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16 Twitter Analogies To Help You Explain Twitter

I seem to find myself digging for great Twitter analogies when faced with the paradox of explaining Twitter to a friend. You would think that something so simple would be easy to explain, yet somehow people are still dumbfounded by its purpose.

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Social Media Video Post

Get Your Hands Dirty

Sometimes you have to go beyond your normal limits and explore unknown social media territory.

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Twitter

6 ReTweet Monitoring Tools

Retweeting has become a great way to find quality information through Twitter. New, more advanced, Twitter monitoring tools have made it easier to drown out a lot of the noise and focus on the quality posts being shared. It’s not fool proof as popularity and quality battle for the number one spots. You’ll almost always […]

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Rant Twitter

Twitter's Reply Changes, Not A Big Deal

Funny how everyone is all up in arms about Twitter’s most recent changes. Small Settings Update

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Rant Twitter

How Much Value Is In A ReTweet?

ReTweeting is the act of re-posting someones tweet on Twitter by copying their message and adding the prefix “RT @username“. The idea is that you are passing on a tweet or a link that you like and think your followers would also enjoy. It’s also a great way of letting someone know you liked what […]

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Social Media

April Fools Survival Guide for Twitter

Once a year, Twitter lets loose, with fictitious news stories devouring the social media space. What’s worse is that April Fools day is no longer limited to it’s normal 24 hour time span. Instead, it lasts for a 48 hour Social Media day. Remember, it’s April 1st somewhere.

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Quality vs Quantity on Twitter

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Blogging Plugins Twitter WordPress

7 Awesome Twitter Plugins for WordPress

TweetSuite TweetSuite is an excellent plugin developed by ‘social & viral marketing scientist’ Dan Zarrella. It started off as a plugin that returned all ReTweets of a post and has turned into a complete Twitter/Wordpress solution.

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How To Social Media Twitter

Who Are You Following on Twitter?

I talked a little about my Twitter following strategy back in a previous post but I wanted to expand a bit.

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Rant Social Media Twitter

Is Your Twitter Run By Robots?

Looking around the Twittersphere these days begs the question “How much of people’s daily Twittering is done by Robots”?