Twitter is a social networking channel that has become a very popular strategy for internet marketing. Business owners are using twitter to promote their brands, stay in touch with their customers, handle customer complaints as well as to recruit new customers. However, your success depends on how you use this channel. The following are tips on how to use twitter effectively.

Build quality relationships from other users
Identify those influential people within your niche and then build quality relationships with them. These people could be mentors, advisors or experts within your area of specialization. The best way to build relationships with such people is by following them, retweeting their tweets and commenting on their tweets.

Be ethical
Ethics portray you as a professional person and attract more people to your profile. Always practice good governance by giving transparent and honest information about your brand. When retweeting, always acknowledge the original source by attributing the retweets accordingly. Always give the full names of the original author when posting quotes from people who are not on twitter.

Share links from your website or blog
When you post an article on your website or blog, it is good to share it with your twitter followers. Twitter gives you the chance to share links with your followers. All you need to do is install a twitter plug in on your page and then click it whenever you want to share your content on twitter. Twitter will generate a short URL and short summary directing readers to your website. You can edit this summary in order to make it friendly to search engines and eventually increase your visibility by internet users. Anything you share via twitter can be visible to all internet users even those who are not your followers.

Create an attractive profile title
When creating your twitter profile, it is important to tell other users what you do. Tell twitter users about your area of expertise, your experience and how you can help them people are always looking for solutions to their problems and the best way to get a large number of relevant followers is by telling them what you can do for them. This encourages those people who are in need of your services or products to request to follow you. Optimize your profile title so that you can become visible to internet users.

Do not use offensive language
Twitter users have different backgrounds, and so you need to pay attention to what you share via twitter. Remember that twitter is used by people from all over the world. Always use a language that is polite to all of them. Avoid using offensive words too in order to nurture a good relationship with your followers.

Optimize your tweets
Optimizing your tweets ensures that you reach out to as many twitter users as possible. The keywords you use when posting your tweets determines the type of followers you get. Twitter also displays your profile to other twitter users, and this is often determined by the nature of your tweets as well as your profile title. Your tweets are also displayed on the search engines during general internet search, and so the type of keywords you use determine the nature of your followers.

Post regularly
Twitter is for social networking, and people within your network are looking for constant communication. Tweet regularly to ensure that there is regular communication with your followers. This also nurtures goodwill between the two of you, and thus boosts the success of your brand.

Claire is an expert writer for www.make-a-web-site.com. She mainly writes on internet marketing tips.

There was once a time, apparently during the dinosaur days, when communication was between two or more speaking individuals who met face to face with each other. Throw in a few attempts with the modern technology of the times, a cup and string, Morse code and the like, and we find ourselves all the way into the 21st century with more communication options than we can shake a stick at. Who knows, perhaps all in good time something amazing will be done simply by shaking a stick, as well.

"Who Am I Speaking With, Please?"

As we run down the list of communication alternatives, it is interesting to note the growth that takes place within the realm of each specific creation. The old-fashioned telephone, which was once considered the most popular and most effective way of communicating with friends, neighbors and those in far-away lands has been upstaged by fanciful phones that not only connect two or more people through the magic wires, but also provide pictures, games and cameras all-in-one. What a lovely surprise for us all, or so we assume.

Computers have been designed to "do the work for us." Little did we know it would do almost all of the work of personal communicating, period. Certainly this incredible creation is one to be admired and appreciated. However, it would seem evident that people still actually enjoy talking to real people. Add one point for ingenuity and remove one point for incomplete planning, or anti-social media games at the very least.

Social Media or Anti-Social Media, That Is The Question


As the never-ending yet always creative methods of communication continue, we find ourselves within today's technological updates being swept away with electronic e-mails and online social networking or social media. The buzzword protocols fluctuate almost as much as technologies do. E-mail was once the amazing new creation that seemed almost unfathomably available for the regular Joe. Mostly beginning in the work setting, e-mail made communicating easier, faster and organized. Spreading news around was a breeze. Hence another new name for electronically reaching even further out into the world is born. We dub this new protocol as social media news.

Is Social Media Becoming a Preferred Method of E-Communication?


Social media news extends far beyond that of ancient e-mail. In fact, social media news capacities are spreading like wildfire in homes, offices and personal spaces everywhere. Corporations are beginning to realize that e-mail could be losing ground. The attraction flows toward newer methods of communication that deliver audio and visual capacities in place of answering and organizing hundreds of e-mails on a daily basis. Many believe that e-mail actually slows down productivity due to the constant maintenance factor.

Somewhere down the line we have to ask ourselves what kind of value systems donning so many avenues lined with indirect contact with our peers is really doing to our world. Social media certainly does have its advantages. Perhaps a little more personalized one-on-one mixed in with our world’s doses of techno-frill would hit the spot.

Fran Delaney writes extensively and humorously on technology, social media and gadgets.

This Morning when i opened my Twitter Account(@techniciablog) I was shocked to

too see that twitter has made some changes to its user interface which looks

better than previous one.

 

Let us understand these changes.twitter has introduced new tab called activity

in which you can see your Friends activity.The activity tab includes Favorites,

follows, retweets, and more by people you follow.Many of us thinks that the

Retweet tab is replaced by activity tab which is wrong in the sense that you can

now view your tweets that were retweeted and more in @username tab.

  



@username tab includes your mentions, tweets that were retweeted and who have

listed you recently.

 



Let us know what you think about these changes in comment section below and did

we announce that we are now do follow blog.

Twitter Launches a Web Analytics Tool on Tuesday that will
allow users to find out how much traffic they receive from
twitter.It also enable users to Measure the efficiency of
Their Tweet Button integration and how much Their content
is being shared.




https://dev.twitter.com/blog/introducing-twitter-web-analytics

Old Version of Twitter will disappear very soon


Here is a bad news for those who loves or still using old twitter

interface - Old Version of Twitter will disappear very soon.


Users who are still on the old system is encountering following

message.

You will automatically be upgraded to New Twitter very, very soon.

  



what do you think about old twitter and new twitter share your

opinion in comment section.

World Cup Final: A New Tweet Per Second Record



The FIFA Women’s World Cup set two new records for number of tweets sent per second on Sunday.


The final game, between USA and Japan, set the new all-time high with 7,196 per second at the end of the game. The Paraguay vs. Brazil game is the new number-two spot with 7,166 tweets per second, according to a tweet sent by @Twitter.




    

      

Top 5 Twitter Apps



1. Twitter Atlas

This is a flash application in which the users can locate themselves in a map.The screen refreshes every six seconds or so with a different Twitterer's status report; and profile details are displayed on top of their location on a map. A toolbox allows you to toggle between views - and the Microsoft Virtual Earth graphics are stunning.
 

2.Chromed Bird

Installing Chromed Bird adds a little birdie next to Chrome's spanner icon; click on it and you've got Twitter.

3.Tweetdeck


Tweetdeck is one of the most popular desktop apps for accessing Twitter. Tweetdeck provides a convenient way of handling numerous twitter messages in a single sitting.


4.HootSuite

The service is commonly used to manage online brands and to submit messages to the Twitter microblogging service.Companies and organizations known to use HootSuite include Facebook, the Obama administration, Martha Stewart Media, SXSW, Zappos, The Gap, LHC and Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia).HootSuite provides a browser-based dashboard that allows users to keep updated on their Twitter account.


5.Twitterfeed

With Twitterfeed, it is easy to post straight to twitter, custom laconica installations, identi.ca, and via Ping.fm, concurrently to the numerous services that are supported by Ping.fm.

Google's +1 Button Already More trendy Than Twitter's Tweet Button

Google’s +1 buttons have only been out for about a month, but they’re already more widespread than the tweet button on major web  sites.

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This Google + study was one example, as has been the assert that Twitter is losing users to Google +.

PayPal UK Twitter Account Hacked

EBay Inc. (EBAY)’s PayPal said its Twitter account in the U.K. was hacked and later suspended, though no user data were breached.earlier this month Fox News Twitter account was hacked and Spreads Obama's Death prank.

After recovering thier account they tweeted:

“This account was hacked earlier. We have it in our control now. Your personal data is still 100% safe, hack occurred on Twitter not PayPal”

     

  

Attacks on Twitter accounts belonging to celebrities, companies and brands aren’t as harmful as attacks that actually steal user data — like the recent attack on Sony’s PlayStation Network — but are just as awkward.

Twitter Now Valued at $7 Billion




Twitter’s valuation has almost doubled in the last seven months, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
 

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The Wall Street Journal says Twitter is busy raising hundreds of millions of dollars, at a valuation as high as $7 billion. In December, the same company was valued at just $3.7 billion in a $200 million round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Recently, eMarketer predicted that Twitter would triple its advertising revenue to $150 million in 2011. Last month.

A Job With Clever Twitter Hack

Dutch designers Bas van de Poel and Daan van Dam have artistically come up with a way to use Twitter to get the notice of people in a position to give out jobs, by taking benefit of a core and more prominently manipulable Twitter design element, the “Followers” box.

Looking for a summer job at an ad agency, the two created five related Twitter accounts and uploaded pics that spelled out the words “H”"IR”"E”"U”"S.” They then followed a series of creative directors in succession, trying the trick out on @Pablo_Marques, @Seth_Weifeld, @EmmaPueyo, @TempleofLove, @BandwidthPirate, @MasayaNakade and others. Boondoggle Amsterdam’s Gaston Serpenti ultimately hired them.

Experiments on Google+ and Twitter Influencing Search Rankings

The obscurity began on April 3rd when Google Realtime Search went gloomy. The next day I learned the basic cause to be Google loosing access to its special Twitter data feed.

The source of the disagreement is indistinct, but the effects have been instant. Realtime Search disapeered - all of it, not just the part that relied on Twitter. This integrated Realtime results from Google News, Blog Search links, Facebook fan page updates and more.

For the past two years Google used Twitter not only to power Realtime results, but also for faster indexation of content and, I believe, to calculate Author power for use in their ranking algorithm. Google says they plan on reinstating Realtime with the power of Google+. But the network will have to grow considerably before this works.

Fox News Twitter account was hacked and Spreads Obama's Death prank

official Twitter account of the political team at Fox News was hacked by hackers who have posted bogus stories claiming that Barack Obama has been assassinated.

The messages were posted at around 2am local time, and were quickly retweeted across the network.