Started With Lead Gen Cards. A few months ago, we told you that Twitter was testing out Lead Generation Cards. The bad news was that it wasn't rolled out to everyone ... until now!

Yesterday, Twitter opened up its Lead Generation Cards to everyone. You get a Twitter Lead Generation Card! And YOU get a Twitter Lead Generation Card! We wrote about the news in great detail back in May, but let's go over it again real quick for those who missed it the first time. What Are Twitter Lead Generation Cards?

Well first, what are Twitter Cards? The Lead Generation Card is a way to use Twitter Cards to generate leads directly within a tweet. Why Is This Cool? Well, because it makes generating leads on Twitter easier. Its offer? How Do You Set Up Twitter Lead Generation Cards? If you'd like an in-depth, step-by-step tutorial, we've already written one out for you -- you can access it here. Then you're done! Are you excited for Twitter Lead Generation Cards? Image credit: Rosaura Ochoa. New Twitter Profile. 7 Epic Uses of Twitter's New Embeddable Tweets Feature.

The most important new Twitter feature for marketers isn't brand pages. Yes, you read that first sentence correctly. As part of its redesign announcement last week, Twitter revealed brand pages as well as a host of other features. Yes, brand pages are cool, but in reality, they don't offer much more value for a business over personal profiles aside from a little bit more control. Embeddable tweets are the game changer in this most recent round of Twitter improvements for marketers. How to Embed a Tweet Using The New Twitter Web Design Lets get right to it.

Step 1: Sign into Twitter.com, and select a tweet you would like to embed. Step 2: Once the tweet is open, click on the "Details" link. Step 3: Click the "Embed this Tweet" link. Step 4: Select alignment, and then copy the HTML code. Step 5: Paste the HTML into your website or blog editor and POOF! The Final Product: 7 Epic Uses of Twitter's New Embeddable Tweets Feature 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

8 Creative Ways to Use Embeddable Tweets. What if your Twitter conversations could expand to include more people from your online community? Now you can thanks to embedded tweets , a new feature from Twitter. Sharing Tweets Outside of Twitter Embedded tweets allow you to . You can use this feature to . But more than that, the embedded tweets have interactive features. From an embedded tweet, a visitor to your website or a blog post reader can: and join the conversation. with their Twitter community using retweet. of the tweet author. by clicking the tweet date. An embedded tweet allows people to interact from your blog or website.

All of this happens right on your website! Embedded Tweet Benefits Before embedded tweets, a screen capture was the only way you could share a single tweet on your blog. Embedded tweets stand out on the page because they include graphic elements, so they . If you embed a reply, Twitter posts not only the reply, but also the original tweet, giving you a conversation view. Create an Embedded Tweet To : 5 Twitter Changes and How to Make the Most of Them. Are you wondering how Twitter’s changes will impact your use of its network? Recently, Twitter got a complete revamp that changed things drastically. Interestingly, it didn’t pump the social network with more and more features. Ryan Sarver, Twitter’s head of API, explained it crisply: “In a world where Facebook and Google are competing on features, Twitter wants to focus on being simple.” This article will review all the changes, from user interface changes to Twitter brand pages, what the new changes mean and how you can best use them. #1: Easier and More Streamlined Navigation The first thing you’ll notice with the new Twitter is that navigating has become a lot easier and more streamlined.

With just one click on any update, you can now get all the information you need from a tweet. It will show you the number of retweets, replies and favorites, without going anywhere else. This means you can jump into the conversation right from there. You can see all the information you need right here. 7 Twitter Strategies for Growing a Great Following. You’re likely on Twitter. But are you connecting with the right people? Do you want to build a quality Twitter following? If so, keep reading. In this post we will explore sometimes obvious, yet seldom implemented, techniques of building a following on Twitter as well as few methodologies you may have not considered but should find quite useful. The inspiration for this post came from the book Twitter Power by Joel Comm.

Let’s get started. #1: Look for people you already know This one is a no-brainer but it often goes unexecuted. You can tell Twitter to cull the list of contacts from your existing accounts on Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and LinkedIn. This method is limited to web-based email and unfortunately there is no simple way to search your Outlook contacts for Twitterers. But there is a way around that: Open a free web-based email account such as Gmail or Yahoo! Done! There are additional implications, of course. #2: Twijazzle your blog So how do you Twijazzle your blog? Amen, brother Joel. How? 14 Twitter Mistakes That May Be Hindering Your Results | Inbound Marketing Geek. Let me guess.

You visit Twitter every now and then. You follow some tweeps. You share some pretty nice stuff with them. You even share some of their posts. People say you’re doing it right but you’re just not getting any results.No one’s following you back.No one’s re-tweeting your posts and your brand is failing like the Twitter whale. And you can’t help wondering… Do you need to be patient and spend more time on Twitter? Do you need to tweet more often? Or could it be possible that you’ve missed the most important aspects of reaching your goals on Twitter? Well, I’ve collected 14 of the most common Twitter mistakes. 1.

People often complain that they’re not getting any results, but when you ask them what kind of results they want to get – they can’t really tell you. We use Twitter for different reasons. How you use it depend upon your end goals. Before jumping on to Twitter, write down a list of your goals. 2. Look for influencers in your niche. 3. I admit, I tweet a lot. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. The importance of retweeting (and how to do it like a pro) 81.1K Flares Twitter 1.9K Facebook 92 Google+ 43 StumbleUpon 79K Pin It Share 10 10 LinkedIn 74 inShare74 Email -- Email to a friend Buffer 21 81.1K Flares × As more and more people and businesses are joining Twitter, becoming a member of this rapidly growing social media site is becoming evermore vital for consumers and businesses to function effectively in the marketplace.

Put simply: if you fail to adapt to the rapidly changing environment and don’t join Twitter, you are missing out on loads of opportunities and will soon be lagging behind your competition. But simply joining Twitter is not enough. As any user of Twitter will tell you, retweeting is central to Twitter. In fact, it’s one of Twitters most useful tools.

It allows users to share their best links, most interesting tweets, and other exciting things from people they are following. Whether you’re an experienced Twitter user wanting to learn new tips or just a beginner aspiring to become a Twitter pro, then carry on reading. 7 Twitter Habits To Adopt In 2012 To Double Your Followers. 1.6K Flares Filament.io 1.6K Flares × So when it comes to Twitter, I recently read a fantastic post from Lance Ulanoff, editor of Mashable about the topic. In his post he head one resolution that went like this: I want to double my Twitter audience in 2012 He said that he didn’t quite know how to achieve this. We aren’t talking about mindlessly increasing a number here. Much more, I mean focusing on enlarging your network.

So here are 6 easy to implement habits for Lance and anyone else, who wants to expand his Twitter following and make it work more effectively. 1.) One of the most difficult, yet most important things to do is to Tweet frequently and regularly. Tweet frequently, as a pointer 5-10 great content Tweets per day. A great example of this is Jay Gould, founder of Foundville. Here are his Twittercounter results, since he started to do this, so you can see for yourself: A great way to make this most convenient to keep your Tweets coming out steadily is to schedule a few Tweets. 2.)

Enhanced profile pages. 10+ Top SEO Twitter Tips for Better Search Ranking. SEO Twitter Tips Amongst its other benefits, Twitter could technically be a natural complement to your site and an effective way to gain some additional spots on organic search engine results pages (SERPs), helping your website and its content get noticed. So how can you best leverage your Twitter account for search? Here are 5 tips to help you get started: 1. Use Your Real Name Wisely: Your Twitter “real name” is perhaps the most important thing you can set on your Twitter profile.

This means you need to make sure your real name is both relevant to you, a keyword people are likely to search for, and something that will make people want to click. Here, it’s very essential to note that your Twitter “real name” doesn’t have to be your actual name, unlike with Facebook. 2. As in the case with your real name, your Twitter username is crucial content that will be displayed in the title of your Twitter profile page and, in some cases, your individual tweet pages. 3. 4. How does this work? 5. Twitter Introduces Lead Generation 'Cards' to Collect Leads From Tweets. Hold on to your hats, marketers, because we’ve got some exciting news that’s going to transform the way you use Twitter Ads. A little background first: back in June, Twitter rolled out Twitter Cards, their name for the multimedia you sometimes see in expanded tweets on Twitter.com, Android, and iOS applications. Fast forward to today: Twitter released the Lead Generation Card, a new type of Twitter Card that will allow marketers to collect leads directly within the tweet.

Users don’t even have to fill out a form -- their information (Name, email, and username) is already pulled into the card. They literally just have to hit "Submit" on the Card's call-to-action. Here’s what it looks like, courtesy of the Twitter Advertising Blog: So cool, right? How to Create Twitter Lead Generation Cards Want to get set up a Lead Generation Card for one of your Promoted Tweets? 1) Set up a CRM end point integration. Twitter has a whole list of CRMs that will work with Lead Generation Cards.