Social Publishing
Social media: Share fast, check facts later (maybe)
Everyone wants to be first. First to share information, first to break news. First to this, first to that. To be first you must also be fast(est). The competition on being fast leads to the point where anything is shared before checking the facts. Most often it's hilarious, but as with any erroneous information, things can get ugly too. Rumors can be hurtful. Everyone who uses Twitter knows about the false death news. If a person is famous enough they will be announced to be dead at some point. Sometimes when the celebrity then actually dies there are people saying that's most likel...
Twitter Tuesday: Social or spammy?
I've noticed an annoying trend on Twitter: Tweeting lists of other people's Twitter handles. Sometimes they are Follow Friday -lists, sometimes just Tweets saying "Good morning" or "Thanks" and then the list of the handles. I understand the point of these lists is to be social and perhaps generous. "Hey, I'm a nice dude to follow, I will @mention you in time to time and my followers may start to follow you as well." The goal is (somewhat) good, but the execution is lazy. False generosity. Those @mentions aren't likely to stir interest. They seem spammy. Meaningless noise, filling th...
Twitter Tuesday: Url shortening
Last week I wrote about sharing links on Twitter and therefore I felt it appropriate to write about url (link) shortening this week. Because of the 140 characters length restriction url shortening is often needed in order to fit the link in a Tweet. These days Twitter automatically shortens urls in Tweets with their own t.co shortening system. It seems to be a decent system, yet not the only one available. Of course you can always build your own url shortening service with your own domain and all. But if that's not your thing, there are plenty of existing services to go for. Some of...
Twitter Tuesday: Sharing links
Lots of people use Twitter to share links. And lots of people use Twitter to keep up with things by following those who share links. Links to interesting sites, articles, videos, images and what ever they (we) stumble upon while roaming all over web. Therefore here are a couple of cute tips on sharing links. Try these and your sharing will have more effect and won't alienate all of your followers. Read it first Make sure you know what you just Tweeted. Instead of sharing the link just cause the title seemed interesting or someone said it would be interesting, check out what it's made of....
Twitter Tuesday: Tweetbot
Last week I got myself the Tweetbot app and I really really like it. Tweetbot is a Twitter app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It costs 2.99 USD (about 2.40 EUR) and is very much worth it. Before Tweetbot I used Twitter's free official app and I wasn't really happy with it. It is better than for instance the Mac app (which is pretty plain), but lacks of some nice little things. The main reason I bought Tweetbot is it's muting feature. You can mute certain hashtags (love it), keywords, clients (like paper.li for instance) and even users. They can be muted for 1 day, 1 week, 1 month or...
Twitter Tuesday: Should I follow everyone back?
As you gain more and more followers on Twitter you'll might start to think if you should follow them all back. If you are a celebrity, you don't think about it for a sec. Nor if you have a huge ego and believe you are the center of the world. Otherwise, the thought may cross your mind. Why to follow everyone back? Following back is considered as the norm and the polite thing to do amongst some Twitter users. Many of them have also noticed it's a great way to get more followers. It is. Often (non-celebrity) Twitter users have many followers mainly because they follow everyone, except perhap...
Twitter Tuesday: The size (or at least length) matters
Last week a friend tweeted an idea for Twitter: To charge users for being able to write extra long Tweets. Ouch! There's a point in keeping Tweets 140 characters long in maximum. The point is it makes it necessary to think what you want to say and to form it so that it's short and precise. I have a tendency to ramble. My emails are horrible and my blog posts go from here to there. But on Twitter I must keep it short and in focus. This has made me to learn (slowly) to be more economical with my words count. Anyone who has been bombarded by my lengthy and messy emails can say that's a good...
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