Tag Archives: Twitter tips

4 Ways to monitor your Twitter account

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

You tweet, you retweet, people tweet you… but it can be difficult to see how these patterns are changing over time. Just taking a snapshot of your numbers of followers once a month, or counting up how many retweets you … Continue reading →

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Hashtags: how to avoid trouble

Posted on February 15, 2012 by

Hashtags are a brilliant way to cluster your tweets, and those of other people, by theme or campaign. But they’re not without potential problems, especially because nobody really ‘owns’ a hashtag and people might start to use the one you’ve … Continue reading →

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How to tweet – what do you think?

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

Morning, everyone. We haven’t had an infographic on this blog for minutes, so here’s one that has come from the Digital Buzz Blog. This graphic gives some tips about tweeting for maximum results, including timing your tweets and using ‘action … Continue reading →

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Use Twitter to Cope with a Crisis

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

Some good advice here for using your Twitter account to handle a crisis – including a useful reminder to really use those 140 characters imaginatively. There’s also the handy factoid that many journalists use Twitter as a source of, well, … Continue reading →

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Timeline of a Twitter donation

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

Here’s a useful example of how someone gets engaged with some campaigning tweets, and is encouraged to take some action. This has come via UK Fundraising, and uses Storify to track the exchange of tweets between the charity and the … Continue reading →

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Another truckload of tips and tricks

Posted on January 13, 2012 by

It’s a good thing that there are all sorts of digital pioneers out there, willing to share their hard-won knowledge with the rest of us. So here’s today’s selection of tips and tricks: What is Edgerank? Understand more about Facebook’s … Continue reading →

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Five Top Fives: 5 Top Twitter Tips

Posted on December 21, 2011 by

In the second of my Five Top Fives from this year’s posts, here are my top 5 tips for using Twitter: 1. Fab Twitter Guide Jack Ashman’s Twitter guide is a great piece of work and goes a long way … Continue reading →

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Excellent Twitter Guide

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

Here’s a quick and excellent Twitter guide, from Jack Ashman (writing in UK Fundraising). This is fab stuff, and gives you tips about how to design your tweets depending on whether you want them to be retweeted, to get more … Continue reading →

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3 useful ‘how to’ guides and 1 list of resources

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

Here’s a few useful guides to doing clever stuff on social media which have come my way: 1. Twitter I didn’t realise that you can actually change your twitter username but if that’s something that you do need to do, … Continue reading →

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More fuel for inspiration for Twitter users

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

If more inspiration were needed this morning, then check out this article about exciting and influential uses of Twitter. The article is from The Wall Blog and I’m afraid I’ve not played the video yet as I’m on the move … Continue reading →

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