Cultivating New Connections on Twitter With or Without Auto Direct Messages

“Hi! Thanks for following me! I’m glad to meet you! Find me on Facebook!” Sound familiar? It’s an Auto DM. We’ve all gotten them. Love them or hate them, they’re here to stay. There are myriad free and easy programs out there that will send automatic direct messages on your behalf whenever someone follows you. [...]

Charming Your Audience: Tips for Writing High-Quality, Professional, Tweets or Facebook Updates

Twitter and Facebook, with their millions of users, generate quite a lot of noise. Not everyone is on these sites to attract customers and clients. Some people are there to keep in touch with family and friends, keep tabs on their favorite celebrities, or just stay current with popular culture and trends. One of the [...]

The Unfolding Drama of Following and Un-Following…As Twitter Turns

For some, the following and un-following that often takes place on Twitter creates an imagined soap opera. The drama may be interesting for some, but it can get exhausting (at least for me) to pay any attention to the tidal flows of Twitter. As a result of my participation on Twitter, my account is followed [...]

Yes, You CAN Make Money Using Twitter: The 5 Essentials to Building Your Business Using Social Media

I received an email yesterday from a client WePost Media had assisted in the past. We had done some work on his Facebook Page and managed a Facebook ad campaign for him, but he hadn’t expressed any interest in Twitter, until now. His email went straight to the point. It read: “Question: Have you learned [...]

Friday the 13th – My Twitter Birthday – Four Years Goes by So Quickly on Twitter

Four years ago today (it was actually a Sunday in 2008) I signed up for my first Twitter account. It’s amazing to me that only four years and one day ago I had never heard of Twitter. Wow, has my life changed in the past four years! Twitter years go by faster than Internet years [...]

Parlez-Vous Twitter-ese? Or How to Converse Fluently on Twitter

My recent post, Why You Got Unfollowed on Twitter, generated a little controversy. The biggest controversy centered around the original #4, which suggested that some people (including yours truly) get un-followed for burying their replies. I shared with 15 year-old Portland tech blogger, Colby Aley, about the confusion and he set me straight. I was so [...]

Why You Got Un-followed on Twitter

In response to several requests for clarification around the matter of un-following people on Twitter I recently took a look at why people get un-followed. Some of these reasons overlap, or include each other. Items 1 – 3 are my reasons, and I use our WePost Media tools suite to locate the Twitter accounts to [...]