Janet Fouts

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Secure your Twitter account from hackers, before you can’t

Janet Fouts

Hacking isn’t something new to Twitter, but it’s generally been easy to get your account back through Twitter tech support, though not always quickly. Sometimes hackers use the applications you connected to Twitter in order to hack into your account. If your Twitter account is hacked.

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What Twitter’s Rate Limit Changes Mean to You

Janet Fouts

Twitter recently announced new rate limits on how many “hits” to the API it will allow. Twitter is changing the number of times the application can do that from 350 per hour to 60. In this diagram taken from the Twitter developer blog they break Twitter’s ecosystem up into 4 quadrants.

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Tech and sanity – You can have both!

Janet Fouts

BuzzSumo -Keyword, brand and news monitoring, locating influencers and interacting with them on Twitter right from the dashboard. Hootsuite -Schedule posts and monitor multiple social networks from one dashboard. Hootsuite is still best in class for managing all accounts in one place.

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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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Social Media Efficiency

Janet Fouts

Hootsuite works well for this too. Tweetdeck , Seesmic or Hootsuite. I know that Twitter users use the web site more than they do Twitter clients but really, once you get more than 100 followers you are missing a lot of stuff and trying to find the people you really want to hear can be a chore.

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Don’t be a Pest with “This Social Media Stuff”

Janet Fouts

I’m not saying you have to get the CXO on Twitter all day, they’ve got work to do. Set them up with Cotweet or Hootsuite so they can post efficiently and schedule posts out in advance. Show each CXO and what their Twitter reach is, for example, and then the combined company reach. Give them the tools to work smarter.

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Missing DM’s in your Twitter Stream?

Janet Fouts

If you’re getting an error message on your Twitter desktop or mobile application it’s likely because Twitter recently changed the way authorization works. Read more about the Twitter API change if you’re geeky too. Open your Twitter application on your phone or desktop and check for updates.

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