Twitter is a strange platform. On the one hand, they’re in the top ten largest social networks in the world. They’re even in the top five, depending on your definition of social network. They have hundreds of millions of monthly …

Geographic location is very important for a lot of small businesses. Gaining a lot of followers is all well and good, but if you’re a small local business in California and you’re getting mostly followers from Spain, who is going …

A few years ago, there was a common bit of etiquette on Twitter frequently known as the follow-back kindness. The idea was simple; when someone follows you, give them a follow back.

This applied mostly to “normal” users, as opposed …

In the process of growing a Twitter profile, chances are pretty good that you’ve followed a lot of accounts. This will be true regardless of whether or not you’re trying to use the follow/unfollow method, or just fishing for follow-backs, …

I’ve written a lot recently about Twitter verification, primarily because they claim it’s more open to users than ever before, and they added a form you can fill out to request it. If you want to know what I think …

A few years ago, I could have told you that Twitonomy was one of the best apps available for Twitter Analytics, and you probably would have looked at me like I was crazy. I might have been, if I told …

Hootsuite is one of the better available tools for managing a social marketing presence, alongside some website marketing and blog management. It’s such a great piece of software that it’s practically impossible to talk about everything it can do all …

A million. A billion. I don’t know, why would it even occur to anyone to ask this question? I know Twitter has some odd limitations, but the like is the most basic form of engagement out there. To limit it …