It takes me a split second to decide if I’m going to follow someone on Twitter. I have a new follower’s column on my Tweetdeck and I give it a quick scan daily to find new interesting people to follow. However, there are few things that put me off. As a business you only have […]
Continue reading
Archive | Twitter RSS feed for this section
B and Q Get it Right!
March 11, 2011 
0 Comments
Another great example of companies using Twitter for Customer service. Thanks to @annieqpr for sharing her experience. ‘As you know I love twitter for the social aspect. With my job I am often stuck at home with babies and children sleeping happily away, and it’s a way for me to have adult contact when I’m […]
Continue readingScheduling Tweets
March 10, 2011 0 Comments
Recently I started managing a Twitter account that was not my own and I played with scheduling tweets. However, I really felt it went against the grain of Twitter. Twitter is all about interacting and engagement, so if I scheduled a tweet then I wouldn’t be around to respond to anyone. In a way it […]
Continue readingHands-free Tweeting!
March 10, 2011 2 Comments
I recently stumbled across Dragon Dictation, I can’t remember what I was looking for originally but it looks great. It allows you to use voice recognition to tweet and to post Facebook updates. It’s remarkably accurate and easy to use. However, I wish it had the ability to read people’s usernames or had auto-complete for […]
Continue readingWhat to do if your Twitter Account has been Hacked
March 8, 2011 0 Comments
In addition to running my own personal and business Twitter accounts, I also support on another Company Twitter Account. Today we noticed some odd behaviour. There were tweets with links going out on our feed with the hashtag #ebaymobilephones. If you see any dodgy behaviour the likelihood is that you have been hacked in some […]
Continue readingKeeping Track of Followers on Twitter
March 1, 2011 1 Comment
I sometimes find it difficult keeping track of New Followers on Twitter. I find adding a New Followers Column in Tweetdeck helpful. Here’s how….
Continue readingUsing Twitter Lists for Professional Development
February 20, 2011 0 Comments
When the list feature came out on Twitter I couldn’t see what all the fuss was about but now I find them very useful for professional development, monitoring how people perceive you (check out what lists you are on) and if you want you can spy on the competition without following them. They’re really easy […]
Continue reading
ICT Connections 