Overlooking Twitter Features and Why You Missed Out
I have been using the wp to twitter plugin since I started my blog, but I havn’t utilized a great part of it until recently. As someone who does so much every single day, I sometimes miss a small detail. Unfortunately, this one was costly.
The feature I am speaking of is the search feature. You might be wondering what Twitter’s search feature has to do with my blog. Well, wp to twitter works like this… When you have a new blog post, it gets published as your new Twitter status. It places the preset words up with it such as “new post:” before the title, small sentence, and link. My recent change was to add #blog to the posted item so it looks like: “new #blog post:”. By adding the # to the post, it helps me get found for the word blog when others are searching it. It is not a requirement, but it definitely helps.
When you set out to retweet a post or something, you want to include a main keyword paired with the pound sign so it can be found easily. Try it now by retweeting this post with the #Twitter phrase. If you kept the title in tact, you can make it look like this: “Overlooking #Twitter features and why you missed out”. Notice the added # to the title.
Now Twitter isn’t the only thing I have been slacking on. Facebook is another issue I have since corrected. I added a fan page for this blog the other day and I plan on growing it to huge numbers.
Have you overlooked a feature on a social network?
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Where the heck did this post come from? I must be getting blind in my old age but found it through the trail of breadcrumbs from your contest post.
Ok Lucy, splain this one to me. How does someone follow all those Tweets from people?
I follow a few people (and I use the term “follow” loosely). Of those few people, I chose a select few to have their tweets be delivered to my Blackberry. Within 1 day I twittered out and turned all deliveries off.
How do people not get overloaded?
Scott Barron´s last [type] ..A Little Housekeeping Online
Twitter: Brandon_Connell
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Lol. Did you find someone else to stalk and you stopped caring about me Scott? To answer your Twitter question, you just have to get used to it. The tweets on your dashboard fly by fast when you follow a few hundred people. But it is easy to track the ones talking to you by checking your @YourName on the right side. You can also use #SearchPhrases when you tweet and when someone talks about that, you can find it by doing that search.
Nah, not stalking anyone else – I can’t keep up with you!
I’ve also been out looking for full time employment. This is my first week with no sustainable income coming in now that my unemployment was cut off.
I didn’t even see it coming. Well, not so fast. I was sure they would pass the extension bill. I still can’t believe the government just turned on people.
Do you know how hard it is to get a job as a topless dancer without notice or preparation? Well, time to go wash my thong
Twitter: Brandon_Connell
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Dude that is nasty. Honey, go put away the whips and cuffs… Scott just turned me off!
Jealous?
Twitter: Brandon_Connell
says:
You just made my wife gag…
Twitter: buildrankprofit
says:
LOL! That is beyond disgusting! (is that the two bit whore you referred to in your latest post perhaps?)
Alex´s last [type] ..Business Question: To Blog or Not to Blog.
Twitter: Brandon_Connell
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I have no idea where Scott found that. I don’t want to imagine what he had to search for to find it..
Ha, look in google images for “hairy man”. It’s at the bottom of page 2. Scary stuff!