Back up your followers with Tweetake!

Many moons ago in 2008 I teamed up with @alfaguru to develop a system that allowed you to back up your Twitter followers, friends messages and DMs – we called it Tweetake.

Because both of us have real, paying work to do, we’ve not promoted it as much as we should, so it’s always lovely to see that many people use it every day.

Every few days someone drops me a line and says nice things about it, and occasionally people even donate towards future development which is nice.

But I didn’t imagine anyone would write a blog post about it!

Compers: Twitter friend or foe?

Up until a couple of years ago, the term ‘compers’ conjured up images of individuals, or sometimes even couples or entire families, spending hours cutting out and filling in competitions from magazines, newspapers and newsletters. I blame this knowledge entirely on half a dozen Channel 4 documentaries.

Nowadays, compers are digital. They spend a large part of their day on Twitter, retweeting and replying to competitions run directly by big and small brands. And being digital means they can enter hundreds of competitions every week, with a simple click.

Twitter: Can You Stay True To Yourself? [Beckerman’s Dilemma]

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Unless you’re heavily into photography you probably won’t have heard of Beckerman, but amongst street photography buffs he has a reputation for making strong black and white pictures in New York.

There are many such people today attempting to make a living by selling their images on-line but Beckerman was one of the first to set up an on-line photography store, later adding a popular blog, more than a decade ago.

Surprisingly he has only just gone onto Twitter. He probably wouldn’t have done so at all were if it not for his cousin Ray, who began tweeting links to Beckerman’s blog a few months back. This started to bring more visitors to Beckerman’s blog, and from there his store.

My top five Twitter tools for automating, updating and managing Tweets in the office or on the move

Using Twitter

Using Twitter

Tabitha Potts is a ‘mumpreneur’ and Tweetaholic who runs a small business, Mimimyne, selling organic baby clothes, kids clothes, kids wallpaper, furnishing and toys  in East London.

Do you know what you want to get out of Twitter?

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By Rene Power

Ask yourself a question: When does ‘just dipping your toe’ work in any walk of life? The answer is rarely.

So, why do so many people dip their toe when using Twitter for the first time? And are you one of them?

If you are, you’re about to waste a lot of time and effort and will be dissatisfied with what happens as a result. Take a step back and consider the following.

So I’ve set up my Twitter account: now what? Netiquette and tips for Twitter

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By Tabitha Potts

In my last post I looked at some of the first things you should do when setting up your Twitter account for business or branding reasons: whether you’re a life coach, a handyman, a mummy blogger, a PR or an accountant there are so many reasons why Twitter can be useful for you that it constantly amazes me when people say they aren’t going to try it out. It’s great you’ve made that jump! Once you have set up your account, found some good people to follow and written your profile you will probably then be wondering – what do I tweet about?

How Quora used Twitter to succeed

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Twitter has long been the breeding ground for launching potential viral content. The ability to retweet links easily and quickly means trending topics often receive millions of page visits. Justin Bieber would probably vouch for that. But one of the best examples of the influence Twitter can have on a business is the recent explosion of Quora.

Now we know: Twitter is a good place to sell niche nonfiction books

Once in a while it’s encouraging to see a straight, old-fashioned sales success story, and here is my latest contribution.

Back in the early OOs I wrote a book called “The Horse Lover’s Joke Book.” It took me all of about 3 months in total and I enjoyed every minute of it. The book was published by one of the specialist equestrian imprints and since then it has sold out several times and been reprinted as many times again.

The ultimate, but simple guide to getting more followers on Twitter

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To get more followers on twitter (I have 5300+ now), there are three main ways of gaining followers:

1) Proactive means

2) Passive ways

3) automated following

All of these methods rely on you putting up interesting content to your target market. Plus following the rule of thirds for your tweets – 1 third about you and what you are doing with your business (not selling, just talking about what you are getting up to in your business), 1/3 replies to people – after all you are looking to engage with your followers, and 1/3 about your business, e.g. blog posts. Until you are established on twitter (think 500+ followers), don’t be tempted to advertise on twitter. Out of about 10-15 tweets I post up a day, I only allow myself 1 tweet which is an advertisement for one of my products.

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