Has anyone stolen your tweet and you want revenge? Twitter will remove tweets via their DMCA form if they determine the tweet’s content was stolen. The Verge broke a story that a freelance writer was filing multiple DMCAs against a multitude of Twitter handles for tweeting out the same “joke” she had tweeted previously. The […]
Twitter Blends Sponsored Tweets in Twitter Stream Better
If you have been confused about sponsored tweets appearing in your Twitter stream that look like regular tweets, you are not alone. Twitter has made some changes to sponsored tweets so they aren’t obvious as being sponsored. Notice the promoted part at the bottom? That medium gray icon to show it is a sponsored tweet […]
Twitter Launches Ad Targeting Based on User’s Installed Apps
Twitter is launching a brand new type of ad targeting that allows users to be targeting based on the apps they already have installed on their smartphones. While this new targeting type will make advertisers pretty happy, some users might not be quite so happy about being targeting based upon their apps. This new ad […]
Twitter Analytics Adds Audience Insights
Twitter has added some new features to their Twitter Analytics product, including new audience insights. The new insights provide users with many more insights including demographics, interests, mobile usage, lifestyle and both purchasing and TV viewing behavior. Then users can drill down into each section for much more detail on each. One of the new […]
5 Ways Social Media Affects Google Search Rankings
It seems like everything funnels through social media these days, and SEO should be included in that category. Not only are the two related, but social media actually has a direct impact on search rankings and overall SEO efforts. This can either be a positive or a detriment to your web pages – the choice […]
Twitter’s “While You Were Away” Favors Visual Content
If you have a lot of followers who might only check into Twitter once every day or two, you might want to consider posting more visual content. The “While You Were Away” feature tends to favor visual-based tweets over purely text tweets when it chooses what to display. Twitter recently made the change to display […]
Hashtag Spam – How NOT to Automate Your Social Media
Oh the crazy life of a Community Manager! Somehow we are supposed to keep 12 different social channels active on 12 different schedules with custom content for each audience without losing our minds. If we are agency and not in-house, we are most likely running those twelve channels multiplied by several clients. There aren’t enough […]
Twitter Running Promoted Tweets on Porn & Other X-Rated Profiles
Advertisers are pulling promoted tweets from Twitter after discovering their ads were being displayed on porn and other X-rated profile pages on the popular social media platform. Twitter supposedly had a filter that would prevent promoted tweets from being displayed on any inappropriate content, including porn. Nielsen, the digital and television data company, was the […]
Twitter Testing Easier Way to Follow People in Notifications Tab & in Search
Twitter is testing a small UI change that makes it a bit more convenient – and likely – that someone will follow a person who is engaging with them on Twitter. While participating in the #socialchat on Twitter Monday night, I noticed that when viewing retweets and @jenstar replies to me, that next to the […]
Best Tools to Productively Manage Contacts You Build on Twitter
Twitter is one of the best contact building tools on the web. While Facebook will probably remain the number one go-to for small businesses looking to generate sales, there is just something about a Twitter account that makes it so simple to network with others who can be a benefit. However Twitter may be overwhelming […]