2009 was, without doubt, the year of Twitter. Whether it was the massive hacker attacks that created a massive outage and reminded us of how it has now become an important part of our lives, the interest in both Fortune 500 companies as well as small businesses to utilize it as part of their social media marketing strategy, or the phenomenal growth in membership, tweets are now part of our mainstream culture and are the default real-time search results for the likes of Google, Bing, and Yahoo. I expect Twitter to continue to transform itself into a more useful platform for …
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This is a continuation of my previous post, where I wrote about 7 useful tips for those getting started on Twitter. Assuming that you have just signed up on Twitter and don’t know where to go from here, instead of following everyone from your email address book that is already on Twitter by selecting “Find People” from the top of Twitter, begin your Twitter experience by following Lists before you follow People. The rationale is simple: Twitter gets a bad rap because of the “babble” that a lot of people are said to be tweeting. That is why you should …
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One of the questions I get asked by relative newbies to Twitter is how to go about finding relevant people to follow. The problem that a lot of Twitter newbies have is that they either 1) upload their entire email address book and follow everyone and/or 2) they start following some of Twitter’s Suggested Users. This has the tendency to fill the Timeline that one sees with LOTS of Tweets that may be irrelevant, or finding yourself following a few hundred people that may not be active Tweeters. Right off the bat your Follower/Following Ratio is horrible, the inactive Twitter …
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Twitter is slowly rolling out their promised Twitter lists to all of their users now. Apparently, a great number of users just started receiving access to this new functionality yesterday. If you now have access to it, you will notice it when you log into Twitter by the prominent text bar above your timeline with the red “New!” line. Although Twitter has slowly been rolling out changes like the Twitter one-click spammer reporting or small changes in the user interface of deleting Direct Messages (it now says “Reply” or “Delete” instead of just an icon) or replying to tweets (it …
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