14 Twitter Tools We Can’t Stop Telling You About !

At Social Quant, we love Twitter. 

This is our bread and butter.

But using Social Quant alone isn’t going to make you a Twitter rock star – you need more!

You need great content, to engage with your followers, build relationships, analyze your efforts, participate in Twitter Chats, stay on top of trends, and enjoy all that the Twitterverse has to offer!

This is my list of Twitter Tools you can use for free or next to nothing to build your business through Twitter.

1. Buffer

Buffer let’s you schedule posts to your Twitter feed, search for content suggestions, hook up RSS feeds, and all for free. You can schedule up to 100 posts a month for free before you need to upgrade to the paid version called “Awesome Plan” for $10 a month.

2. HootSuite

As one of the leading social media management platforms, no doubt you’ve heard of HootSuite. With HS you set up streams to keep yourself organized. You can have a stream of your mentions, retweets, recent followers, your own tweets, favorites, direct messages, and more. And of course the ability to schedule your tweets for free with no limits is pretty spectacular.

3. SocialOomph

What SocialOomph does, that no other social media scheduling tool does, is allows you to create content buckets. You can create categories of content and fill those categories (buckets) with content. And then you tell SocialOomph when it should share the content from that bucket. It’s a really neat trick! Don’t be fooled when you look at SocialOomph – it doesn’t look like much but it’s definitely a good timesaving tool.

4. Sprout Social

Oh Sprout Social, how I love thee. I constantly talk about Sprout Social because it’s my favorite social media scheduling tool. It’s not as budget friendly as Buffer, HootSuite or Post Planner, but it integrates with lots of other tools with ease, keeps all my social media engagements in one Smart Inbox, and gives some beautiful, easy-to-understand reports.

5. Post Planner

Post Planner lets you schedule posts to Facebook and Twitter, but what really sets them apart is their Viral Photos feature. They let you see what images are hot right now on social media from all your favorite pages. They really do help you “plan your posts” with proven content! Using images on Twitter is a must, and Post Planner makes it easy.

6. Tweetdeck

The ability to see all the updates of Twitter in real-time is amazing on Tweetdeck. You can filter searches, monitor multiple profiles, track events and hashtags, and never have to hit the refresh button again!

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Chatty ParaKeet #SOCIALMEDIA Star !!!

Major #SocialMedia Site Funds Anti-Christian HATE Group !!!

American Family Association Alerts Reddit.com Users of Grant to Freedom From Religion Foundation

TUPELO, Miss.— The social media site Reddit.com, which allows registered users to submit content that is then ‘voted’ up or down by other users to determine the content’s position on the page, has awarded an $82,765.95 grant to the anti-Christian Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), representing one of the largest grants the Wisconsin-based FFRF has ever received.

American Family Association (AFA, www.afa.net) is alerting Reddit.com users of the grant and urging them to be aware of what their social media activities are supporting.

“Freedom From Religion Foundation regularly attacks religious liberty as a whole and Christianity in particular with a focused intent of separating all religious reference from public life,” said AFA President Tim Wildmon. “This earned them the distinct dishonor of inclusion on AFA’s recently released anti-Christian bigotry map, which exposes more than 200 organizations that regularly attack the foundation of our nation and wish to destroy religious freedom. It’s likely many Reddit.com users are not aware that their social media activity is aiding and abetting anti-Christian activity, but we hope that users will now think twice before frequenting the social media site.”

According to its website, Reddit.com, which was launched in 2005, claimed more than 151 million unique visitors last month from 212 countries viewing more than 6.6 billion pages.

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50 Tweet Ideas for when you have BRAIN FREEZE ! @KimGarst

Running out of things to say on Twitter? Join the club! It can be hard to constantly come up with new and interesting things to tweet. This article will give you 50 tweet ideas for when you have brain freeze. I hope this helps to make sure you never again run out of stuff to say on Twitter!

1. Participate in Follow Friday (Use #FollowFriday)
2. Recommend one of your favorite businesses or tools
3. Link to a new post on your blog
4. Share a random fact about your business or ask for a random fact about your followers
5. @mention an influencer in one of your tweets (great for getting noticed!)
6. Ask your followers for help, or retweet someone else’s request for help
7. Tweet a link to a survey created using Google Forms (it’s free!)
8. Share an inspiring or motivational quote (these are great for getting retweets!)
9. Share a random deep thought
10. Tweet out a call for guest bloggers

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#SOCIALMEDIA ANTI-SOCIAL?

 We think we know ever more about social media, but we continue to learn the hard way how it works in our lives, and how little we really understand.

In a tragic, confusing and heartbreaking case involving a pair of teenagers, one of them now dead by suicide, the law will be tested with social media as the context. Lawyers will argue about the line between influence and intent, succor and sociopathy, because a thousand text messages shared between a boy and a girl included some that convinced the District Attorney’s Office to file charges of involuntary manslaughter against the girl, now 18.

Five years ago this month, a 21-year-old Westport man died in a high-speed car crash a mile from his home, and the log of text messages he had been sharing with his waiting girlfriend strongly indicates his hurried state was irrevocably influenced by trying to send a message that he would soon be home. A minute after the 911 call to police reporting the fatal crash, he received a last text message from his girlfriend: “WERE R YOU!!!”

Technology has had a tendency throughout history to get ahead of us. By its nature, modern technology is the product of dozens, hundreds, even thousands of intellectual “parents,” each making contributions, involving thousands and often millions of lines of computer code. It is quite beyond human capacity to understand all of what some software is capable of.

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Sacking #Employee For Inappropriate #Tweets May Be A "Fair"

 Dismissal Under UK Law

Last Updated: 6 February 2015

Article by Mandy Perry and Rachel Easter

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Posted on January 29, 2015
by Mandy Perry and Rachel Easter

In the recent case of Game Retail Limited v Laws, the UK Employment Appeal Tribunal (or “EAT“) considered the fairness of an employee’s dismissal for offensive tweets. This is the first time this issue has been considered at EAT level. The EAT found that the dismissal was fair, even though the Twitter account was not linked to Mr Laws’ employment, and his posts were made in his own time.

The facts

Mr Laws was employed by Game as a Loss and Prevention Officer, with responsibility for monitoring and investigating loss, theft and fraud in approximately 100 Game stores across the UK. Game stores tend to have their own Twitter account so they can keep in touch with local store users, and Mr Laws followed a number of his stores (who followed him back). Ironically, the reason Mr Laws did so was to monitor the stores’ Twitter feeds for inappropriate content.

Mr Laws set up this Twitter account in his free time, and operated it in his personal capacity. He did not identify his role at Game on his account, and, unlike the stores he followed, did not use the account to communicate with Game employees or customers in a professional capacity. However, he was aware that certain stores followed him, and did not take any steps to address this.''

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Game Retail employee sacked for offensive #tweets

Wednesday, 04 February 2015 1:29

ELOISE KEATING

The UK Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld an appeal from a games retailer that sacked an employee for making offensive comments on Twitter.

The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Employment Tribunal initially ruled the employee, referred to as Mr Laws, was unfairly dismissed from his job as a risk and loss prevention investigation manager at Game Retail, after he was fired for misconduct when a co-worker complained of his use of the social media platform.

Laws initially opened a Twitter account sometime before July 2012 for personal use but chose to follow 100 Game Retail stores from his account, 65 of which followed him back. The tribunal heard over time, he started using his Twitter account for limited work purposes as well as personal and followed the stores he was responsible for managing to monitor any inappropriate activity by employees of those stores.

A co-worker complained to the company many of Laws’ Twitter posts were “offensive, threatening and obscene”, referring to diatribes he launched against various groups, including football fans, dentists and caravanners.

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The Dark Side of #SocialMedia

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Terrorists actively use social media networks to spread their propaganda and recruit fighters as well as copycats. Should social media be regulated and, if so, how?

The deadly terrorist attacks on Paris in early January triggered an unprecedented movement of protests throughout the world, from peaceful protests in Paris in support of the victims to more recent counter protests in Arab countries against the new edition of Charlie Hebdo. 2015 has barely started, and social media are already raging. The role of social media behind such movements is not new – their ability to shape social movements has long been recognised; what the recent events have sadly shown is that social media have become a cornerstone of extremist groups’ strategies. Put simply, more than being an ideological battleground, social media now act as the backbone of extremists’ organisations, with the deadly consequences that we know.

How do extremists leverage social media?

If there is one topic all experts invited to comment on the attacks agree about, it is the fact that extremists are really good - significantly better than most businesses or states - in their use of social media. For instance, Islamic State (IS) has become a master at social media communication, from content creation and communication. It publishes four to five videos per week, with content that is easy to understand, often extreme and/or practical, increasing its potential to become viral. It explains its strategy to potential recruits, using new recruits as brand ambassadors. They tweet selfies from the desert in Syria, and post photos of luxuries such as Red Bull with the hashtag #FiveStarJihad. They post threats to their home countries with emoticons and internet acronyms to appeal to the young and restless back home.

Read more at http://knowledge.insead.edu/blog/insead-blog/the-dark-side-of-social-media-did-facebook-twitter-and-youtube-kill-charlie-3804#ARLKEyZ3QW4Hpt0g.99

How to Schedule Retweets to Share at the Perfect Time

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, Without Ever Flooding Your Followers

By Leo WidrichJANUARY 14, 2015139 Comments

This post originally published on May 15, 2013. We’ve updated it here with the latest, newest information, screenshots, and videos. 

The retweet function has been a favorite way of ours to give appreciation and acknowledgment to the tweets we love. And we’ve often wondered: What happens when we love a lot of tweets? Or when we find an awesome tweet at an odd hour?

Being able to schedule your retweets gives you an awesome opportunity to show your support and engagement for other people’s tweets—without ever flooding your followers with too much content.

As we built out the Buffer product, the ability to schedule retweets was one item that consistently rose to the top of our feedback forum. And when we brainstormed this feature internally as part of our social media management suite of tools, we wanted to achieve something very unique: The ability to schedule a retweet, no matter which app, web, or mobile client you are using.

We think we’ve found a really great solution to this. Let’s take a look how you can make use of a scheduled retweet.

Here’s a quick video we put together about how the scheduled retweet works

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#BREAKING @CNBC US Centcom Hacked by #ISIS

Why law #bloggers need to have a #Twitter account By Kevin O'Keefe

I’d advise lawyers who are blogging to get a Twitter account. Not in your law firm’s name, but in your name, individually.

If not for yourself, then for the people who would share your blog posts on Twitter. Getting your posts shared on Twitter is critical for your blog’s ultimate success.

Look at the reporters and bloggers who are increasingly listing their Twitter account handles next to their names in the byline of stories and posts, along side their pieces, or in an about section.

It’s a God send for someone like me who shares a boat load of content each day on Twitter. I tweet the title (or what I craft as the story’s description), the Twitter handle of the reporter or blogger and the Twitter handle of the publication.

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Can Offensive Personal Tweets Justify Dismissal?

How to search your own tweets on #Twitter

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BY KARISSA BELL11 HOURS AGO

If you've ever wanted to look back on your prior Twitter history and find an old tweet, you know that finding posts from weeks or years past is much easier said than done.

That's because until recently, Twitter didn't provide an easy way to search old posts. Sure, you could manually download yourentire archive, but who wants to sift through thousands of tweets that way.

Thanks to Twitter's recent search update, searching your own tweets on Twitter is now both fast and easy.

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#CrimmingWhileWhite, #Twitter and the Reality of #ABORTION

But realty and truth don't matter:

BIG MOUTHS AT TWITTER and the

"REV" Al's BIG FUCKING MOUTH DO!

So since these SAVAGES WANT TRIBAL JUSTICE and Not America's -

WHY DON'T THEY GO BACK HOME?

Oh, BTW:

115,000 ABORTIONS are Perfoemed DAILY - and 3/4th of them are BLACK -

BLACK LIVES MATTER EH?

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#Twitter Simplifies Ways for Users to Report Harassment

Twitter has simplified the way that users can report abusive behavior online and has enabled observers to report coordinated harassment attacks against an individual user. Overall, the changes give users more options to describe the kinds of harassment they’re seeing online — name-calling, violent threats, etc. — and have been designed to look more like the rest of the site to make the process feel more intuitive.

·         Read the article: The Washington Post

Iranian Hackers Reportedly Infiltrate Infrastructure Firms

Iranian hackers have infiltrated some of the world’s top energy, transport and infrastructure companies over the past two years in a campaign that could allow them to eventually cause physical damage, according to U.S. cyber security firm Cylance. Aerospace firms, airports and airlines, universities, energy firms, hospitals, and telecommunications operators based in the United States, Israel, China, Saudi Arabia, India, Germany, France, England have been hit by the campaign, the research firm said, without naming individual companies.

·         Read the article: Reuters

U.S. Looking at North Korea in Sony Attack

U.S. investigators are considering multiple suspects, including North Korea, in their investigation into a cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment that knocked out the company’s computer systems for over a week, according to a U.S. national security official with knowledge of the investigation. The official, who asked to remain anonymous, told Reuters that the forensic investigation is in its early stages, and that no clear suspects have emerged.

·         Read the article: Reuters

The Illustrated History of #Twitter

Introducing #Twitter Offers

Tuesday, November 25, 2014 | By Tarun Jain (@tarunkj), Group Product Manager [16:21 UTC]

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Over the past year, we’ve thought a lot about what commerce should look like on Twitter. A few months ago, we took our first step toward this vision by giving merchants the ability to sell products directly from a Tweet. Starting today (in the U.S. only), we’re beginning to test a new way for advertisers to connect with consumers on Twitter and convert them to loyal customers in their stores, on their websites and in their apps. This feature, Twitter Offers, enables advertisers to create card-linked promotions and share them directly with Twitter users.

How it works
When users see a Twitter Offer in their timeline, they can add the offer to their credit or debit card in just a few taps, and redeem in real time by using the card at the store. Because the offer is tied to their card, redemption is seamless and easy: there are no coupons to redeem at the point of purchase. After the purchase, the cash back savings appear on their card statement within a few days.

With Twitter Offers, advertisers will be able to attribute redemptions directly to their campaigns on Twitter, so that they can effectively measure the ROI from their promotions, even when redemption happens offline. Additionally, we make it easy for merchants to get up and running because they can use their existing payment network, there’s no change to the consumer purchase process, no employee training and no new hardware or software to install. By leveraging Twitter’s robust targeting capabilities, advertisers can tailor their promotions and campaigns to the right audience, while optimizing for performance.

After users add a Twitter Offer to their credit or debit card, that card information will be encrypted and safely stored to make it easier for them to claim other offers or make purchases on Twitter in the future. We also give users the ability to remove this information from their account at anytime. For more information about our security and privacy policies, please visit our Support site.

We’re planning to work with a handful of brands to begin testing this new feature during the holidays in the U.S. Stay tuned for more information of those partners in the near future.

https://blog.twitter.com/2014/introducing-twitter-offers

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