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Lots of people like to add things like ♥✩♬♡►♪☺♫ to their tweets for fun, but did you know adding symbols can make your tweets shorter and easier to read too? Or that there are over 109,000 symbols available? Or that the Wall Street Journal uses symbols to add bar charts to its tweets? Of course, [...]
So you want a job in social media, do you? Realize it’s not always about experience. Attitude sometimes has a lot to do with getting hired in a social media job. Your future employer will Google you, and top social networks you are on will appear. So be on all the big ones, and be [...]
Don’t worry, we’ve all made mistakes. And Twitter can be tough to learn! But some things are easier to excuse than others. You have to make an effort. One of the easiest ways to learn Twitter is to follow good people and ask them questions. Or read blogs with lots of Twitter tips (like this [...]
Two great Twitter heavyweights had a detailed conversation over Twitter a few hours ago about the purpose of Twitter, and where automation fits in. The way Scott Stratten (@Unmarketing) sees Twitter is for real-time conversation: However, for Michael Gray (@GrayWolf), Twitter can be more efficient: By carrying on a live conversation, both showed they valued Twitter as [...]
In this week’s headlines we saw thousands of hijacked Twitter users have their passwords reset again. (Of course, we also learned that Facebook fights 600,000 compromised logins every day!) This was the week Twitter began testing an expandable timeline, the first user reached 15 million followers (@LadyGaga), and a new tool was released to show you [...]
“If Facebook and Twitter had a baby, they’d call it Google+.” ~ Olaf Wempe The important thing about Google Plus is to make it work for you. This is even more true nowadays with so many social networks vying for our attention. You don’t want to miss out completely, but you don’t want to add one [...]
There are useful infographics…and then there are these infographics: All of Social Media Explained in One Diagram The Four Stages of “Getting” Twitter Profile of a Twitter User How Do You Know When You Should Delete A Tweet? What If Social Media Sites Were Your Neighbors? Of course, you can click any infographic to enlarge [...]
Imagine you were alive hundreds of years ago, and wanted to meet the world’s greatest thinkers and hear their thoughts. If you were independently wealthy, you could devote your life to traveling the world and finding those wise men and women, talking to them and listening to them. But it would’ve taken you your whole [...]
We learned some amazing new things about Twitter this week (details at “9 Stunning New Facts…”) and there’s a great infographic of them for you in just a moment. But first, check out some of the great Twitter tips and tools posts from this week: Three Movements Redefining Twitter—And The World 5 Great Things Twitter [...]
Engagement can be quite a trick on Twitter. Do it right, and you gain followers. Do it wrong, and even people who already follow you will unfollow you. I’ve been on Twitter for years, and I’ve learned that there is a hidden trick to engagement that most people don’t think of. It’s really, really simple, [...]