Twitter has the reputation of being fairly simple. It sounds easy. It is not. Twitter still comes with a couple of very useful Twitter features and functions that help you get more out of the 280 character conversations. Knowing about these Twitter features and utilizing them will let you get more out of your efforts and help you grow an engaged following. Here are 15 Twitter features you should not miss! 1. Twitter Polls Twitter Polls are a relatively new kind of tweet Twitter released in 2015. Before Twitter Polls, many people tried to make polls by counting a like as one answer and a retwee ..read more

We have written a lot about Twitter and the Twitter features you should know. But we have so far only scratched the surface about one Twitter feature that has so many valuable benefits that you should really know about it: Twitter lists. Twitter lists are not a new feature. In fact, ever since I really got familiar with Twitter and Twitter marketing, Twitter lists have been around – and I have used them ever since in one way or another. Today, I am going to show you how you can create your own Twitter lists – and give you some ideas on how to use the Twitter lists and why they are so important ..read more

Twitter is easy, isn’t it? What can be so complicated about how to start a Twitter account and share 280 characters? That’s what many think about starting a Twitter account. And then they get frustrated. And often the result is that they leave Twitter and say: Twitter does not work for me. It does not have to be like that. Twitter will work in almost any niche and for most people who try to market something. But you have to get it right. As simple as Twitter seems at first glance, there is a lot to get right before Twitter marketing success. You have to know how to start a Twitter account and ..read more

Twitter used to be the one social network that still stuck with the chronological feed. No algorithm, no ranking of posts in my Twitter feed. Just a plain listing of everything that came into the Twitter timeline. That is no more – or at least for most of us, it is not. You can still switch your Twitter account back to the Twitter feed in chronological order that we long-time Twitter users have been so fond of. But per default, the Twitter timeline now also uses an algorithm to give you what Twitter thinks is the best that you want to see. You can like it or not. Since I personally find most o ..read more

I have written countless articles about how to use Twitter to grow your business. We have published articles about starting with Twitter, how to get into growth mode, how to optimize your tweets for better results and how to use Twitter to drive tons of traffic to your blog. Still, we get a lot of questions on how to do this and how to achieve that (no offense – we love to get these questions, keep asking). But to make your Twitter life easier, today I am going to present you with a collection of the most important articles from The Social Ms about Twitter and how to use it to drive traffic an ..read more

Leads from Twitter? Really? Does that work? I have heard this or a similar remark over and over again. But the truth is that Twitter is a great place to get leads. And people are using Twitter for lead generation in almost any niche. For our first business – the publishing platform exploreb2b – we got 80k registered users based on a Twitter marketing strategy that involved lead generation via Twitter direct messages. But that is by far not the only method to get leads from Twitter. Direct messages are not the best way to go for just anybody. Conversations or direct contact may be a better opti ..read more

Twitter is simple. But it is not so simple to get your Twitter account to fame. Far more people face utter Twitter failure than seeing Twitter fame. There is a lot that you have to get right, and even more that you can do to go the extra mile and make your Twitter efforts even more successful. Here is your Twitter checklist to make sure that you have everything right and did not miss something really important. 1. You chose a good Twitter handle and name Make sure that people that „know“ you from other places than Twitter are able to find you on Twitter. That means you have to make sure that y ..read more