Category Archives: Twitter

Twitter ranks as one of the most popular social media tools today. While the name of the game is engage, converse and inform, there are things you can do to increase your off-page SEO and build authority while keeping within best practice.

Facebook, Google+, Social Media, Twitter

Social Media Autoposting from your Blog – A Quick Solution

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While, many will argue that social media is (of course) about your level of engagement, interaction, and networking, there is also quite a few of us bloggers who “prefer” an auto-posting solution “backed up” by engagement (as time permits).

For instance, a large organization can afford the luxury of a social-media focused individual who “can” take all day (or their 8 hours) and properly engage across media channels for a warm and friendly level of interaction.

The other model is the hard working blogger (usually a 1 person operation) who prefers to spend his or her time on the creation of content and fresh articles.

This article’s strategy “can” be utilized by both but is meant for the single entrepreneur who ALSO needs to alert their followers to fresh posts as they are submitted. This method is also a great way to save massive time (keeping your channels active with content) and driving traffic back from those who are alerted to your activity (your fans, LIKES and followers)

Without further ado, I have devised a simple 3 point plan that each uses a different method for submitting. Continue reading Social Media Autoposting from your Blog – A Quick Solution →

Twitter

Feeding your Twitter RSS Feed into Another Twitter account

First off you’re probably wondering why this is necessary? Why would you want to re-post your Twitter RSS to another Twitter account?

Simple.

Example:
Say you have a music act that posts regular feeds from its Twitter account, and YOU want to repost them out of your own personal account. Theoretically this would give you 2 points of promotion, 1 thru the main Twitter account and 1 thru your own personal Twitter account.

Well this idea can be used for businesses in the same way with all sort of combinations.

Example 2:

Your personal account feeds in “common interest feeds” AND you’d like your business Tweets to come thru directly as well (thru your personal account that is)

OK so with that out of the way you have to solve a couple issues: Continue reading Feeding your Twitter RSS Feed into Another Twitter account →

Facebook, Social Media, Twitter

Social Media Deactivation options – Facebook | Twitter

There has been a little confusion over keeping, deleting social media pages in the event you want deactivate.
(Meaning you dont want to give up a page, but dont want it live either)
For simplicity I’ve included the options and a suggestion for Twitter

Facebook:
Personal accounts – can be deactivated and reactivated later (pay attention to prompts instructions when deactivating)
Business / Fan pages – can only be deleted – with no reactivation
Business / Fan pages – will delete if your only admin (personal profile) is deleted / canceled
                                         –  as long as it has 1 admin it will stay live.
(takeaway: protect your business page by having more than 1 admin)
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Twitter:
Deactivation:
Deactivating your account permanently removes your profile and information from Twitter
Before you deactivate your account, you should know: Continue reading Social Media Deactivation options – Facebook | Twitter →

Inbound Updates, Social Media, Twitter

Twitter: How to access your Twitter RSS Feeds?

Sometimes, you will find the need to pump in an RSS feed from your Twitter account. This used to be pretty easy, though Twitter has been screwing around with the RSS buttons and options they used to show. So when you go to your page (logged in or not), this former function seems to be missing.

Have no fear as I have 2 shortcuts for you.
Not a big deal, use the 2 URLS below and replace the “XXXX” with your Twitter page name.
Here is how the RSS feed for the SimpleInbound feed looks

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/SimpleInbound.rss

To Get an RSS feed on mentions
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=xxxx

To get an RSS feed on your posts
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/xxxx.rss Continue reading Twitter: How to access your Twitter RSS Feeds? →

Twitter

Twitter: How to Remove someone from a Twitter list – New Twitter

Now don’t feel bad if you are confused, the method doesn’t make alot of sense, when you get down to #7

01– Login to your account (the one where you created the list)

02- click on HOME at top

03– under “What’s happening? click the sub menu the says LISTS
from the drop down select your list (under “lists by you“)

04– A little to the right you’ll see “View list page” – click that

05– in submenu click on the “Following” tab (in gray area)

06– you’ll now see who the list follows

NOW HERE IS THE PART THAT DOESNT MAKE SENSE

07– Next to the FOLLOWING (green button) you’ll see the “head an shoulders” icon
– select the icon from the name you DONT want on the list
– select “add to list” (even though they are already on it) Continue reading Twitter: How to Remove someone from a Twitter list – New Twitter →

Inbound Marketing, Social Media, Twitter

Twitter: Connecting with your target audience – Going Gaga and not looking back

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Tweeting your market
Tweet you niche
Twitter for business professionals
Finding your Twitter niche sites

Ok, Welcome again to more Twitter techniques! As a social marketer, you of course want to stay relevant to your field, market or niche. I mean it’s nice to want EVERYONE to follow you, but of course its more useful if your “Tweets” are being seen by those who would more appreciate them. Grandma Jones, may not want to hear about Lady GaGa’s new tour….get it!

So with that seque I’m going to use Gaga as a good example of tweeting to your niche.

I like to use tools of course, because when you have a list of 50 things to do, time is short for Tweet relevance. For the purpose of this study we’ll use a tool I love to use for this purpose.

It’s a neat little site called http://tweepi.com/

So you’ve started a Twitter site called @Gagamadness (or such…insert fake name here)
Your wanting to key in on sites that like Gaga, like music, like trends maybe with similar culture (like Hot topic). So you’ll want to follow a few steps.

01– Log on to your Twitter account first

02– Now go to http://tweepi.com/ and click that top blue link (login (via oauth)
(you might have to start a new account, or maybe not) Continue reading Twitter: Connecting with your target audience – Going Gaga and not looking back →

Inbound Marketing, Social Media, Twitter

Twitter: Free Mass follow | Mass unfollow a day – kick starting your new Twitter page

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I thought I might share a technique that I get asked about quite alot. Now I strongly urge you to first check out my article called “45 Top Ways to get Twitter Followers – The definitive guide, just so you have a strong hold on best and worst practices.  There are plenty of software packages that you can purchase for a relatively small fee that will automate alot of this for you. Sometimes though you might be in a crunch to just get a Twitter account started and its info stream flowing nicely, instead of the dreaded “wait till they come” approach.

Why is this necessary?
Basically “you can’t enjoy a party if noone comes”. So you begin to bait and seed your Twitter channel so that at least you have the opportunity to get conversations started.

I found a great site, that you can do just thing for free. It is called http://tweepi.com

Here are the simple steps to get this moving:

01– Sign on to your Twitter account (must be logged in)

02– Go to http://tweepi.com/

03– Click on the gray button “Good old Free Tweepi” – or just login at the top

04– This will instantly try and connect its API to “your” Twitter account
(Click the Blue button “Authorize app”) Continue reading Twitter: Free Mass follow | Mass unfollow a day – kick starting your new Twitter page →