Twitter FINALLY has created HTTPS settings. If you’re on Twitter, I recommend (if you haven’t already) getting on there and changing your settings stat. In the upper right-hand corner, where you see your Twitter handle, click the triangle and scroll to settings. On Twitter? Social Media Twitter security setting twitter. This will encrypt your account information when you’re tweeting on an unsecured. WiFi network. Log on to twitter.com. Click settings and scroll to the bottom. Click the box next to “Always use HTTPS.&#. HTTPS MORE >>

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 Digital Surgeons has been comparing the two most popular social networks: Facebook and Twitter. Twitter Client For Your Browser – TicknTalk. Technorati Tags: demographics , Facebook , Infographic , social demographics , statistics , Twitter , user behaviour. Facebook Twitter demographics Infographic social demographics statistics user behaviourSee who the users are and what their behavior is – how often do they login, how many users follow a brand and how often do they update their status. The State of Brands on Facebook [infographic]. MORE >>

I was thinking it was probably time to post something for Twitter beginners, since it’s been a million years since the last time we did , but luckily we have some fab blogger buds who have been busy writing some of this up so I don’t need to! If you are suddenly in the position of having to get on Twitter and figure it out quickly, look no further than Deirdre Reid ‘s fabulous series: Twitter Basics– Part 1: Benefits. Twitter Basics – Part 2: Set Up an Account and Create a Profile. Twitter Basics – Part 3: How It Works. MORE >>

Tweets are short at 140 characters, but a Twitter avatar must visually represent a user in just 2304 pixels. If you’re a conservative, you’ve probably changed your avatar to show your affiliation with TCOT (Top Conservatives on Twitter), even though you find grassroots political activism a little confusing. Brown box special : The tacky default Twitter avatar, indicating a new user, or a spammer, or both, or someone who is too private to post an avatar, or maybe too lazy. Tags: Social Media avatars Twitter twitter You’re “normal,” whatever that means. LOL!”. MORE >>