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One of the most important factors to being a good Twitter user is to be personable. This fact has sparked an argument that suggests personality lacks to those with more than one twitter profile. Why would you want more than one twitter profile and is this OK? Multiple profiles should be used to interact with multiple audiences, and yes, it’s OK. (more…)

I’m sure you’d love to receive more retweets that you currently do. In fact, we all do, I’m the first to admit it. Why? Because more RTs means more traffic to your blog, to your videos and to whatever it is you want to share with others. Besides, more RTs also mean to get more exposure in other people’s stream so it would be easier to you to attract new followers. Well, today is your lucky day buddy because you’re going to read my best tips to get lots of Retweets.

• Keep your tweets short and leave at least 25 characters with free space. ¿Why? In order to get RTs your tweet will need that free space to contain the RT and @username. Besides, short tweets get more RTs because they look nicer and cleaner than long ones and, above all, because lazy people don’t like to read too much, and the Internet and Twitter is plenty of lazy people . (more…)

If you’re looking for ways to hit your Twitter targets, this is the post for you. First of all, you should ask yourself, what are your Twitter targets? You want lots of followers? Sure, that might lead to some bragging rights, but what’s the point? Really what you’re after is community which translates into meaningful followers. How do you get meaningful followers?

I queried some other successful Twitter-ites to learn about their favorite Twitter Tips. Here’s some ideas to take your Twitter Page from Topsy-Turvy to Titillating! (more…)

Twitter’s search engine is really one of it’s great features, and in this article I’m going to demonstrate some really cool searches you can do with it.

This is kind of a follow up to Thomas Baekdal’s excellent article here on Twitip “7 Secret Ways To Use Twitter Search” which you should check out as well.

1. Who’s saying stuff about me outside of Twitter?
This search will show you Tweets that people write about you or your company that link out to an external page. This is useful for finding what people are writing about you, or indeed when people link to your site without using your Twitter name
[your name|company] filter:links
Live example: mailchimp filter:links (more…)

Tweeting is a fun hobby and nobody denies that. Through Twitter you can meet new people and learn from them. You can make some really good connections and do much more than just chatting.

The side effect of using Twitter: It totally grows on you. At first it is fun to get to meet new people from various backgrounds and bond with them, but after some time you are more into tweeting useful content so that it pleases your followers. And it turns into a vicious circle where you seem to get trapped. The harmless past time turns to harmful addiction!

How is Twitter harmful?

Many of you would ask me the same question as they still believe that Twitter is harmless. Yes, it is harmless to an extent but after a limit it can take total control over your life. (more…)

If you’re new to Twitter, you probably have no real concept of retweeting (commonly seen as RT) and what that can mean for your success and fun on Twitter. I’ve seen it go two ways with my clients who are new to Twitter: (1) some get on Twitter and don’t retweet – ever – because they either don’t know how to do it or don’t want to, and (2) some get on Twitter and retweet like the devil, but they either retweet junk, or they don’t know how to use it to their advantage. (more…)

1. Constant talk about “marketing” and “branding” outside a business context. (Especially from those espousing anti-consumer views.)

When you think of yourself as a “brand” that you need to “market,” you’re trying to pitch, not converse. Buying and selling has its place– in the real financial market. It should not be applied to everything in life. If you want READERS it is better to frame your thinking in terms of having a point of view and a focus that is consistent enough to make people want to subscribe and talk to you. (more…)

As a medical, health, wellness or fitness professional, you may have been lured into using social media tools such as twitter to promote your brand, promote your message or increase your profile.

The fact is, that there are numerous fads promoted on the internet and we will never be able to stop this. What we can do however, is to work as a team to promote positive health messages that are backed up with good science. The more voices from qualified and experienced practitioners the better.

If you’re just getting started, here are 7 tips that can help you be more effective.

1. Confidentiality: Confidentiality is equally important online as it is offline. It is not ok to mention any information that can identify clients or patients in social media. It is also important not to write anything where a patient could identify themselves – it could be embarrassing for them or break client trust so important in in achieving positive health outcomes. (more…)

I’m sure you’ve already asked yourself this question: “What can I do with the hundreds, even thousands, of links to sites, videos, photos, my followed tweeps are sharing every day?” Too much content here, requiring too much time to go through… But, obviously, this content may be of interest. You are following these tweeps for good reasons, aren’t you?

So the big question is how could one easily browse this immense list and quickly discover, among this massive flow of data shared by my followed people, the articles, blogs, sites, videos, I want to spend time on? This is exactly what the new (free) tool Paper.li is about. (more…)

Twitter Favorites is like that barking dog. You aren’t sure how to deal with it, and keep looking for some obedience classes to tame ‘the beast’.

I “favorite” several quality Tweets that I see come through my Twitter stream. Especially when I am out traveling I do this a lot.

Often I see a Tweet that I want to dig deeper into, but just don’t have the time to give it the proper attention right away.

Twitter allows you to Favorite Tweets that come through your Twitter stream. This is all fine and dandy, the only problem with Twitter Favorites is that the only option Twitter provide is to store Favorites sequential by default.

Google Reader To The Rescue

Since Twitter or 3rd party products don’t offer options at the moment to organize your Twitter Favorites we need to be a little creative. (more…)