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By Jason Tezgerevski, Posted in Twitter

Twitter lists allow users to organize their most influential or industry specific followers. These lists are essentially a curated set of Twitter followers that can be determined by category or topic. For example: "Tech," "Inspiration," or "Celebrities" are all great list ideas that can eliminate clutter on your feed, and allow you to only view the tweets related to your elected topic. Twitter lists are useful for both business and personal accounts as they can help you stay organized. If you're a techie,... read more.

• January 14, 2013
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By Jason Tezgerevski, Posted in Twitter

Twitter is a social network where users can share their thoughts, rant, promote, retweet, and more. For me, it is a place where I can keep current on relevant topics that interest me. When I follow a new influential user, company, or celebrity I quickly add them to a list so if I'm strapped for time and wish to catch up on any current news within a specific category, I can do so within seconds. The social networking platform is thankful for all of their faithful followers, and how each and every one of th... read more.

• December 12, 2012
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By Jason Tezgerevski, Posted in Twitter

Your company's Twitter account is a direct reflection on your business. Most businesses are eager to obtain new followers or fans on their social networks, but this is difficult to achieve if your tweets are not consistent. Users of social networks such as Twitter follow an account either for their popularity or a few aspects that they are well known for. Hone in on the specific message that you want to get across to your fan base and post relevant topics that closely relate to your brand or business. Twitt... read more.

• December 05, 2012
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By Natalie Contreras, Posted in Twitter

Hashtags have become the craze especially on Twitter and Instagram. Users are becoming more hashtag friendly, adding dozens of hashtags to tweets and Instagram images. Hashtag abuse is all over social media from unnecessarily long hashtags to hash-tagging every word. Even if it's one hashtag or thirty there are a few unwritten rules to keep in mind when using them. Hashtags on Facebook. This is frustrating especially to those avid Twitter and Instagram users. Hashtags on Facebook don't do anything. Fa... read more.

• November 09, 2012
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By Kelsey Kistle, Posted in Twitter

Twitter has done something for the first time: blocked an account acting on a policy known as "country-withheld content". This security feature was put into effect in January 2012 and never used until now. In Berlin, a German neo-Nazi group joined the Twitter bandwagon, creating their own Twitter account. The group then started tweeting about government suppression and the influences of financial institutions like Goldman Sachs. The country-withheld content was meant to balance freedom of expression thro... read more.

• October 18, 2012
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By Natalie Contreras, Posted in Twitter

The Republican Convention was held last night in Tampa swearing in Mitt Romney as Republican candidate. Romney was himself with his countless lies  to make our POTUS look bad. This time Romney brought in a mini-army to help bash on the President. This morning I hit Twitter search to see what my fellow politickers were saying about the #GOP2012. @TruthTeam2012 is run by the #Obama2012 campaign staff tweeting to get the facts out there after Romney's stiff allegations via his campaign. This pr... read more.

• August 31, 2012
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By Natalie Contreras, Posted in Twitter

The US Olympic Team is ready for London and you should be too. The Olympics this year will be more social media-fied than ever before bringing us all together whilst watching these long awaited events. This year you can keep up to date on your favorite US Athletes via their Twitter accounts. Of course everyone has their favorite sport they like to watch; I prefer the men's diving portion of the games. Maybe it's the super tiny trunks and all the abs but you bet your bottom dollar I'll be following US ... read more.

• July 24, 2012
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By Adam Smith, Posted in Twitter

Every week since December, Sweden Tourism has put a different Swedish citizen in charge of their Twitter account. All was swell and dandy until this week when Sonja Abrahamsson took over the reins. To say the tweets were controversial would be an understatement. Sweden claims the purpose is to promote tourism, as nothing is more real that its people. Thomas Brühl, CEO of VisitSweden, went on to say about the social media campaign, "No one owns the brand of Sweden more than its people. With this initia... read more.

• June 13, 2012
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By Adam Smith, Posted in Twitter

Twitter plans to make a big push for more advertising revenue in 2012. Twitter has seen more and more competition throughout the web and their need to fight back against their competitors is eminent. Facebook and Google, just to name a few, but also the two largest players in the social media advertising market, have seen tremendous growth in advertising revenue through innovative features and designs. Twitter has seen very little change to its design and platform since its inception in 2006. Twitter nee... read more.

• April 04, 2012
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By Adam Smith, Posted in Twitter

Twitter has always been a great way to promote a business by being able to update customers and followers in real-time. Even within Twitter there is a way to promote a business even further, the use of the hashtag. For those who are unfamiliar with a hashtag, it is a relevant word or characters preceded by a "#." This organizes topics within Twitter because once clicked on or searched for, all tweets with the given hashtag will be found for the user. It is suggested, in order to avoid looking like spam, to... read more.

• March 05, 2012
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