Lean in Memes – 10 Lean Startup Ideas Explained in Memes
February 20, 2012 
10 comments Tweet Buffer
Have you yet heard your startup should be Lean? I bet you did.
So with internet memes finally going completely viral and mainstream, thanks to 9gag, Reddit and co, we thought of doing a set of memes just for the Lean Startup.
Here are just a few of the most important concepts of lean startups, explained with the latest internet memes!
Enjoy:
@LeoWid 
Is Twitter Used More For Promotion, Or More For Information? [STUDY]
February 16, 2012 9 comments Tweet Buffer
This a guestpost from Amanda DiSilvestro, content writer at Business.com. More about Amanda at the bottom of the post.
If anyone follows me on Twitter they know that I tweet my own content. I do not tweet only my own content, but I tweet it. I like it. I wrote it. I want others to learn from it. So I tweet it. I see nothing wrong with promoting your personal or your company articles as long as you tweet your connections articles as well.
This helps increase the quality of your tweets; therefore making you a better person to show up on someone’s feed. It shows that you aren’t using Twitter just for a promotion tool. Right?
@LeoWid
HOW TO Auto-shorten Your Links For Better Buffer Analytics
February 15, 2012 3 comments Tweet Buffer
Here is just a quick update for you on some of the latest changes we have made to Buffer to make your life easier.
For a long time we have automatically shortened links when sharing from all of our browser extensions, as of today we have took shortening even further and links will now be shortened as you type in both the dashboard and browser extensions!
Of course, sometimes you don’t want links shortened – in this case just hit the toggle switch next to the post buttons, this will turn off auto-shortening until you toggle it back on again.
@LeoWid
15 Ways to Increase The Click Through Rate On Your Tweets
February 13, 2012 17 comments Tweet Buffer
This is a guestpost by Mitt Ray, an Inbound marketer and white paper writer. More about Mitt at the bottom of the post.
How do you get someone to click on your links on Twitter? This seems one of the most pressing questions I see coming up day in day out. And rightly so. Figuring out how to attract more people that like what you are posting is one of the most important aspects of being successful on Twitter.
Whilst a higher click through rate is certainly not the only thing to be good at on Twitter, it can be a great basis of success. So without further ado, here are 15 of the best tips out there to guarantee a higher click rate:
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Buffer acquires sharing plugin Digg Digg – The Complete Guide to Make The Most Of It
February 8, 2012 37 comments Tweet Buffer
Update: Mashable’s Sarah Kessler published an awesome post on Digg Digg.
Over 200 million Tweets are put out every day, together with over 4 billion items posted on Facebook.
One of the most important things for our work here at Buffer was always to help you share more efficiently and with higher impact on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere.
So as of today, I’m super excited to share that we have added Digg Digg as a new core product to help you be more awesome on Social Media. This is a big step towards changing how we share content on Social Media
Digg Digg is one of the most popular sharing plugins for WordPress blogs with over 300,000 downloads to date. It adds a nice floating bar to your blog, just like you can see on the left here. It also gives you lots of other options to add sharing buttons to your site.
@LeoWid
The Beginners Guide To Market on Twitter In A Genuine Way
February 7, 2012 10 comments Tweet Buffer
The following post is a guestpost from Alicia Cowan, a great Social Media thinker and blogger. More about her at the bottom of the post.
You’ve probably heard or even learnt that it’s not very effective to hard sell on Twitter. Constantly pitching your own products and services will get you nowhere.
So the only thing hard selling will get you is unfollowed, blocked or labelled a spammer. Ouch!
That’s all true – but we’re not using Twitter just for fun! We’re there to promote our business too.
So, how are we supposed to convert followers into buyers if selling doesn’t cut it? Other people seem to do ok – what’s the deal?
This has got to be the biggest issue facing small business Twitter users on a daily basis.
Many of my clients complain that they don’t know what to write when faced with the blank ‘What’s Happening?’ box. Stumped. Unsure of just how to get people interested in their stuff.
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10 Top Social Media Blogs You Should Be Following In 2012
February 6, 2012 21 comments Tweet Buffer
There was a great number of new Social Media and productivity blogs, that I only discovered very recently. And whilst there content is amazing, they all have one thing in common: using the Buffer button to make it super easy for you to share more efficiently.
So I thought, I would compile a list of them and make it easy to read their best posts right from here. All of them present the absolute Social Media thought leaders for me. And here is why they all deserve to be called so wholeheartedly:
@LeoWid
3 Quick Tips to Use Your Twitter Profile To Get More Business
February 2, 2012 7 comments Tweet Buffer
This is a guest post by Gregory Ciotti, a contributing Buffer Blog columnist. More about him at the bottom of the post.
With the rise of importance of having a brand (and personal) page on the two biggest social media platforms, I’ve always felt that much more attention was paid to high converting Facebook pages over Twitter accounts.
Of course, I can understand why, given that most new Twitter followers come from Twitter itself (getting retweeted & mentioned, etc.), and that Facebook pages allow for a landing page and lots of customization.
Even so, given the ease of creating an optimized Twitter profile, I thought it would be useful to cover 3 easy tips to setting up a Twitter profile that really converts.
Gregory Ciotti
The Complete Guide To The Brand New Buffer iPhone App
January 31, 2012 44 comments Tweet Buffer
Yes, it is finally here! The long awaited Buffer iPhone App is in the App store with the latest update as of this week.
It has certainly been the most awaited feature and there wasn’t one day, someone nudged us on Twitter or via email. And that’s awesome. Having you and others on board, who tell us what they would like to see next is what keeps us going.
With Buffer, we aim to give you a new and smarter way to share your Tweets and Facebook posts. You simply add an update to your Buffer and we post them for you at the optimal time, well spaced out over the day. And now you can do it from your iPhone.
The app is built by the amazing Andy Yates (you can give him a shout @Andy383). I hope it will help you to make sharing articles and ideas from on the go more productive and much easier. Read the full article
@LeoWid
21 Facts On How Questions Get Answered On Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC]
January 25, 2012 One comment Tweet Buffer
One of the things I love about being on Twitter is the fact that it is the most open platform I know. You can quickly ask anything to all your followers and in most cases get a reply faster than googling.
Twitter has developed its own hashtag, similar to a code for answering these questions. The hashtag used for whenever people ask general questions they need help with is #lazyweb. I am sure you have come across it before.
An example I have used myself a lot in the past is to ask for tools of all sorts that people use to be more efficient. Like this:
“What Twitter tools are you using to most efficiently handling multiple Twitter accounts? #Lazyweb #ToolsChat”
@LeoWid
