Oh the automation, please make it stop. If it doesn't stop soon my head just might pop. My twitter DM box is constantly full of marketing messages, automated and oh so dull. All the request to visit your site or your facebook page or the "free gifts" that you offer send me into a rage. [...]
Twitter is an interesting place. There are a few people who look like they know what they are doing. They have hundreds of thousands of followers, and every time they tweet, they get lots of engagement. You will see their retweets all over your feed. Then, your feed will fill up with retweets of their [...]
So, I have to admit that I'm a little bit sad to be writing this. My 5 Week Twitter Challenge is actually over. I've made some new friends, learned an amazing amount, and really grew my followers very quickly. However, I was not just interested in growing the number of my followers, but in growing [...]
Week four of my five week Twitter Challenge seems to have flown by. Maybe I am just having so much fun with this challenge that times goes quickly, or maybe it was because the wife and I had a vacation planned from Thursday through Sunday. While I am having a great time with this challenge, [...]
Week three of my five week Twitter Challenge is in the books, and I am really having a lot of fun doing this. I put Twitter off so long thinking that it would simply be too much work. And, while it is a bit of work, it is energizing to see my followers grow and [...]
Scheduling Retweets Since I started using Twitter consistently a couple of weeks ago, I have been very happy with Buffer as a way to schedule my posts. The one place that I was frustrated was in retweets. I did not know how to schedule retweets and it was driving me crazy. I either had to [...]