How would you react if your account was hacked? Form a plan now so if something does happen you know what and how to shut down and how to get the correct information out ASAP. While usually correcting wrong information in a prior tweet rather than deleting it is standard practice, the AP was correct [...]
Every year, TIME recognizes those who exemplify the very best wit and wisdom Twitter has to offer. Here are the 140 feeds that inspire us to laugh, learn or shake our heads in wonderment.” Read full article @ TIME.com »»» AD: WORDPRENEUR RELOADED – Some of the best Wordpreneur blog posts and articles, a full-sized [...]
[T]he first reason to use Twitter is to build a newswire for yourself and your audience, which is way more relevant now that Google Reader is going away… The second is for making an initial contact with a stranger before moving that conversation to email, and then moving that conversation offline. Twitter is the only [...]
When choosing a hashtag, it’s important to make sure that your hashtag is easy for users to remember. With thousands of hashtags roaming the social media universe, the last thing a business wants to do is create a hashtag that is hard to spell or pronounce. Users will end up spelling it wrong and this [...]
My blog content reinforced what I was doing on Twitter, and what I was doing on Twitter reinforced the blog. I created a rather virtuous circle that I believe boosted the follower count. But most important, the Best Tweets round-up wasn’t about myself or my own content. It was about drawing attention to other excellent work, which [...]
Are you wondering how consumers are using social media? … Twitter continued to draw new users by impressive numbers. 23% of consumers surveyed joined Twitter six months before, 30% joined less than a year before and another 25% joined less than two years before. The study also showed that engagement levels among Twitter users rose from [...]
Ribbon, a payments service… unveiled a tool that lets sellers create a special link to a one-page checkout that can be copy and pasted directly into the Twitter news feed. Any Twitter user interested in purchasing the item can preview a description and video of it in the tweet and then click on the link [...]
I have a serious love affair with Buffer. It allows you to automate and schedule your Tweets and Facebook messages. The main benefit of Buffer is how it spreads out your messages. Now, be warned, automated marketing can be dangerous. However, if you approach it properly — as a way to keep your sanity during [...]
The number of active users on the microblogging service grew 40% from the second quarter to the fourth quarter of 2012 — equal to 288 million monthly active users, according to Global Web Index, a syndicated market-research service on web behavior and social media. (The index assessed 31 markets, and defines ‘active’ as those who [...]
I believe that Twitter started making sense — and becoming valuable to me — when I wrapped my head around the fact that Twitter is just another place to have a conversation that you would anywhere else on earth. It’s just an unfamiliar place, at least in the beginning, and that’s the problem for most [...]
Are you looking for tools to help better manage your Twitter presence? Managing your Twitter presence along with your other online networks can be difficult if you have limited resources. In this article, you’ll discover 3 tools to make your basic Twitter marketing tasks easier.” Read full article @ Social Media Examiner »»» AD: WORDPRENEUR [...]
The real reason why I get responses to things I say on Twitter is that the service forced me to introduce brevity into my arsenal. Yes, the fantastic world of keeping things short and compact, allowing people to let it run through their brain quickly and fire out a response if they like. Some people [...]
Twitter has officially given its thumbs-up to publishers who want to use their Twitter background as advertising space. AdAge reports that Twitter has confirmed that it doesn’t go against their rules if you want to put up ads behind your tweets.” Read full article @ AllTwitter »»» AD: WORDPRENEUR RELOADED – Some of the best [...]
Here is this week’s Friday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Amazon Changed Reading. Now It Could Change Writing (Fast Company) — “Amazon introduced a subscription book format at a press conference in Los Angeles Thursday. These books, called ‘Kindle [...]
Here is this week’s Tuesday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Advice for Authors: Create A Twitter Profile that Sells (Paula Margulies Communications) — “If you’re an author hoping to use Twitter to sell books, then how you describe yourself [...]
Here is this week’s Tuesday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! A tacky mess: the masses vs. great design (Seth Godin’s Blog) — “Left to its own devices, the mob will augment, accessorize, spam, degrade and noisify whatever they have [...]
Here is this week’s Friday installment of the Wordpreneur Reader, with links to articles elsewhere I found informative and useful. Enjoy, go forth and learn, Grasshopper! Beyond Bricks and Clicks: How to Create Hybrid Sources of Revenue (Book Business) — “Typically, when one responds, ‘I’m an author,’ to the question, ‘What do you do for [...]
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