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Advanced Twitter Search for Leads

Advanced Twitter Search

Twitter search is a great way to find leads and new connections to help your business grow, but using just the search box alone can yield an awful lot of noise! So let me show you how to easily filter out some noise and get a result that’s useful with advanced Twitter search.
Thinking about how [...]

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Adding Recent Tweets to Your Website

Put Twitter on your website

A few users have asked us for an easy way to add something a little more dynamic to their website without having to re-build it. Here’s a way to embed your most recent tweet on your webpage. All it takes is a little snippet of javascript code.
copy this code and paste it into your html [...]

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Your Twitter’s in My LinkedIn

LinkedIn Twitter Integration

Not too long ago, LinkedIn announced the ability add a link to your Twitter account to your profile along with the ability to send tweets from LinkedIn to Twitter and vice versa. Now, they’ve gone a step further with additional Twitter features including the ability to tweet and track all of your followers from within [...]

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Let’s talk about Twylah-a new way to look at Twitter

Did you know you have a blog already on Twylah? It’s there already there, waiting for you, all you have to do is claim it. Why should you? Becaue it will change the way you look at your Twitter stream, help you find new people who are interested in the same things, and give you [...]

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Twitter’s Blackbird Pie Bakes Up Your Tweets

Twitter Embed Tweet

Last week Twitter announced the launch of Blackbird Pie where you can plug in the URL of a tweet and it will generate HTML code you can use to embed that tweet on your site or in your blog. Previously, online publishers were primarily using screenshots to show specific tweets in their articles or posts. [...]

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Do More with Hootsuite for Managing Twitter

Hootsuite Twitter Management

Last week we covered some of the basics for how to get started with setting up Hootsuite as a social networking dashboard. As a tool for managing your social networks all in one place, Hootsuite is a web application tool for managing multiple platforms at once. This post will focus on how to monitor keywords [...]

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Hootsuite As Your Social Media Command Control Center

Hootsuite Social Networking Tool

When Hootsuite came out it was primarily a Twitter management application. People liked it because you could track multiple Twitter accounts, keywords and schedule tweets all in one place. It still does all that but it also does so much more. Hootsuite has evolved to include management and posting to LinkedIn, Facebook profiles and fan [...]

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You’ve Been Re-Tweeted!

Twitter Retweet function

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Whether you are just starting out on Twitter or have been using Twitter for awhile, you are probably aware that “re-tweeting” on Twitter is not only a common action but it’s a desirable one as it means others have found your messages to be worth passing on to their followers and helps to [...]

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Reader Question- On Facebook, Use the Wall as the Homepage or Boxes?

Facebook Fan Page Design

A reader wrote in to ask which was better on a Facebook Fan page.

Use the wall as the homepage?
Create a custom look using boxes amd FBML?

Facebook fan pages are really mini-websites where a brand, product or individual can create community around themselves, get some feedback and hopefully input from fans and take advantage of the [...]

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Twitter Background Design Template

Create a Custom Twitter Background

Look at custom Twitter backgrounds and you’ll see there are a lot of similarities in what people do. You can only be so creative with a Twitter background because you are slightly limited by the design constraints of the Twitter content layout.
Look at the basic Twitter page design
At the top of the page there’s about [...]

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Using Twitter Lists Effectively

Twitter lists

Twitter lists came out a few months ago to much fan-fare and everybody rushed to “curate” their own lists of Twitter followers. There was a flurry of posts about people mass un-following and following a list of people related to their area of interest instead.
I’m not a big advocate of just following Twitter lists with [...]

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HootSuite and Wordpress?

Hootsuite and Wordpress

If you’re a fan of the popular Twitter dashboard Hootsuite you’re going to be really excited about their latest news. Check it out.

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7 Things You Can Do Now to Get Real Followers on Twitter

Twitter

I’m not talking about empty vapid followers, spam bots or spammers here. I’m talking about how to get real, useful and interesting followers who add value to your network and bring other interesting people with them!
1. Survey your existing followers. Who has consistently had good information? Scan their tweets and see who they are having [...]

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Twitter Hashtags- Using the Back Channel

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Almost every conference you go to these days has a contingent of people happily Tweeting the high points (and the low points) of the event on Twitter. This can be hugely useful to you as an educator, even in a classroom or distance learning situation. Learn how to use what is called the “back channel [...]

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Blend Multiple Twitter Feeds on Your Blog

Tweetblender

Unlike Ghostbusters, there are a lot of reasons to want to bring multiple streams into a widget on your blog. Maybe you’re a neighborhood site and you want to import the feeds from local shops, events and news, or you’re a corporate entity with a different account for each division. In the past you’ve had [...]

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Twitter and Google Analytics

Twitter Analytics

I’m not really a huge fan of Twitter ranking sites. It’s not sour grapes over other people’s rankings, it’s just how crazily different these can be! It  goes to show how we still don’t have data gathering for this stuff down to a science yet. Ari Herzog wrote a good post on Twitter ranking when [...]

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