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 [...]

Clean Up Your Twitter Bio! – Working Magic with 160 Characters

It is a paltry 160 characters, but your Twitter bio is one of the most important aspects of your Twitter profile. More often than not it is the first thing a potential follower will notice about your profile. If it’s uninteresting, they won’t bother to read your tweets, and definitely won’t follow you. What are [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]