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. What happens when you don’t claim your Twitter handle: 2. 1. 3. 4. 5. 6. Group applications: 99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications - Smashing Magazine. 99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications Advertisement If you haven’t heard of Twitter1 by now, you must be living under a rock! It is everywhere, and everyone is using it. To say that the rise of Twitter has been explosive would be an understatement. As a result of this growth, the number of Twitter apps and tools available has become extensive. So, in this post we have filtered them down to a respectable 99. Below, we present 99 Essential Twitter Tools and Applications, split into the following categories: Tools and Productivity Apps, Statistics and Analytics, Find New Twitter Friends Apps, Search Twitter Apps, Web-Based Mobile Apps, WordPress Twitter Plug-Ins, Adobe Air Twitter Apps and Firefox Twitter Extensions.
You may want to take a look at the following related posts: Tools and Productivity Apps Twittercal6 Twittercal is a service that connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar and lets you add events easily, directly from your Twitter account. Mr. Search Twitter Apps. 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business | chrisbrogan.com. We really can’t deny the fact that businesses are testing out Twitter as part of their steps into the social media landscape. You can say it’s a stupid application, that no business gets done there, but there are too many of us (including me) that can disagree and point out business value. I’m not going to address the naysayers much with this. Instead, I’m going to offer 50 thoughts for people looking to use Twitter for business.
And by “business,” I mean anything from a solo act to a huge enterprise customer. Your mileage may vary, and that’s okay. Further, you might have some really great ideas to add. Oh, and please feel free to reblog this wherever. 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business First Steps Build an account and immediate start using Twitter Search to listen for your name, your competitor’s names, words that relate to your space. Ideas About WHAT to Tweet Instead of answering the question, “What are you doing?” Some Sanity For You You don’t have to read every tweet. How to Optimise your Twitter Strategy. 6 Twitter Search Services Compared. Ari Herzog is an online media strategist for business and government. He is the author of AriWriter. With developers rushing like wild dogs to build and launch applications to make your Twitter experience more productive, how can you choose which is the best tool to use if you're running queries on your company name and competitor's product line, or references on small-town bakeries or Red Sox pitchers?
Thankfully, there is no shortage of search applications. But how different are their interfaces, how similar are their results, and what options do they offer? 1. Also known to oldtimers as Summize, Twitter Search is hosted on the official Twitter server—but is routinely considered inadequate by many for its less-than-stellar retrieval rate, at times as low as 50 percent! Results show the sender's avatar, a link to the original tweet, and a link to Twitter.com to reply (assuming you're logged in). If this is the official benchmark, what about its competition? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Graphin' Your Stats. Study: Twitter users are mobile, urban, and engaged online - Ars.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has finally discovered Twitter, and points out that its users are young, mobile, and new media savvy—surprise! These are Pew's latest findings, part of its first look at the Twitter phenomenon and online status updating as a whole. Though many of the findings aren't particularly shocking (especially to those of us who, well, use Twitter), Pew profiles the demographics of the average Twitter users and how they compare to the general Internet-using population.
Pew conducted its survey by doing phone interviews with 2,253 adults between November and December of 2008 and found that 11 percent of adults in the US who use the Internet claim to have used Twitter or a similar microblogging service. The trend seems to be picking up at a quicker pace, too; the firm notes that, just a few weeks earlier, only nine percent of Internet users said they did so, and in May, only six percent. Data source: Pew Internet & American Life Project.
CoTweet™ - How business does Twitter. 5 Terrific Twitter Research Tools. Twitter has a wealth of data - it's a global thought-stream on every topic imaginable. But how do we convert that raw data into insights, trends and actionable information? How can we find the signal in all that noise?
Fortunately, there are several tools out there that can help analyze Twitter data, understand user behavior, and graph it for analysis and presenting to others. Today, we've picked out five great tools to get you started. For more in-depth information about trend tracking on Twitter, take a look at last month's article, 15 Fascinating Ways to Track Twitter Trends. 1. TweetStats Trying to figure out how often you're actually tweeting? Ideal for: researching individual behavior on Twitter 2.
Trendrr is a new favorite among analysts looking to keep track of trends and compare information. Ideal for: tracking Twitter search, comparing information 3. Twitturly and Retweetist also do similar things. Ideal for: researching trends 4. 5. Ideal for: Individual user research. 10 Twitter Tools to Organize Your Tweeps. As Twitter surges toward an estimated 12 million registered users by year's end (though some new stats may disagree), some of us are starting to deal with what we recently dubbed "followholism.
" You've followed so many people, it's hard to keep up, and it's probably time to do a little housekeeping. But where do you begin? Twitter's own tools for managing followers are subpar. It's nearly impossible to figure out who among your followers are following you back, and the interface for paging through followers is clumsy and difficult to use. Find Out Who You're Following When I first joined Twitter, I started following people right out of the gate in order to get some utility out of the site — after all, the only way to join the conversation is to start following it. 1.
Find Your Friends Not all relationships on Twitter are equal. 4. Get Rid of Inactives According to a recent study, 80% of Twitter users have less than 10 total tweets. 7. Manage it All. Twitter. 25 Twitter Apps to Manage Multiple Accounts. It may seem like an impossible task to keep up with all the Twitter apps that have come to market as of late. Even though you have plenty of directories to help with the process, we noticed that it's still difficult to ascertain which apps support multiple accounts. As more and more people are using Twitter for personal and professional reasons, the demand for a Twitter client to match those multifaceted needs is rising.
Here are several options to help you tweet now or later from different accounts on your desktop, via the Web, and while on the run. We've also included a few browser add-ons and business-specific clients to help you find the right application to suit your Twittering needs. Desktop Nambu: A great single or mutli-column app for multiple Twitter, Identi.ca, and Laconi.ca account management. Seesmic Desktop: A viable threat to TweetDeck, Seesmic Desktop has no limitations on the number of accounts you can manage.
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