The Really Sweet Re-Tweet

OK people you are on Twitter and you find this incredible thing I tweeted and you know you just have to share it, so you type into your tweet space RT: @socialpapillon (and you copy and paste my tweet).

For example, I tweeted that Facebook was adding an unlike button (which of course is just me playing with everyone).  WOWZA that’s big news so your re-tweet looks like this:

RT: @socialpapillon Facebook is adding an unlike button.

Again WOWZA only you just wowwed socialpapillon (which is my twitter acct for this blog).  You did not impress your followers with this WOWZA you impressed them with my WOWZA.

That being the case let’s look at how to impress your followers! Read more..

What We Need to Learn from “Weinergate”

Let’s think about Twitter and how nice it is to be a happy little blue bird on a wire.

A month ago Anthony Weiner was one of those happy little Twitter birds.  He was tweeting away and he never stopped to realize that with one single send button his feathers could be plucked for good.  He was suddenly standing naked so to speak, or in actuality, all across the world wide web.

Now that all the excitement about Anthony Weiner has gone down (sorry couldn’t resist), I thought it was a good time to write about thinking before Tweeting.

Mr. Weiner’s downfall was caused because he chose to link some surprising pictures on his main Twitterfeed rather than send is as a private direct message.  He is not the only person to have ever confused the two choices. Read more..

Getting Rid of Twitter Litter

The other day instead of using Hootsuite, which all my reader’s know I adore, I actually went to one of my Twitter accounts to see what my ratio of followers and following was and I did not like what I saw.  I have a 365 page on FB like a trillion other real estate agents do.  It is geared to a certain area and I like to follow and have followers that are more on a personal level.  I knew it was time to clean out the arteries of that particular Twitter account so I set up for an angioplasty.

It was the holiday weekend so I decided to just go name by name and unfollow.  The first to go were all my little Bieber following teens.   Bieber doesn’t live in the Greater Tampa area, so they needed to go.  I do have a friend who is his sound man in NYC. I possibly could be bribed to mention when he will be in the studio again, but then I would lose a friend.  *sigh* Read more..

Twitter Jitters? 15 Ideas to Tame the Little Bird

I wish I had one dollar for every time someone has said “I wouldn’t even know how to begin to use Twitter.”

It is the one social media platform that seems to strike terror into the hearts of many people.

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Once upon a time, I was terrified of Twitter too, but then I decided to take the bird by the wings and pluck out the unnecessary feathers  so I could get down to my basic skeletal needs in using Twitter.

I call it the basic feathers you need to begin to fly with Twitter.

1.  You do not have to read every Tweet.  It’s okay and impossible.

2.  Follow everyone who follows you, unfollow spammers later. Read more..

ConSIStency is NOT for Sissies

As you read more and more of my posts, you will see that there is a common thread – I like to play with words and ideas, and I hope what I write is coming through with some humor. I take social media marketing as the serious business it is, because it is my career. I also love to do it with humor.

Today’s topic is about being consistent but in a way in which you reap the rewards which translates into being successful.  ConSIStency is NOT for sissies.  If you make a commitment to be social then that means that you have agreed to socialize.  If you put up a Facebook page and think people are going to flock to you, think again.  They are thinking “who the flock is this person?”

If you set up a blog and post one article, no one cares.  You have to keep writing.

Success came to me after 3 years of blogging, and 2 years on Facebook, and I credit it all to 1) conversing with people (see previous blog post) and 2) being consistent. Read more..