Buffer acquires sharing plugin Digg Digg – The Complete Guide to Make The Most Of It
February 8, 2012 12 comments Tweet Buffer
Update: Mashable’s Sarah Kessler published an awesome post on Digg Digg.
Over 200 million Tweets are put out every day, together with over 4 billion items posted on Facebook.
One of the most important things for our work here at Buffer was always to help you share more efficiently and with higher impact on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere.
So as of today, I’m super excited to share that we have added Digg Digg as a new core product to help you be more awesome on Social Media. This is a big step towards changing how we share content on Social Media
Digg Digg is one of the most popular sharing plugins for WordPress blogs with over 300,000 downloads to date. It adds a nice floating bar to your blog, just like you can see on the left here. It also gives you lots of other options to add sharing buttons to your site.
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@LeoWid
The Beginners Guide To Market on Twitter In A Genuine Way
February 7, 2012 10 comments Tweet Buffer
The following post is a guestpost from Alicia Cowan, a great Social Media thinker and blogger. More about her at the bottom of the post.
You’ve probably heard or even learnt that it’s not very effective to hard sell on Twitter. Constantly pitching your own products and services will get you nowhere.
So the only thing hard selling will get you is unfollowed, blocked or labelled a spammer. Ouch!
That’s all true – but we’re not using Twitter just for fun! We’re there to promote our business too.
So, how are we supposed to convert followers into buyers if selling doesn’t cut it? Other people seem to do ok – what’s the deal?
This has got to be the biggest issue facing small business Twitter users on a daily basis.
Many of my clients complain that they don’t know what to write when faced with the blank ‘What’s Happening?’ box. Stumped. Unsure of just how to get people interested in their stuff.
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10 Top Social Media Blogs You Should Be Following In 2012
February 6, 2012 20 comments Tweet Buffer
There was a great number of new Social Media and productivity blogs, that I only discovered very recently. And whilst there content is amazing, they all have one thing in common: using the Buffer button to make it super easy for you to share more efficiently.
So I thought, I would compile a list of them and make it easy to read their best posts right from here. All of them present the absolute Social Media thought leaders for me. And here is why they all deserve to be called so wholeheartedly:
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@LeoWid
3 Quick Tips to Use Your Twitter Profile To Get More Business
February 2, 2012 5 comments Tweet Buffer
This is a guest post by Gregory Ciotti, a contributing Buffer Blog columnist. More about him at the bottom of the post.
With the rise of importance of having a brand (and personal) page on the two biggest social media platforms, I’ve always felt that much more attention was paid to high converting Facebook pages over Twitter accounts.
Of course, I can understand why, given that most new Twitter followers come from Twitter itself (getting retweeted & mentioned, etc.), and that Facebook pages allow for a landing page and lots of customization.
Even so, given the ease of creating an optimized Twitter profile, I thought it would be useful to cover 3 easy tips to setting up a Twitter profile that really converts.
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The Complete Guide To The Brand New Buffer iPhone App
January 31, 2012 44 comments Tweet Buffer
Yes, it is finally here! The long awaited Buffer iPhone App is in the App store with the latest update as of this week.
It has certainly been the most awaited feature and there wasn’t one day, someone nudged us on Twitter or via email. And that’s awesome. Having you and others on board, who tell us what they would like to see next is what keeps us going.
With Buffer, we aim to give you a new and smarter way to share your Tweets and Facebook posts. You simply add an update to your Buffer and we post them for you at the optimal time, well spaced out over the day. And now you can do it from your iPhone.
The app is built by the amazing Andy Yates (you can give him a shout @Andy383). I hope it will help you to make sharing articles and ideas from on the go more productive and much easier. Read the full article
@LeoWid
21 Facts On How Questions Get Answered On Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC]
January 25, 2012 One comment Tweet Buffer
One of the things I love about being on Twitter is the fact that it is the most open platform I know. You can quickly ask anything to all your followers and in most cases get a reply faster than googling.
Twitter has developed its own hashtag, similar to a code for answering these questions. The hashtag used for whenever people ask general questions they need help with is #lazyweb. I am sure you have come across it before.
An example I have used myself a lot in the past is to ask for tools of all sorts that people use to be more efficient. Like this:
“What Twitter tools are you using to most efficiently handling multiple Twitter accounts? #Lazyweb #ToolsChat”
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4 Tips To Combat Twitter Attacks
January 23, 2012 2 comments Tweet Buffer
This is a guestpost by @BeckyNeely, Content Queen at HelpScout, Online Customer Service with a Personal Touch. More about Becky at the bottom.
Twitter currently hosts more than 100 million active users. That’s a statistic that couldn’t show the social media site’s meteoric and influential rise over the last five years and better. Given Twitter’s reach, it’s understandable for customers to view it as an accessible forum where their opinions will be heard.
Unfortunately, I found that most of these opinions aren’t the “Your customer service rocks our world!” kind. Here is what Touch Agency [report] found:
80 percent of customer service tweets are negative or critical in nature.
Ouch, I thought. It’s ok for businesses to take a moment to indulge in a collective cringe. Then steel your resolve, and arm yourself with the knowledge of how to fight back against Twitter attacks.
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The 4 Reasons To Optimize Timing Of Social Media
January 19, 2012 9 comments Tweet Buffer
Getting the timing of your posts on Facebook, Twitter and your blog right, isn’t always easy I found. Fortunately, Dan Zarrella, Social Media Scientist has now done a great comparison of the four key things to get right in Social Media:
When should you post to Twitter, Facebook, on your blog and send emails?
He dug deep into the numbers to find out, when it is most favorable to post on each of them. Whilst we recently wrote about a great way to find your best times to Tweet, Dan also looks at other services, where timing is important.
So without further ado, here are 4 different types of optimal Social Media Timing you should pay attention to:
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@LeoWid
10 Top Twitter iPhone App Alternatives And Their Advantages
January 17, 2012 10 comments Tweet Buffer
With the launch of the new Twitter iPhone App, there were a lot of great new options made available. Ryan Sarver, head of Twitter API mentioned that this was the goal:
“In a world where Facebook and Google are competing on features, Twitter wants to focus on being simple.”
This is a great approach I believe. At the same time, it leaves lots of room for other Twitter clients to explore different Twitter features they can focus on. So I have picked out 10 great alternatives to the Twitter iPhone App, that you can check out:
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6 Incredible Examples Of How Twitter Predicts The Future
January 11, 2012 15 comments Tweet Buffer
Whilst in the past week, I wanted to focus on tips to help you get the most out of Twitter and using Facebook, there is something quite different about today’s post.
How does predicting the future with the likes of Twitter and Facebook sound for you? Personally, I think this is really fascinating.
At over 250 million Tweets sent every day, there is a hell of a lot of information out there. A few smart people have said, that analyzing all these messages can give a significant insight over what will happen in the future.
Let’s take a look at these 5 examples and see, if there is any truth in this.
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