From the monthly archives:

March 2011

How To Recruit Top Talent Through Twitter & Social Media [Infographic]

March 31, 2011

Social Media graphic via MindFlash

Read the full article →

Retweet Glossary, Syntax and Punctuation

March 29, 2011

“RT” and “via” are the most common abbreviations used, and you can provide retweet attribution to the curator at the beginning or ending of a tweet with a wide variety of punctuation. A good reference to familiarize yourself with is Why Misunderstanding Retweets Can Get You Suspended, which includes information on how and why to credit multiple usernames. There [...]

Read the full article →

How Misunderstanding Retweets Can Get You Suspended From Twitter

March 28, 2011

There are two kind of retweets: editable retweets, and native retweets. Native retweets are what you get if you click “retweet” under a tweet on Twitter.com (or if you have your app set up to work that way). This post is about editable retweets, which used to be the only kind you could use on [...]

Read the full article →

Tips and benefits of being brief when retweeting

March 27, 2011

When there are too many usernames on a retweet to include them all easily, it can be tough to figure out what to do. The main tip is to use every method you can to make the tweet as brief as possible. What I do at @TweetSmarter is: Use a RT standard that is brief. [...]

Read the full article →

How should you credit retweets?

March 27, 2011

This has been fairly controversial. Rather than comment further, I suggest reading: How Misunderstanding Retweets Can Get You Suspended Retweet Glossary, Syntax and Punctuation Recently @TonyRobbins retweeted a tweet from us, using our text and exact short URL, to his nearly 2 million followers.  The problem was that he removed our username, yet still had [...]

Read the full article →

How valuable is a tweet from @TweetSmarter?

March 26, 2011

If you’d like us to tweet something that you’ve written, please read “Why we didn’t tweet your link” first, and tell me that you’ve read it if you contact me! While our most popular recent tweet got ~10,000 clicks (the first image posted via Twitter’s new photo service) 6,000 clicks or so per tweet is a [...]

Read the full article →

Should you be on LinkedIn? [infographic]

March 25, 2011

Via: Online MBA

Read the full article →

What’s worse than email spam? Bacon

March 24, 2011

Spam filters are working better than ever, but you might still be getting more unwanted than wanted email. Why? The rise of “bacon.” Stats from unsubscribe.com

Read the full article →

How am I supposed to use Twitter?

March 24, 2011

Sometimes I get questions or criticisms. I’ve learned that a good way to be sure I’m understanding is to ask the question “How am I supposed to be using Twitter?” So I’ve decided to create this post to give people a chance to explain themselves in more detail Feel free to leave a comment if [...]

Read the full article →

The history of Malware on Twitter [infographic]

March 23, 2011
Read the full article →

← Previous Entries