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10 Twitter Best Practices for Brands. Michael Brito is a social media strategist and community builder at Intel.

You can catch him writing in his social media blog, or at all hours of the day/night. These are his thoughts and opinions and do not reflect that of his employer. Having a Twitter profile doesn’t mean you’re a social media master, but it is a great tool for conversations, building community and finding the latest industry news. That's why Hollywood is on Twitter, athletes are on Twitter, your competitors are on Twitter, and hopefully you are on Twitter too. But for brands, there's an art to using Twitter, and the most successful at it follow an unwritten set of rules. Twitter's Most Influential Users [INFOGRAPHIC] On March 21, 2006, Twitter's founders published their first tweets.

If you look at that moment as a big bang of influence in the ever-expanding Twittersphere, how does Twitter's cosmos look today? 7 Surprising Statistics About Twitter in America. Ah Twitter, we thought we knew you. A comprehensive survey (1,753 respondents) released today by Edison Research (a division of Arbitron), paints a fascinating picture of Twitter and its role in America's social media ecosystem. The full 49-page study is full of interesting graphs and data morsels, but these are the 7 findings that I didn't anticipate: 1. Twitter is Ubiquitous Like Terrell Owens, Carrie Underwood, and Coke Zero, Twitter is almost universally on the radar of Americans. 87% of respondents had heard of Twitter, compared to 88% who had heard of Facebook.

(Note that the survey population was 12 and up, including a representative portion of seniors). 2. 3. 49% of monthly Twitter users follow brands or companies, compared to just 16% of social network users overall. 4. I maintain that as Facebook continues to tie together the real-time Web with the open graph, Twitter usage will inexorably shift from person to person connectivity, to customer to company connectivity. 5.

How to Use Twitter in Your Web 2.0 Marketing Strategy. "Our marketing budget was just cut!

" These are words that every marketing person hates to hear. Unfortunately, in these current economic conditions, these words are being heard in nearly every company around the world. Even information security vendors-whose job it is to protect against computer threats that can bring companies to their knees-are not immune to budget cuts. Too often, marketing is viewed strictly as an expense, instead of as an investment in positioning, promoting and educating customers. 5 Mistakes to Never Make on Twitter : Technology : Idea Hub. HOW TO: Build Your Personal Brand on Twitter. Dan Schawbel is the bestselling author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.

Follow him on Twitter @DanSchawbel. Today, Twitter has roughly 6 million users and is projected to grow to 18.1 million users by 2010. With all those people, the chances for networking are endless and connecting with new people can lead to career opportunities, so it is essential that your personal brand exists on the service. Last month we showed you a step-by-step process for building your personal brand on Facebook, and today we’re going to show you how to do the same thing on Twitter. By leveraging the Twitter platform to build your brand you can showcase yourself to a huge and growing audience. 1. Prime domain names, especially those ending in “.com,” have long been desirable, hard to find and extremely expensive. Dell Outlet (DellOutlet) Twit Robot : Twitter Marketing Tool - RSS to twitter marketing using twitter Post RSS to twitter. Sheduled Posting of custom messages to twitter. Future tweets and later tweet posting. twitter marketing and brand marketing using twitter feed your blog...

101 for Business — A Special Guide. How to Optimise your Twitter Strategy. 40 of the Best Twitter Brands and the People Behind Them. We all know brands are using Twitter — whether or not you want them around.

Some of them don't quite get the medium and just tweet self-serving links or marketing speak, but you won't find any of those brands here. We've handpicked 40 of the best brands experimenting with the micro-blogging platform, and asked them a few short questions about how they're using Twitter. If some of their responses seem short, well that's because they are. I asked each brand correspondent to answer our queries in 140 characters or less. Most of them got the point, a few rambled on a bit too long, and only asked me if "u" was acceptable in lieu of "you.

" Smart brands use Twitter in meaningful ways, and most of them use their brand name as a way to make sure customers can find and recognize them. And if you're a brand that didn't make our list, let us know why your tweets deserve consideration in the comments. Cars Who cares what a car company has to say in 140 characters or less, right? Chevrolet. 16 Examples of Huge Brands Using Twitter for Business. Twitter for Business FAQ. Law: Twitter Hack Opens Pandora's Box of Security Issues. Is password protection an inherently flawed security model?

CoTweet™ - How business does Twitter. 100 Creative Twitter Backgrounds Featuring Illustration. If you’ve ever created a Twitter account and customized it with some text, you would have discovered that the amount of text that you can display to describe yourself is very limited.

This is where designing, creating, and publishing a creative Twitter background and using it as your billboard comes into place. Many designers and creatives utilize actual illustrations and images that will attract the viewers’ attention. By capturing a reader’s imagination in the process, illustrative backgrounds will most likely remain within their memory for a longer period of time. Here are 100 creative Twitter backgrounds that feature illustration, that should inspire your own Twitter designs. Farrhad Elite Styles Emily Chen Lee Maplesden Anousone Vonster Scott Clark Rogie King James Ridlo Twestival Jozi Krftd Jwhedon. How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live. Nine Twitter tips for business. Twitter is so red-hot right now that it’s united Shaq and Oprah.

It’s also so good at attracting buzzwords that I can’t decide whether to call it a microblogging service or a social-networking Web site. But it doesn’t really matter what you call it, or whether you prefer to follow Ashton Kutcher or Britney Spears. What matters is that users are taking to Twitter in massive numbers. And your business should be there, too. Does this mean that plumbers need to start posting messages about what they had for breakfast in order to drum up sink-repair orders from desperate Internet hipsters? 1. If you’ve got a blog that’s connected to your business, you can use a service such as TwitterFeed to directly channel your new blog posts into Twitter posts. 2. Your business’s Twitter account should talk like a person—even if it’s a collective “person” representing your company or brand.

Some companies prefer to disclose members of their team when they’re tweeting from the company account. 3.