Did you know that you can use the selective twitter application to tweet directly to your facebook fan page?
This is a great free app that helps integrate your social media so you’re updating from one place AND you’re choosing what you want to send to your facebook page so you don’t overwhelm your fans.
Follow the instructions below to integrate your accounts
Twitter backgrounds can now be interactive…
Installing and activating your page with Clickable Now is good practice. Your followers, customers, and constituents may be using either browser, and this is just one more step that will help ease the process for people who want to interact with you on the Social Web.
Install the add-on or script into your browser from here, then give Clickable Now access to your Twitter account. Once you do, it’s pretty simple (See the screen shots below):
The beauty of Twitter is in its brevity. This also applies to the fields you’re given for the profile information on your account. Here’s how you can maximize the limited space you have on your page.
Remember: These tips for making the most out of your profile will get people to your page. But the quality of what you tweet and the level of interaction and engagement that your company or organization demonstrates, is what will gain and keep the subscribers.
Twitter’s @Biz announced that it’s Replies button also allows for searches that do include @username anywhere in the tweet — not just in the beginning as it has been to date.
Rule #1: Give credit via Twitter name. Examples: @SherryMain or @inculink.
Rule #2: Give credit via Twitter name. Examples: @rww or @AdamAinbinder.
When I read an article or blog post online, I like to see Twitter links to the people who are being mentioned. Why? Because if I’m interested in something they’ve said once, I want to know quickly if there’s more to them.
A Twitter profile is a great way of getting a quick snapshot of someone. In this day-in-age of information overflow, I can’t help judge a book by it’s cover. I have 10-seconds to find out whether someone is interesting or not. I can decide later if in fact that judgment was correct, as I get to know them via tweets. But if you lost me in those first 10 seconds, then you’ve lost me forever.
I just read this fun op-ed from the Washington Post by Jeanne McManus.
It comedically devalues life in a Twitter world:
Which comes first? The Twitter or life itself? Are we writing about what we’re doing or are we writing about what we’re going to do or are we doing it because we need something to write about?
I enjoyed her short musing. But now, I can’t find a link to follow her tweets anywhere on the entire op-ed page! Nor have i been able to locate her through Twitter’s “Find People” tool. I’m bummed, as she sounds really interesting, whether these are her real tweets or not:
Jeanne has measured out her life with coffee spoons. Huh?
So I write my own public request to Ms. McManus… and to any other editor, writer, reporter who covers new and social media seriously or comically – on TV, in print or online: please share how we can follow you or become a fan on these new tools which you write about.
NPR’s Science Friday does a great job of this. While driving from Annapolis to D.C. several weeks ago, @Padrepablo and I listened to Ira Flatow (@scifri) interviewing Tim O’Reilly (@timoreilly). Ira repeatedly mentioned how we could follow them. And caller Jeff Levy (@levyj413) – the EPA’s web manager – who talked about government and social media also shared how listeners could follow him. I’ve since learned a lot from following Mr. Levy. I’d like to easily do the same from others.
Of course, privacy is a concern, so I understand if you don’t easily share your Twitter name with your article… but then could you consider separate public and private personas? When used correctly, I can only see sharing Twitter accounts as a great learning and conversation tool.
Taking my own advice, you can follow me @sherrymain.
Twitter integrates really well with Facebook. Let your Facebook friends know what you’re up to or what you find interesting by updating your Tweets (hopefully through a third-party Twitter app). If you’re not already integrating the two, here’s a simple look at how.
Setting up a Twitter account and getting followers is like trying to move up the ranks in online video games. For those who play online games for fun and are not, well, too good, you’ll understand my point shortly.
There have been several articles written about getting Twitter and followers (Dosh Dosh, followers being friends), but my favorite was an article on mashable. This articles gave examples of people who load up on following people in order to get followed. A lot of these are crap marketing accounts, but sometimes normal users do this as well.
Iread this great post today called Scoble Blindness at the Marketing Profs Daily.
Robert Scoble is a high tech social media expert, and this article goes into why people feel like twitter is so focused on social media.
I think the author makes a great point that comes back to lessons learned in business school: Twitter right now is full of early adopters, which tend to be more of your high tech people. The people with thousands of followers on Twitter are the ones who got in early and focused on the social media space.
The future of twitter could be something very different. The average Joe/Jane focuses much more on keeping up with friends and seeing what they’re doing, and a lot of people will use twitter for this reason. As mentioned in an earlier blog post as well, twitter is also a great way to consumer information, such as news, gossip, etc…
As twitter moves beyond the early adoption stage into the high growth stage (which may of already happened), what new uses will we see for Twitter?