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1 Twitter Tip You Can Fix Straight Away

1 Twitter Tip You Can Fix Straight Away

By Mark Suster on August 10, 2009

How do your friends, colleagues or admirers find you on Twitter? One of the obvious ways is to click on “Find People” on Twitter and search for your name.  But one of the oversights for many people is that they list their Twitter handle as their name making them very hard to find in Twitter […]

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6 Tips for Using the @ Sign in Twitter

6 Tips for Using the @ Sign in Twitter

By Mark Suster on August 4, 2009

There is much confusion on how to use the Twitter @ sign – even amongst daily Twitter users.  So as part of my ongoing series Twitter Insights, I wanted to cover how the @ actually works (even experienced users may be surprised by some of the points) The basics: 1. When you use the @username […]

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Did Twitter Kill the Blogger Star?

Did Twitter Kill the Blogger Star?

By Mark Suster on August 4, 2009

When Twitter first became popular with niche crowds in 2007 it seemed to take hold initially with bloggers.  People had been steadily blogging for 2-3 years and this crowd seemed to bifurcate. On the one hand were the blogs that “blew up” and became real businesses like TechCrunch, GigaOm or TalkingPointsMemo.  On the other hand […]

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Businesses Must Manage the Twitter Conversation

Businesses Must Manage the Twitter Conversation

By Mark Suster on August 2, 2009

This post is part of my ongoing series Twitter 101 for all those that still “don’t get” Twitter.  I’m now moving from the 101 basics into the business applications.  I think we all know by now that a conversation is happening on Twitter and that this extends to talking about brands. Twitter is the new […]

Posted in General | Tagged Branding, CRM, microblogging, Social CRM, social media, twitter, twitter 101, twitter marketing | 4 Responses

The Real Power of Twitter is Link Sharing

The Real Power of Twitter is Link Sharing

By Mark Suster on July 17, 2009

This is the fourth posting in a series I’m calling Twitter 101 for all those that say “I don’t get it?”  The Twitter 101 outline it’s here. In the second post I talked about Twitter being like Instant Messaging (IM) and text messaging (SMS) and that is the reason for the 140 character limit.  Many […]

Posted in General | Tagged linking, microblogging, social media, twitter, twitter 101, url shortening

How to Get (the Right) People to Follow You on Twitter

How to Get (the Right) People to Follow You on Twitter

By Mark Suster on July 17, 2009

This is the third posting in a series I’m calling Twitter 101 for all those that say “I don’t get it?”  The Twitter 101 outline it’s here. In the first post I talked about how beginning users can just be “consumers” of information by subscribing to news sites or bloggers, reading their 140 character “headlines” […]

Posted in General | Tagged microblogging, social media, twitter, twitter 101 | 4 Responses

Twitter is IM (and Why the Limit is 140 characters)

Twitter is IM (and Why the Limit is 140 characters)

By Mark Suster on July 16, 2009

This is the second posting in a series I’m calling Twitter 101 for all those that say “I don’t get it?”  The first post is here and if you want to see the outline it’s here. In the first post I talked about how Twitter is a real-time news source where by subscribing to the […]

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Twitter as a News Source (RSS)

Twitter as a News Source (RSS)

By Mark Suster on July 15, 2009

Twitter is one of the most misunderstood new technologies to emerge and therefore a common refrain I hear from friends, family and colleagues is, “I don’t get it.”  So I decided to do a primer with commentary on how I currently use Twitter (July 2009), which will no doubt change.  But I hope to help […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged aggregation, microblogging, social media, twitter, twitter 101 | 10 Responses

Twitter Observations

Twitter Observations

By Mark Suster on July 9, 2009

When I first signed up for Twitter on April 25th, 2007 I was curious what it what all about.  I had been reading a lot about Twitter on blogs followed through its usage at the SXSW conference in Austin when it really “blew up” (and as you can see here – not everybody thought it […]

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