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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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Twitter is the bird, the bird is Twitter.

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"Twitter is the bird, the bird is Twitter." So writes Doug Bowman, Twitter Creative Director (@stop) on the Twitter blog. It may be the simplest explanation in the history of branding as to why an iconic brand can subsist on a simple, 100% graphical logo (think Apple) without the need.

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Is the Twitter RT irrelevant?

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Do we still need to extend the quaint courtesy of letting people know where we found a link from another Twitter user? There are now over 200 million Twitter accounts (not all active), with. I think the retweet, aka RT (in both its informal and official forms), has run its course.

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Ignoring Twitter = Loss On Noninvestment

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A recent study from Maritz Research / Evolve24 found that 70% of companies ignore customer complaints on Twitter. Many are citing this as evidence that these companies "just don't get it," but I'd rather see it as a huge opportunity for those companies who are not participating. Anyone looking for.

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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,

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LinkedIn and Twitter Connect: So?

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LinkedIn and Twitter announced last night that LinkedIn will now be integrating Twitter updates with LinkedIn user accounts. LinkedIn tweeted early this morning “Learn how you can link your LinkedIn and Twitter accts together! link].&# @LinkedIn even changed its Twitter avatar to mark the occasion.

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Think Twitter Has No Rules? Think Again

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Twitter has no rules. Twitter has its Twitter Rules, its Harassment and Violent Threats Policy, and many other rules that apply to all users. That's what I keep hearing from people who think they are the vanguard of a new movement. Don't believe it. There are rules EVERYWHERE. These are written.

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