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10 Commandments for Twitter

Janet Fouts

Twitter is such a simple communications tool, yet people seem to really struggle with how to tweet. I guess that’s why my Twitter etiquette post is so popular. While the title of this post is somewhat tongue-in cheek, I really wanted to simplify the best practices for Twitter to their most basic form.

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Twitter for Lawyers

Janet Fouts

If you are at the panel tonight for Hastings School of Law please let me know what you thought of it in the comments. It’s a big topic, and there’s no way I can cover Twitter for lawyers in the allotted 10 minutes plus Q&A, so I thought I write up a bit more here for those who attended and those who didn’t.

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Meercat jumps on Twitter Video

Janet Fouts

People are jumping on Meerkat , a relatively new app that allows us to live stream video directly to Twitter through the app. If you’re streaming a Meerkat video it’s pushed to your followers on Meerkat in real time and viewable on Twitter in real time. That immediacy for which Twitter has always been famous.

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App dot net- It’s not Twitter

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The difference between ADN and Twitter. When you look at App.net initially the website itself looks like a stripped down version of Twitter. ADN pitches itself as the platform developers can trust not to shut them out, as Twitter is in the process of doing, with an open API to build apps on, and developers have flocked to it.

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How to Participate in a Tweet Chat

Janet Fouts

Twitter chats, sometimes known as a Twitter party or a tweet chat, happen when a group of people all tweet about the same topic using a specific tag (#) called a hashtag that allows it to be followed on Twitter. Sign up for a free Twitter account. Finding Twitter chats. or Hashtags.org. or Hashtags.org.

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Easy guide to the Periscope video streaming app

Janet Fouts

You don’t have to use Twitter to join Periscope. I still recommend it if you have a Twitter acct as Periscope can leverage the social graph to spread the word about your video stream, but if you don’t have a Twitter account you can simply sign up with just a mobile phone number. Create your username.

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There Is No Free Social Media For Business

Janet Fouts

Blogs were in their infancy and we used bulletin boards and comment streams on posts to communicate with our user-base and we loved every second of it. Facebook and Twitter are now publicly traded, and they have shareholders to please. Corporate Social Media Facebook social business Twitter strategy Twitter'