Jalen Rose, a former NBA star and current ESPN analyst, recently wrote a post for Mashable discussing 5 reasons why every sports fan should be on social media. His first point in his article: social media gives every fan a voice. But how exactly does a sport fan go about finding his/her own voice in [...]
If you’ve been on Twitter for some time, you’ve probably built up a few close relationships over the platform.
Not necessarily the romantic kind of relationships—rather, a list of users that you communicate with on a fairly regular basis through @ replies, retweets and direct messages.
Unfortunately, many of these relationships don’t expand beyond the Twitter platform—including [...]
When you go through the list of your followers, you probably see a great deal of different tweeting styles.
Some followers may tweet all links. Some may talk about their life through a lifestream. And some could have all conversation using @ replies.
The @ reply is one of the most important parts of the Twitter experience. [...]
Many Twitter users (especially new ones) tend to be concerned when they are unfollowed on Twitter. The natural instinct is to wonder why someone unfollowed you and your tweets: after all, your updates are important to you, so why not someone else?
Getting unfollowed on Twitter may not be as bad as you think—and it could [...]
Continuing in a series of posts about creating your Twitter profile, today we’ll take a look at how you can use the “More Info URL” field of your profile in a creative way.
Twitter gives all users an opportunity to provide a website or link to expand on their profile. Outside of the “One Line Bio” [...]
Picking a Twitter profile picture is not always the easiest thing to do. Users can easily gather together a bunch of attractive or interesting pictures of themselves—but not everyone makes the right decision with their photo.
This post is intended for individuals who use Twitter: not companies or brands, which normally default to a logo anyway.
Here [...]
As you already know, Twitter is a huge network with a wide variety of people sharing different ideas, articles and content.
This is one of the main reasons why it is very important to pick a focus niche or area to cover on the social networking platform.
What is a focus niche, you ask? It is a [...]
The Twitter username (or handle, as some may call it) is probably one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make as a Twitter user. The username defines who you are to the Twitter universe—your personal identity.
The bottom line: It’s very important to pick the right username for your account.
Here are five tips you should [...]