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16 Ways Businesses Are Using Twitter Vine

16 Ways Businesses Are Using Twitter Vine
Are you wondering how the new Twitter Vine (think ultra short videos) could work for your business? Vine is a new mobile app that allows you to capture life from your mobile device in short, six-second looping videos. You can share these short videos with your Twitter followers and Facebook friends. Think of it as Instagram, except with videos instead of pictures. In today’s post, I’ll show you some creative uses of Vine for business. Editor’s note: You can click on any video to pause it. #1: Engage Your Followers in Conversation Start a conversation with your followers using a Vine video. Simon & Schuster does this by not just asking what followers will be reading this weekend—they give them visual cues on what they could be reading. It could spark any reader to go to their local bookstore or order a new title online. It’s a long weekend! #2: Highlight Your Brand Advocates What’s even better than advertising one of your products on a Vine video? #3: Display Your Work for a Client 1. That’s it!

Facebook Will Launch Content-Specific News Feeds, Bigger Photos And Ads On Thursday At a big press event on Thursday, Facebook plans to launch new ways to filter the news feed. These include a Photos feed of Facebook and Instagram photos, as well as a revamped Music feed of what friends are listening to, concerts, and new albums, according to multiple sources both within and close to Facebook. Larger images and image-based ads in the web and mobile feeds are coming too. [Update 3/7/2013: Facebook just held its press event and my sources were right. Why is Facebook adding new streams? Facebook has neglected the news feed, which has functioned largely the same since it launched on the web in 2006, and on iPhone in 2009. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a Facebook employee, a member of the social ads industry, and several developers concurred that multiple feeds and larger images in posts by users, Pages, and ads are what’s in store for Thursday. Evidence Of What’s Cooking Buried Feeds Feeds That Don’t Exist But Should Zuck Said The Feed Will Get A Richer Design

This is How to Use Twitter as a Curation Tool Twitter bookmarks way outnumber all the other bookmarks I have in my Chrome browser. Whenever I come across a video, a guide, a tutorial, a graphic, or a well written article on Twitter I automatically add it to this list of bookmarks and from time to time I refer to these bookmarks to select for the content I want to share with you here as is the case with the awesome graphic below. I am also working on a term paper for my MA Ed here in the Mount University. This paper is about the use of twitter as a professional development tool for teachers and which I will share with you in PDF format once it is submitted . Today I am sharing with you this great graphic from Langwitches. check it out below and share with use what you think of it.Enjoy

Community Manager, Social Media Manager y ahora, Chief Digital Officer Cuando todavía no parece haberse asentado el perfil más popular y común en cuanto al Social Media, el Community Manager, ya comenzamos a escuchar hablar de un nuevo perfil profesional que cada vez tiene más presencia en grandes empresas y que demuestra sin duda el valor y la importancia que tiene el entorno de internet y lo digital en general en las estrategias de negocio, comerciales, de comunicación y de marketing empresariales. Hablamos del CDO, el Chief Digital Officer, un puesto de alto ejecutivo que para resumir, se responsabiliza de todo lo relacionado con lo digital. El CDO no formaría parte del organigarma del Departamento de Social Media Marketing per se, sino que estaría por encima de él, ya que aglutinaría todo lo departamental y relativo a las TIC, lo digital, etc. Dicho de otro modo, no resta importancia ni modifica las labores del Social Media Manager o Communtiy Manager, sino que aporta integración y organización de todo lo digital a la empresa en conjunto.

Пользователи "Яндекс.Денег" могут переводить деньги через Twitter © Коллаж РИА Новости МОСКВА, 5 мар — РИА Новости, Дмитрий Филонов. Сотрудники электронной платежной системы "Яндекс.Деньги" запустили экспериментальный проект Twym, который позволяет переводить деньги от одного пользователя другому при помощи сообщения в сервисе микроблогов Twitter, говорится в сообщении компании. Для обмена деньгами с помощью Twitter-сообщений у получателя и отправителя должны быть счета в "Яндексах.Деньгах", которые при помощи Twym необходимо связать с соответствующими Twitter-аккаунтами. Для перевода средств нужно отправить сообщение, содержащее имя получателя в Twitter, сумму и хештег #twym. В дальнейшем деньги с кошелька можно вывести на банковскую карту или получить наличными. "Мы хотели сделать Twym на тех же условиях, что и внешние разработчики.

Crece el número de marcas que abordan el servicio al cliente en Twitter Simply Measured ha calculado un tiempo promedio de respuesta de 5,1 horas, con sólo 1 de cada 5 servicios de atención al cliente con tiempos de respuesta de aproximadamente 2 horas. Revisando las 10 primeras marcas por interacción con sus clientes (menciones con un servicio de atención al cliente respondiendo durante el periodo de tres meses), Microsoft (nº 5 con 0,7 horas), American Express (nº 3 con 1,3 horas) y UPS (nº 7 con 1,5), fueron las más rápidas a la hora de contestar. El servicio BlackBerryHelp, que vio 51,400 menciones en ese período de análisis de tres meses, fue el más lento, con un promedio de tiempo de respuesta de 19,7 horas, significativamente más alto que su tiempo promedio de 12,7 horas en el estudio anterior.

How To Write Tweets Longer Than 140 Characters Ever had a bit more to say but hit the 140 character limit on Twitter? Spent a few minutes trimming your tweet down to acceptable levels? Me too. How Tall Tweets Works Tall Tweets is a simple tool that turns your long tweet into an image. There is another option to ‘Tweet As Text’ where the service will chop up your lengthy text and then tweet it out piece-by-piece. The only problems I see are that @mentions don’t work (obviously) in the ‘tall tweet’ because it’s an image. What Tall Tweets Look Like Below is a tweet that contains the full text of this post you just read! Social Media Management Tool: A Review of Sprout Social in 2013 Digital marketers harness the power of brands and local businesses by giving a “voice” to their online presence through the avenue of social media. By doing so, they provide insight into the company philosophy, deliver direct feedback to consumers and create an online conversation that can result in direct engagement and ROI. However, questions still remain. With the emergence of social media… How are marketers measuring influence? There are countless tools available for those looking to dive into marketing their business, but how can YOU decipher which ones are truly worth the time invested? Sprout Social Wings and Fly Sprout Social is an integral social media management tool that combines the power of Analytics – reports combine engagement, impressions, shares and the demographics of your fans, followers and influencers. Using Sprout Social – “Intuitive” is My Middle Name After a few minutes, you’ll be able to see, in real-time, the influence of your social media properties.

Great Twittorials for Teachers 11inShare Following the post I published a couple of days ago entitled 10 Video Tutorials on The Use of Twitter in Education, Lieberman contacted me and suggested more resources on Twitter to share with you. I checked the Twitter Learning centre from Cyberwise as she recommended and I found out some really great resources on the use of Twitter in education. I cant believe I missed out on them , they are just amazing. Check out this list for more articles on the use Twitter in Education You might also like: A Great New Twitter Guide for Teachers 10 Powerful Twitter Tools for Teachers Professional ... Using Twitter for Teachers' Professional Development The Best Twitter Tools and Tips Teachers should Know about Linkwithin @import url( Custom Search About Me I am Med Kharbach. Google+ Followers Subscribe To Posts Comments Visit Med's profile on Pinterest.

Now showing: Older Tweets in search results Yesterday, we updated our Android, iOS and mobile web apps to make it easier for you to find relevant content when you’re on the go. We also started to roll out an additional update on our mobile apps as well as on twitter.com: you’ll now be able to find older Tweets using search. To see for yourself, try searching for [Manchester United Southampton] or [#SpotTheShuttle].

Twitter Psychology Psychological research on Twitter reveals who tweets, how much, what they talk about and why. There are now 190 million Twitter users around the world producing 65 million tweets each day. 19% of US internet users now say they use Twitter or a similar service to share updates about themselves—double the figure from the previous year (Pew, 2009). So who tweets? Since Twitter didn’t exist until 2006, psychologists have had little chance to explore it, but some of the early research suggests a social network unlike those that came before. Before we get onto the research, though, here’s a quick intro for Twitter newbies: What is Twitter? Twitter is a cross between a social network and a blog. The video above shows you what it looks like on a mobile phone. 1. Because messages are short and can be broadcast quickly and easily, Twitter can feel to its users like a fast-paced conversation (Boyd et al., 2010). But Twitter doesn’t always feel like a conversation as people use it in different ways.

Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics Connect with Faceook, sign in for free, and get unique, personalized information anad analysis on your social data-computed by Wolfram|Alpha Clustering of your friends What are the groups of friends that make up your network? How do these groups relate to each other? Where in the world are your friends? Where do your friends live? Your network's global reach Who lives farthest from you? How popular are your friends? How many friends do your friends have? What do you talk about on Facebook? The bigger the word, the more often it's used in your conversations. When do you use Facebook? When are you most active? Where are your friends at in life? Do your friends' ages reflect what kinds of relationships they're in? Explore the structure of your friend network How do your friends connect you to your other friends? Who plays the special roles in your network? How are your friends tied together? Your most popular photos What is your most liked photo? Get a new perspective on your friends

Twitter: 7 Highly Effective Habits New research on half-a-million tweets over 15 months reveals the factors which increase follower-count. If you want more Twitter followers, new research provides some easy pointers to the right type of tweeting. This is the first study to examine what factors are associated with an increased follower-count on Twitter over an extended period of time. Hutto et al. (2013) studied 507 Twitter users over 15 months and half-a-million tweets (PDF). Some of these are just handy reminders of good Twitter practice, but you may find the odd surprise—see what you think. 1. If you’re quite a negative Tweeter, then it could be time to change, if you care about getting more followers. It seems that negative or sarcastic tweets are not endearing. 2. This one is so important for gaining new followers. Informers: 20% share information and reply to other users.Meformers: 80% mostly send out information about themselves. 3. However one easy way you can boost social trust is by completing your user profile. 4.

Adding What You're Doing to Status Updates By Roddy Lindsay and Raylene Yung Starting this week, people can express what they’re watching, reading, listening to, eating, drinking or how they’re feeling in status updates. For example, if you share that you’re watching a movie like Jurassic Park, your post will contain the movie icon and a link to the movie’s page. Jurassic Park will be added to the Movies section on your timeline. These updates, and the stories added to your timeline, respect the privacy settings you choose for your post. We’ll continue rolling this out to people in the U.S. in the coming weeks.

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