by Diana Urban on December 12, 2010
Want to encourage your visitors to follow you on Twitter? Here is a large selection of Twitter buttons to choose from, with a variety of colors, button styles, and sizes. To add a Twitter button to your website or blog, just copy the code below the Twitter badge of your choice, paste the code into the HTML of your site, and replace USER in the code with your Twitter name.
If you have any suggestions, or requests for color or a different Twitter button size, please comment below and I will add them as soon as I can. Each Twitter button size and color comes in a “Follow Me” and “Follow Us” version.
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by Diana Urban on November 5, 2009
If you’re new to Twitter (yes, many people still are new), getting followers can seem like rocket science. Twitter has evolved since a year ago, when everyone followed everyone back. Now social media is a glamorous affair, with celebrities, companies, and CEO’s joining the party. Now there are tens of millions of people on Twitter, and they’re more picky about who they follow back.
The biggest influence in the decision is interests and how much you have in common. When you follow someone, they’ll get an email notification from which they can click on your profile to see if they should follow you back. The decision is often made within seconds, so it’s important that your interests jump off the page. Click to continue…
by Diana Urban on September 10, 2009
The ability to link Facebook statuses and tweets is great for lazy people, Tweetdeck fans, and social media aficionados boasting “Look at me, see what I can do!” Ok, that’s a bit harsh. Yes, logging into various social networks to speak your mind may be a bit inconvenient. But it doesn’t mean that the best solution is to say the same exact thing everywhere.
Here are some reasons to consider unmerging your status updates and tweets: Click to continue…
by Diana Urban on March 12, 2009
Twitter is a microblogging platform that lets you broadcast short messages to your “followers” (the equivalent of a friend or connection). If you don’t already have an account, I recommend you get one, at least to see what all the fuss is about. It’s all over the media, has become part of major companies’ interactive marketing campaigns, your coworkers are talking about it, and even celebrities are using Twitter.
But I’ve talked to so many people who haven’t joined or gave up on Twitter because they didn’t know where to start. The interface is almost too simple, and it’s not always obvious what to do next. So here is a newbie’s guide on how to use Twitter. Click to continue…
