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How to find out where your Twitter followers are

07. Nov, 2011 • Categories: Twitter • by Jon Reed

I’ve been looking for a social media tool for a while now to tell me where in the world my Twitter followers are. And I’m not alone: it’s something that I discussed with Joanna Penn on a recent podcast. I’d previously used the (now apparently defunct) Twitteranalyzer to give me an idea of this – but we [...]

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Seven Questions Answered

31. Dec, 2010 • Categories: Twitter • by Jon Reed

I mentioned yesterday that I hosted a Q&A on online marketing on Twitter earlier this month. Thank you all for your questions. Here are just seven of them, with my responses in slightly more than 140 characters this time! You’ll notice I’m using Twitter Blackbird Pie, which I mentioned in Tuesday’s post, to embed the [...]

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Two Twitter Birds

26. Dec, 2010 • Categories: Twitter • by Jon Reed

On the second day of Christmas, I’m giving you two Twitter birds! Or at least my thoughts on why two Twitter accounts are better than one. I often come across confusion about what authentic tweeting means. Just tweeting promotional messages is boring and won’t get you many followers. Telling people what you had for breakfast [...]

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How to customize your Twitter background

06. Nov, 2010 • Categories: Twitter • by Jon Reed

Your Twitter profile page is an important marketing tool. You can use it to provide information about your business in the biography (in up to 160 characters), add a weblink to your site (essential), and customize your page to reinforce your branding (advisable). You can choose from around 20 default Twitter ‘themes’, or background designs [...]

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How to use hashtags

19. Oct, 2010 • Categories: Twitter • by Jon Reed

Hashtags probably cause more confusion than anything else on Twitter. Yet they are simply clickable keywords within tweets. What turns them into links? The hash symbol in front of the word – e.g. #xfactor. What happens when you click on a hashtag? You see a new timeline of tweets from everybody who has used that hashtag [...]

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How to increase your followers on Twitter

19. Jul, 2010 • Categories: Twitter • by Jon Reed

Once you’re on Twitter with a nice branded profile, tweeting appropriately and engagingly and following key people in your community, it’s time to build your followers. Why do you want to do this? Because building followers on Twitter is like building up your email list. Once you have a sizable list, you can announce your [...]

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