Category: Twitter Tips
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Twitter: What is Follow Friday
If you are new to Twitter, you have probably noticed that on Friday your contacts using the tag #FF, adding the name of a user. It can be confusing at first, but it is a custom called Follow Friday. What is? Basically, the Follow Friday is a “tradition” among twitterers, which make use of recommending…
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How to Use Twitter as a Money and Food Diary
The brevity of Twitter updates makes it an ideal tool to be used to jot down short notes, observations or reminders to yourself. While you can manually record what you eat or spend everyday, your tweets might be difficult to archive in a way which can be viewed with a single glance. That’s where websites…
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Learn How to Use Twitter Text Commands
Twitter text commands are words you can type in order to get Twitter to perform a specific action like turning notifications off or on for specific users or for general messages to your phone. Some of the Twitter commands were pretty useful in the early days of Twitter but now that there are many Twitter…
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How to Easily Read All Your Twitter Friend Updates
Ever wanted to easily find out what all your Twitter friends are doing right now? It would be great if there was a way to scan through updates and see what’s happening with a glance. Now you can with Twitter for Busy People, a simple web-based tool that arranges all your Twitter friends in a…
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How to Add a Retweet Button to the Twitter Web Interface
‘Retweeting’ is the process of sharing a tweet that you like with your Twitter followers. Basically this involves copying and pasting the whole tweet in your tweet box and adding a ‘RT’ in front of the tweet or a ‘via’ at the back of the tweet.
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Twitter is Not Just About What You’re Doing Now
Twitter is a tool to broadcast messages to people you know and people you don’t know. At the heart of it is the central problem of what to tweet. What should you write and what should you say? What do you want to transmit or share that represents who you are? What do you want…
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3 Ways to Work Within Twitter’s 140 Characters Limit
As you probably know, Twitter has a limit of 140 characters for each ‘tweet’ and this forced brevity not only reduces the amount of time to make a tweet but encourages users to tweet often in regular intervals. Sometimes you might encounter the problem of having too much to say: at this time, the character…
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A Business Strategy for Using Twitter
Ogilvy has a simple diagram on how twitter can be used as part of a PR strategy. The gist of it is simple: monitor and follow people who are either your target market or people who can influence or affect your business.