Plugin Monday: Please Update Total Social Followers!
photo credit: billaday When I was building this site with Jerry Brito about a year ago, we were hoping to drop the total ReadyMadeWeb follower count from all platforms—Facebook, Twitter, Feedburner, and Mailchimp—into the little blurb you see at the top of the right sidebar. This can be done through a bit of PHP and ...
Read MoreAddThis Buttons Cost 15 Points in YSlow Score
photo credit: kyz Last night, after working for several hours to boost the load-time of pages on the popular economics blog MarginalRevolution, I was at a loss for what else I could do to boost the site’s performance as indicated by Google’s PageSpeed and Yahoo’s YSlow evaluation tools. I had only managed to boost its ...
Read MoreA Great Twitter Unitasker: ManageTwitter
ManageTwitter does one thing and it does it well: it allows you to unfollow the people who haven't followed you back. This is really useful if you've been following a ton of a people you're just overwhelmed with tweets. This tool allows you to cut the volume of your tweets and engage only with the people who are engaged with you.
Read MoreTwitter Tool: Nest Unclutterer
Earlier this week I wrote a post about TwitBlock and The Twit Cleaner, tools for quickly unfollowing and blocking spammers on Twitter. Shortly after the post was published PJ Doland, fellow web geek and co-blogger at the Tech Liberation Front hit me up on Twitter with a link to his very own Twitter De-Spamming tool, Nest Unclutterer.
Read More2 Tools to Shut Down Twitter Spam
If you've been using Twitter for more than a few months, you've likely gained some spammy followers and you've also probably ended up following a few people you wish you hadn't. Though a light Twitter user could clear out these issues by giving their lists a few minutes of scrutiny, a heavy users is going to need some help. That's where TwitBlock and The Twit Cleaner come in.
Read MoreSchedule, Measure, and Automate Tweets with HootSuite
By combining tweet scheduling and tracking with an RSS-to-Twitter function and a full multi-column control panel makes HootSuite the most powerful and Twitter client on the market. Learn why you should be using this incredible solution for tweeting professionals.
Read MoreUsing Mass-Follow Tools to Increase Your Twitter Followers
When you follow someone on Twitter, by default Twitter sends an email notifying them that you're a new follower. Sometimes this results in someone looking at your profile, checking out your previous tweets, and following you back. So, following people can result in increasing your followers, especially if you can figure out a way to follow people on-mass.
Read MoreUse WeFollow.com to Find Your Kind of Tweeple
WeFollow.com is an excellent resource for finding people who generate and promote great content, but it can also be a great resource for finding people who you can to make aware of your presence of Twitter.
Read MoreHow-To: Grow Your Twitter Followers (Without Hiring a “Guru” and Without Becoming a Spammer)
Working in the non-profit world means I deal with a small budget for new media promotion, but I'm still expected to get the Mercatus Center's research out to as many people as possible. Twitter has been a great promotions tool because it allows you to find people interested in the topics you write about as well as folks interested in people or groups similar to you. In other words, Twitter makes it easy to find your audience and to do it quickly.
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