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Twitter and Amazon Link Up, Add Items To Your Shopping Cart With A Single Tweet
Amazon recently launched a new feature called #AmazonCart where Twitter users can add items to their Amazon shopping cart simply by tweeting that hashtag along with...
Twitter Releases Study Showing Exposure To Brand Tweets Drives Action Online And Offline
Twitter released a study this week, in partnership with The Advertising Research Foundation, FOX and DB5, called “Discovering the Value of Earned Audiences — How...
Everything You Need To Know About The New Twitter Profiles
Earlier this month, Twitter announced the upcoming launch of a new profile design. At the time, the new profiles were only available to a select...
Twitter Gains 14 Million Monthly Active Users In Q1 2014
Twitter released their earnings report for the the first quarter of 2014, which shows positive growth in just about every area. In fact, the numbers...
Twitter Tests A New Signup Process Aimed At Getting New Users To Stick Around Longer
Wired reports that Twitter is testing a new, smarter signup process that has been designed with the intention to get new users to stick around...
Twitter Acquires Gnip, The World’s Largest Provider of Twitter Data
Twitter’s VP of Global Business Development, Jana Messerschmidt, announced today the company has agreed to acquire Gnip, a leading provider of social data and a long-standing Twitter data...
Twitter Adds Real-Time, Interactive Notifications To Desktop Version
Those who prefer to use Twitter via the web, rather than using a dedicated desktop app, can expect to see some new functionality rolling out...
Twitter Announces Upcoming Launch Of Redesigned Profile Pages
Twitter announced this morning they will soon be rolling out revamped profile pages designed to be “easier” and “more fun” to express yourself. The new profile design...
MajesticSEO Integrates with Twitter
The team at MajesticSEO have let it slip recently that they wanted to have some fun with Twitter and are working out how to better...
Twitter Adds Photo Tagging And Collages To iOS And Android Apps
Twitter announced they will be adding two new features to their iOS and Android apps to make photos “more social.” Taking a page from Facebook,...
Twitter Experimenting With New Feature To Show How Many People Viewed Your Tweets
Twitter is reportedly experimenting with a new feature (see this link for a screenshot) that would show users how many people viewed their individual tweets. The view...
How to Get More Twitter Followers for Your Brand with Content Marketing
Content marketing and social media are integral to any successful blogger or publisher’s revenue-generating strategies. But how can you be sure that you are taking...
Twitter Is Reportedly Phasing Out @-Replies From Its Service
Twitter is reportedly in the alpha stages of experimenting with a new version of its service that would see @-replies become phased out. BuzzFeed reports that Vivian Schiller,...
How Growth Hacking Drives Twitter Followers via Twitterjacking
Brands are growth hacking their Twitter followers via popular and highly engaging tweets that come from other brands or people i.e. “Twitterjacking”. A great example of...
5 Free and Awesome Tools To Use #Hashtags Wisely
The hashtag: what an incredible invention. Many people credit Twitter with its origination, but that isn’t true. It was used on programs like IRC long...
Twitter To Start Including Promoted Accounts In Search Results
Twitter announced the launch of a new feature today giving Promoted Accounts a more prominent home by including them in search results. Promoted Accounts are an...
▂ ▃ ▅ ▆ █ Buffer’s How-to Guide: Using Symbols in Your Tweets (not just for Tweens) ♬♡►♪☺
Lots of people like to add things like ♥✩♬♡►♪☺♫ to their tweets for fun, but did you know adding symbols can make your tweets shorter and...
Twitter Search Gets Better, More Useful, With New Search Filters
Twitter announced on, of all places, Twitter yesterday that they are bringing new filters to the desktop version of their social network: We’re bringing new...
12 Celebrity Twitter Account Mistakes
As you already know, Twitter is a great tool when you want to socialize with like-minded individuals, promote yourself or your brand, and to keep...
25 Awesome Brands on Twitter That You Should Be Following
If you have a Twitter account (which most of us do), you probably have noticed brands constantly outdoing one another. This is because it only...
How You Can Tell How Old Someone Is By Their Tweets
If you follow social media trends, there’s always been one obvious, glaring fact. Twitter is for the young. Without having much evidence to back this...
The Top 10 Things You Should Know About Twitter
Twitter had a very interesting 2013. As the micro-blogging site continued to gain users, about 30 million or so active users within the last year,...
Twitter Announces Ad Retargeting Feature Called ‘Tailored Audiences’
In an announcement made on their blog yesterday, Twitter is releasing a new product for their advertisers called “tailored audiences.” After testing tailored audiences for...
7 Useful WordPress Twitter Plugins
Love it or hate it, the microblogging service that started back in 2006 has made an undeniable impact not only in the world of social...
Topsy, A Leading Twitter Search And Analytics Company, Purchased By Apple For $200 Million
Topsy, one of the last remaining Twitter search and analytics companies, has been purchased by Apple for $200 million as reported today by the Wall...
How Will Twitter Make Money, Thoughts On Their IPO: Interview With Greg Finn
As part of our SEJ interview series, Greg Finn of Cypress North leads a discussion about how Twitter will make money in light of their...
Are Twitter Ads Useless?
Twitter rocked markets this week with a spectacular initial showing. But how do Twitter ads measure up against Facebook ads? Is it worth spending your...
9 Awesome Uses That Make Twitter Exceptional
Most folks use Twitter to keep up with friends or rant about whatever’s currently rubbing them the wrong way. But, there are so many other...
How To Get Interactions On Twitter
I’m a fanatic when it comes to Twitter. I love it. Over the past month I have been trying hard to push @organize a handle for a...
Twitter Opens Direct Messaging to Anyone; Will This Be a New IM Platform?
Twitter rolled out a new option this week: profiles can choose to let anyone direct message them, even Twitter users they don’t follow. Previously, the...