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Use Twitter to get influential people to help you

July 18, 2010

While I provide specific steps below, what’s most important is that you (1) be a real person (2) and engage people (3) who are interested in your topic. Any way you do these three things is good! How to find the most influential people willing to help you Let’s say you’re trying to get ideas [...]

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What REALLY happens when you use “@” in Tweets?

July 12, 2010

First, imagine a fictional family where everyone follows each other on Twitter: @Mom, @Dad, @Brother and @Sister. 1. The basics Rule #1: A person must follow you before you can DM them. If @Mom and @Dad (fictional example names) want to write completely privately so no one will see what they write but each other, [...]

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Do’s and Don’ts of Social Media for Business

July 11, 2010

Nice infographic I thought worth sharing: Via: The Steel Method

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Does a name change lose you followers?

June 27, 2010

UPDATE, June 30: This is really, really interesting: Our old account @Twitter_Tips has GAINED almost the same amount our new account @TweetSmarter has lost—1753 followers as of early June 30. And by “lost” I mean the difference between what our followers would usually have been and what they are (see chart below). This is a [...]

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Some Twitter spammers got caught out by our name change

June 27, 2010

UPDATE: Twitter has finally informed me they are looking into this issue: If you see anyone’s tweets beginning with “Tweetsmarter: ” please report them for spam. Do NOT report someone simple for including @Tweetsmarter. It’s only tweets that do NOT use the “@” and start with exactly the username followed by “: ” that are [...]

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New Record: Twitter Reaches Peak Rate of Nearly 200,000 Tweets Per Minute

June 25, 2010

On June 24 during the Japan vs Denmark World Cup group match, Twitter reports tweets were posted at a peak rate of 3,283 tweets per second (TPS). As The Next Web points out, that translates to a rate of 196,980/minute. Think about that: if sustained, that would be a rate of nearly a million tweets [...]

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Twitter’s Deadly Problem: The “Tweet At The Top” is Becoming Invisible

June 7, 2010

What if the police put up lots of fake speed limit signs—that you didn’t have to follow—and then set up speed traps wherever the speed actually changed after a real sign? They would catch a lot of motorists going the wrong speed. Many people would fail to notice which the real signs were at first (did you [...]

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#OperationShoutOut in support of U.S. Military service people

May 26, 2010

Office Depot and Lexmark are donating new Lexmark printers to Operation Homefront, a non-profit organization dedicated to the needs of military families nationwide, each time a customer purchases a Lexmark printer in an Office Depot store (regularly priced at $199.99 and above) or online here. Office Depot and Lexmark hope to donate more than 4,000 [...]

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How to search ‘near’ a location in TweetDeck

May 21, 2010

A very much-requested feature for Tweetdeck has been worked out: How to search near a location. Here’s what you need to do: To search ‘near’ a location in TweetDeck use the following “<query> geocode:<long>,<lat>,<radius><mi/km>” eg for Pancakes in 25 Mile Radius of London UK: “pancakes geocode:51,0,25mi” Thanks to @mattslight for posting this at http://support.tweetdeck.com/entries/59155

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How to support a good cause using Twitter, blogging & social networking

April 15, 2010

Have a good cause to support? Add your information in the comments! People like to help Twitter (& life) is a social place. People like to help. People often ask me how can they do fundraising for a problem or person they know about. We helped a friend we met online last Christmas raise money to help [...]

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