Twitter sent an email around to users yesterday, giving four suggestions for getting the most out of Twitter in 2011: Follow your interests: Follow the people who share your passions. Return to Twitter: A call for lapsed users to return to  a service that apparently now has over 200 million user accounts. Ask your Twitter friends for recommendations on who to go with. Filter your reading –  Rather than fearing drinkin from the Twitter firehose, create a list of people who consistently post things that interest you and let them generate your reading list. MORE >>

Tweet At the moment, we are beginning to see more and businesses running a company blog after having established a presence on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. However, I think that a lot of marketers still might wonder whether it’s actually effective to run a company blog. It takes time and effort both maintaining a Facebook page, a Twitter profile and then also a blog, and is it all worth it? Companies that blog have 97% more inbound links.” In line with the increasing number of company blogs, the number of readers is also on the rise. MORE >>

A recent research report from Threepipe Communications revealed that two thirds of the FTSE 100 prefer Twitter to Facebook. Pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKlein was the first FTSE 100 company to send a tweet back in April 2007, whilst Tesco is the most recent convert, having joined Facebook in March of this year, just two weeks before they started using Twitter. 63 FTSE 100 firms are now actively tweeting, while just 33 have their own Facebook page. The infographic below provides a useful summary of the key points in the report. Image courtesy of Threepipe communication. MORE >>

But one of the more creative acknowledgments of the anniversary has to be from The History Press , a British publishing company that started the @TitanicRealTime Twitter account to chronicle the progress of the ship as if sent from aboard the ship itself. TwitterToday marks 100 years since the R.M.S. Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, taking the lives of over 1,500 souls with her in those icy waters. And over the last year or so, the commercial side of the enterprise has been heating up at an amazing pace. MORE >>

I've been on Twitter for almost exactly three years to the day. During that time, my Twitter bio has evolved ever so slightly. I've always included my title and company name. Over the course of my three years on Twitter, I've had a chance to go through at least 14,730 people's Twitter bios. Because they respond to me when I talk about them on Twitter. So while I'm up on my soapbox, here are a few other tips I'd recommend if you're interested in getting more out of Twitter. Yes, there are hundreds of other good Twitter tips. It's funny. MORE >>