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9 Twitter Best Practices for Business

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Since its foundation in 2006, Twitter turned the globe into bite-sized posts by the distillation of World News, updates, and jokes. With Twitter developing, best practices have arisen for using the site. Here are few tricks to help the company thrive on Twitter and join the big league. How to Build an Account on Twitter.

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The Unfriendliness of Kid-Friendly Social Networks

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Everyone’s talking about the launch of Togetherville , a social network designed to bring parents and their kids together with the goal of learning responsible social networking. Any serious adult user of Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace knows these sites are both social and anti-social.

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Social Network Mass Unfollowing is an Empty Gesture

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Recently a couple of people told me they were thinking about unfollowing all of their social network friends and starting over. Sometimes it’s done as a “grand gesture&# to convey to the world that the quality of social network relationships matters more than the quantity. Here’s why.

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Could you go social-network-free for one day a week?

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What if the preferences for your favorite social network allowed you to pick one or more “blackout days” during which you could not log on? Could you get by for a full 24 hours, or more, with no access to Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed or any of your other favorite social media tools? The API would be shut down, too.).

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Asymmetry of Expectations in Social Network Friending

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When you choose to add someone on Facebook, Twitter, or Foursquare, do you stop to think about how they might react to your invitation? And when you receive a request, what kinds of reactions have you had? There are many emotional responses to a friend request, and often, an imbalance.

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Students Failing English Due to Twitter, Facebook

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The free-form writing style of social networks like Twitter and Facebook is changing the way people communicate, and causing students to fail English. And academicians are, in part, blaming social networking. And academicians are, in part, blaming social networking.

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Twitter Rules vs. Community Values

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I recently posted my Brief List of 53 Twitter Rules , guidelines for how I choose to use Twitter. I got a great response, and one person commented they liked Twitter “because there weren’t rules.&# In addition to the TOS, there are also The Twitter Rules. If you use Twitter as a kind of AIM/MySpace 2.0,