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Top 5 Tools to Streamline Twitter
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Top 5 Tools to Streamline Twitter
The name sounds like what a bird’s wings do which is appropriate for Twitter. It is a micro-blogging website that has grown by leaps and bounds. Everyone who is anyone is now using Twitter. If you are interested in using it yourself, here are five tools that will help you make the most of your experience.
Twitter users can send short messages up to 140 characters that can be sent to anyone in any location. It’s just like text messaging only on your PC. Now that twitter has taken flight there are dozens of tools available in the Internet to help manage your tweets (the messages that you send and receive.)
1) TweetDeck – This application works on your PC desktop. It is a way for you to manage your Twitter account without having to visit the site each time. You can create groups for friends, business associates or anyone else you like with this application. Best of all, TweetDeck works in the background and also can be used offline at your leisure. Some cool things about TweetDeck to point out include:
- The ability to post your Facebook status and keep up with your friends within your TweetDeck window.
- You can group certain users together in one window so you don’t miss any tweets from them.
- You have a separate window for your @ replies, direct messages and your main stream.
- No need to refresh the page as it updates automatically for you and you can change the amount of time in between updates.
2) Twhirl - This handy feature works on the PC desktop as well. Instead of spending most of your day checking and rechecking your accounts, this handy tool notifies you when you have new messages. Also, it shrinks long URLs to more manageable shorter ones for anyone who wants to click on a link in your tweets. You can search tweets for interesting new subjects and there is a spell checker so you don’t send out illegible tweets.
3) TweetLater - Just like the name says it allows you to schedule your Twitter messages much like an email system. If you are using Twitter for business, it is helpful to schedule tweet delivery, create draft tweets to be used at a later date, set up alerts such as notification when certain users send tweets and tracking users you want to follow.
4) TweeTake – It is always important to backup files that you might need later. Computers can crash at any time. With this tool, you can backup your Twitter information. Us it to backup files, documents and photos. You can save a copy of Twitter account information as well as your tweets and group lists just in case your computer decides to give up the ghost.
5) Twitterment - Well, Twitter has its own search engine as well. Use Twitterment to search for tweets using keywords or phrases. It’s also a buzz tracker to see what’s hot and what’s not in the Twitter universe.
Twitter has caught on in a big way. If you are an avid Twitter user, the above five tools will help you manage your Twitter accounts without tying up your entire day.
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Twitter Part 2 – Using Twitter to Make a Difference
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Using Twitter to Make a Difference
If you want to make contact with people who make a difference regarding your interests and hobbies you can search them out on Twitter.
In order to find someone worthwhile to keep a close watch on you need to see if they have posted anything that they have created on their own or not. If they are ones who only re post others’ content then there is no point wasting your time on these individuals.
Following such people and their posted content can help you in gaining useful information about various subjects of your interest.
On the flipside, if you are one of those who post useful original content on the Internet and use Twitter to improve your connections socially then there will be many followers who will worship you for your content.
Remember that when you are posting content regarding issues that are important to you, there are others out there who are also following this content regularly. Therefore, whenever you post such content make sure you send tweets to all those who are your followers and others who would want to join this list.
Make sure that your content is original and useful for those who are reading it. If you find something on whatever you are interested in suddenly, then make sure you let others following the same topic as well, through Twitter.
Your content can be through Facebook, a webpage you may have designed, a blog you may have written or even videos and pictures that you may taken. The topics can be varied and the content matter can be as quirky and strange as you wish them to be.
But always remember that by posting such content on Twitter you are influencing the thought process and opinions of thousands around you who take an interest in the same topic. Therefore, be careful of what you post to whom. You want to let people know that you believe in something and that you are willing to do something about it instead of just speculating or arguing about it. Therefore, this will be a sort of inspiration for those who also want to join a cause that they believe in or a petition for some change that they want.
Be creative with your content. Present it as you want to. Do not conform to any typical idea. Make the content interesting for those who are following it.
That’s the way I plan to use Twitter – How about you?
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Social Media Optimization Systems
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Social Media Optimization Systems
SMO or social media optimization is a system in which by using the attributes of search engine optimizations your web site is optimized amongst the most happening online communities. This can either be done by strewing links all across the community website to facilitate backlinking or by strengthening the interaction podium by writing numerous blogs and constantly updating their content. This will serve to recreate interest in your blogs amongst your regular visitors and have them coming back for more; though with additional company. This therefore is a more effective method of drawing traffic to your website.
So by now it is clear that if you have to popularize your brand you need to popularize your website. The guidelines below will simply help you a little in that endeavor.
Join a social media platform, for example—Digg, Delicious, twitter, facebook or Technorati. Besides the obvious advantage that your website will be looked up as a very ‘in-thing’ it will also improve the ranking and stature of your page in the tech community.
Tag your article in the correct way to increase visibility. Don’t be stupid enough, to tag an article as Acne when it deals with the more specific issue of acne scars. Make your voice heard and opinion counted, by the tactful use of tagging.
Focus on quantity as much as you would on quality. Keep on adding articles and white pages so that you give your visitors more than enough to chew on. If you do not update your website regularly they will soon lose interest to visit your site in the long run. This tactic therefore assists in adding to the linkability of your website.
The most significant requirement is to provide for methods that simplify ‘tagging’ and ‘bookmarking’ for your customers. This can be done if you provide easy quick buttons or ‘add to del.icio.us’. Allow for tag lists and notes for links to cumulate visibility.
Reward the incoming links as a sort of inducement to make them come back for more. This will not only bring in the existing customers but also pull in more traffic, who would want to get rewarded as well.
Offer downloadable files from your website in the forms of downloadable pdf. files ,audio and video files and make them available to your customer either for free or at a negligible cost. An additional propaganda mechanism can be by sending their copies to various other websites.
Social media optimization has immense potential of escalating the ranking of your website to great heights. Let us now move over to the other technique of social media marketing.
So I hope by now you’re convinced of the power of social media marketing and also what’s it and how it works. If you’re determined to make it big this 2009, you must make full use of social media optimization. Indeed there are several social network sites only but in the next posts, I’ll discuss top 7 social media namely – Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Myspace, linkedin, Squidoo, podcasts and how you can use each of these and generate more traffic to your business.
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