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Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites by Adam Sherk on August 7, 2009 This week’s Sysomos study of the 5% most active users on Twitter includes a list of the top 25 users (with more than 50,000 followers) ranked by average tweets per day.

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Is Your Twitter Addiction Paying Off

Convince & Convert

I love the Twitter culture and community, and I spend quite a bit of time using Twitter. Maybe you found this blog from Twitter? But, for about 99.999999% of the world, Twitter usage is not an end, it’s a means to an end. Your Twitter goals may vary. 53% of Twitter users never tweet ).

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6 Critically Undervalued Social Media Success Metrics

Convince & Convert

Rather than paying rapt attention to the number of Twitter followers you’ve corralled, instead look at your Klout score. You’ll want to us Radian6 , ViralHeat , Spiral 16 , Sysomos , Social Mention or any of the other social listening tools for this project. And those are never the obvious ones like Facebook fans and Twitter followers.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

To be fair, I’ve only included those I’ve actually used (Radian6, Sysomos, Spiral 16) or tested (Meltwater, SM2). You can also set up various searches from Google, Twitter, etc and run the RSS feeds from each search through Yahoo Pipes and have the resulting feed delivered to your inbox or RSS reader to monitor ongoing.

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Why Influence Mining is the Next Gold Rush | social crm | Social.

Convince & Convert

We’ve gone from MySpace and a era of anonymous accounts and comments attributed to “SexyBear1984″ to using our real names on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere as we build personal brands. If they are social media savvy, you can follow up via Twitter direct message. It’s in our DNA. Customer service?

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McLuhan, Socrates and Edith Wharton On Social Media

Socialized

But I’m not talking about social media gurus or mavens, or people with 20,000 followers on Twitter. McLuhan clearly foresaw the whole phenomenon of blogging, Twitter and Facebook status updates. And on Twitter, when someone clicks “Follow” in our profile, they are subscribing to our updates, not following us. Marshall McLuhan.

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Like Stuff On Facebook? Say Cheese, You're An Ad!

Waxing UnLyrical

This seems to try to put a twist on Twitter’s much-ballyhooed “ promoted tweets ,&# which received more than its fair share of attention. First, because I rarely use Twitter’s web interface, and second, because the minute I see a “promoted tweet,&# even if it’s on HootSuite, I pretty much tune it out.

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