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A maximum of 100 characters is now available to create a description of your Twitter lists.
For those people who have Twitter lists or are in other peoples Twitter lists it is often a guessing game based on the Twitter lists name to decide what the list is about.
To add a description to your Twitter lists simply choose the edit list feature and write a description under 100 characters. It should be noted that this is not compulsory but it is a great way to promote your lists further.
Allow you to create lists of your followers into groups. Popular lists are grouped by geography, profession and services. The lists are publicly available and followable from your Twitter homepage.
Each Twitter account can create up to 20 Twitter lists that contain a maximum of 500 people per list. When creating a Twitter list you can choose to make it public or private. Private lists are for your own personal viewing. Lists that are made public as a part of your Twitter profile and can be followed by anyone. At the time of writing lists do not appear to be readable via the major Twitter clients including Swirl and TweetDeck.
Create a Twitter List
Creating a list is a simple task but may take a long time to sort out which followers to add to your lists. You should also make your lists worthwhile to both yourself and others.
- Log into twitter.com
- On the righthand side of your page underneath the search option select “create new list”
- Name your list
- Make the list public of Private. We recommend making it private till you have completed compiling the list.
You should create all of your lists before you begin adding people so you can save time.
Adding people to your lists
1. To add people you can either
(a) Search people to add to your list via the search box
OR
(b) You can also add people from your Following page or anyone’s profile page.
2. .Select the Lists button to add the desired people. NOTE: You can select multiple lists to add people to.
Benefits of creating Twitter Lists
- Enables you to put organise the people you follow.
- By adding people to your lists the other people will see that you have placed them in a list creating an extra view or recognition for you.
- Greater networking opportunities with people in your own profession or local geographic area.
- Once you have created a great list you can share it in a Tweet.
Benefits of following Twitter Lists
- Allows you to follow a group of people with the same interest, for example SEO practioners without the need to directly subscribe to them individually.
- Follow large groups of categorised people for short times such as a project life cycle.
- Weed out the people that you really want to follow.
Your Twitter home page shows you how many and which Twitter lists you have been added to. If you appear on a list and do not want to be on it for what ever reason, there are currently two options available to be removed unless the list is malicious and breaks the Twitter Terms of Service.
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- Ask the list owner to be removed from their list
- Block the users account. This should only be your last resort as it will stop them following you and vice versa.
LinkedIn and Twitter now offer several ways to interact with each service including LinkedIn updates as Tweets, LinkedIn as your Twitter tool, timely status alerts to your company name being mentioned in Twitter and sending urls from within LinkedIn to Twitter.
Updates can be one way between LinkedIn and Twitter or both ways by using the hastags #in and #in.
I would recommend that if you use Twitter for personal updates with friends and family as opposed to using Twitter to distribute professional information that you do not have Twitter update your LinkedIn account.
Benefits of having LinkedIn update your Twitter feed include:
- Twitter updates are searchable and a potential employer could notice you
- If not all of your Twitter contacts are a part of your LinkedIn network then this is a new avenue of self promotion.
- You can find other people to network with on LinkedIn via Twitter.
- If you do not visit LinkedIn on a regular basis then this is a great way to keep your profile updated.
- Tweet LinkedIn slides and other relevant resources directly from LinkedIn.
- See how your networks are using LinkedIn and Twitter together.
- Share what is being said about you and your organisation via Company Buzz.
Installation of Twitter to LinkedIn
Installation of all the Twitter Tools can be made via the option to Edit your LinkedIn account under “Account and Settings”.
Increasingly organisations are utilising Twitter. Sadly, many organisations and especially NZ companies are doing two fundamental things wrong that will stop people following them.
Worse still with the introduction of a myriad of automated Twitter tools that give statistics on users, these fundamental mistakes will make it look like you are a spammer.
Tip 1 – Don’t ask followers to verify themselves.
Do not ask people to verify that they are a real person when they follow you. Captcha tools are annoying and difficult for many people to read. If a spammer follows you this has no effect on your Twitter account.
For me personally using such tools tells me that you can not be bothered to see if I am worth following and you will have an automated process to follow me back.
Take a moment to follow only those Twitter accounts that you are interested in.
Tip 2 – Don’t make your Organisation Tweets Private.
By making your Tweets private to only your followers it gives the impression that you are hiding illegal, immoral or otherwise objectionable material. It also makes it impossible for potential followers to know if you have interesting information so they can follow you or not.
A great post for anyone with a Twitter account who thinks that you have to follow everyone back who follows you and then spend hours scanning through messages just to end up wasting your time and getting frustrated.
http://sethsimonds.com/why-i-unfollowed-everybody-on-twitter/
As a company rule Net Mania will follow anyone with an interest in Social Media, Internet, SEO, Marketing, Web, Technology (to a point), Most businesses, NZ orgs and individuals, Australian orgs and individuals and any other Twitter account we find that uses Twitter in a unique or interesting manner.
We have expereinced accounts that we follow being initially genuine then notice that after a while we are offered quick rich schemes, mens mediation and host of other materials of which we have stop following if they persist.
Our advice is that you should not feel obliged to follow anyone on Twitter regardless of if they are following you and that you should only follow accounts that you are interested in. We also recommend that you do not use Twitter to update your every move through out the day. There are applications such as TweetGroup you could use for such Tweets for family or close friends.
Twitter is not about the number of followers you can gather but about sharing and receiving worthwhile information.
FaceBook and Twitter popularity in New Zealand and Australia will continue to grow with a new Regional Manager for Facebook and VodafoneNZ and Telecom soon to offer tweeting from mobile phones. This coupled with Bebo updates to Vodafone mobiles.
The ever increasingly growing gap between FaceBook and MySpace/Bebo with already large numbers of traditional Bebo users migrating to FaceBook as all of their friends and family are there, will soon be dictated/reinforced by mobile phone access. We could possibly see a return back to Bebo and MySpace if the mobile access is greater for these social media sites.
We should see greater access to all social media in New Zealand via mobile phones much like most of the world already does as the NZ mobile monopoly is being reduced with the new players.
Vodafone has said it will announce prices next week for Tweeting from its mobile and Telecom on May 29. Considering New Zealand has more Pre Pay customers than contract we expect the price to be minimal but estimate that there will be contracts for unlimited tweeting from a mobile.
Again this highlights the need for businesses and organisations of all sizes to consider how Social Media can be best utilised for their organisations.
Page squatting or Cyber Squatting is becoming popular on the Internet. Likewise cyber squatting of celebrity names, brand names and other public figures in social media is common.
Squatting refers to the act of an individual or group using your name and brand to create a presence on the Internet by utilising FaceBook, Twitter, web pages and any other social media sites.
Cyber squatting has been an issue for organisations since domain names were first introduced to the Internet, with domain names being purchased for minimal amounts and on sold for sometimes for millions of dollars. But more recently Page squatting is becoming popular within Face Book and other social media sites where people with good and malicious intentions are impersonating brands, celebrities and individuals.
Searching for most brand names in FaceBook will yield many results and it is often difficult to differentiate between what is a squatted page and what is a genuine page. The detrimental effects for your business are to many to mention here.
With Face Book currently not taking action on this issue with their preference to leave it to the courts it is up to brand name owners to take action before they are squatted.
Net Mania recommend that your organisation promote your Face Book page on your own web site, within your organisations email signatures and by offering special promotions in your Fan Page.
Thus promoting your legitimate organisation or brand page. Also make your clients and Fan base aware of the squatted page so they do not mistaken it for your Page.
To effectively promote your Face Book Fan Page or other social media site as opposed to using the hard to remember default Face Book address, Net Mania sugest your organisation should use a sub domain from your current domain name. For example Net Mania have implemented a sub domain http://facebook.netmania.co.nz which goes to our Fan page.
