Tag: Follow
5 Twitter Types To Avoid & Enhance Your Twitter Experience
We have all run into this problem. We get tricked, duped, or slighted into following people on Twitter, and we don’t notice until we start seeing their content…They turn out to be low quality, terrible tweets that you couldn’t pay people to read. That's when you realize you have been tricked. Nobody ...
Why It’s Important To Complete Your Twitter Profile
What's the first thing that pops into your head when you think about following someone on Twitter? Their profile, right? You want to see what the person is about, and if they posted a personal avatar of themselves as well. When you take the time to fill out your bio on Twitter and write little bits ...
Twitter To Launch Redesigned Tweet & Follow Buttons
Twitter has been sporting the blueish Tweet button since it was launched, and nothing has really been changed with it since. I am sure that most people who have been on Twitter since the social networking giant's early days know that in the beginning, Twitter used "Update" instead of "Tweet" to send ...
Twitter Friends: What Are The Odds You Exist & Found Each Other?
Yesterday when I was on Twitter having a good 'ol time tweeting it up with my friends, I started wondering what the odds were that those particular people decided to follow me on Twitter and that we became friends. There are hundreds of millions of people on Twitter, so what are the chances that any ...
The $17,000 Tweet: Don’t Ever Underestimate Twitter
This is such a fun story about using Twitter, making bets and following through. A few days ago, the person behind @poultrykeeper sent the tweet you see below after his boss insisted Twitter is a waste of time. He made a bet with him about how many times his tweet would get retweeted.
I've been o ...
Happy Birthday Twitter: An Infographic Of Twitter Milestones
Can you believe our beloved Twitter is five years old? I remember when she was just a newborn, and we all nervously embraced her. The future of Twitter was unknown at that time, but we were adventurous. Little did we know how she would completely change our lives. She certainly didn't disappoint us, ...
How To: Not Be Boring On Twitter
Just like everyone else, when I first got on Twitter in March of 2009, I didn't know what to tweet. I followed a few people and just watched them. I didn't tweet anything for a few days because I was so nervous about it. Looking back, it seems kind of silly. A few weeks into my life on Twitter, I so ...
How To Use Twitter: A Simple Infographic & Slideshow
Those who have been on Twitter every day for a few years now like me will probably agree that Twitter is a different place to hang out now than it used to be. Back in the day, Twitter was a small community of geeks, and we were all a very tight knit group of friends. Since then, Twitter has evolved ...
Social Media Tattoo: Put Facebook Friends On Your Arm
[Update: Too bad this tattoo turned out to be fake! I was really hoping this girl was for real.] I realize that this story is on every single major blog in the world today, but if there was ever anything that deserved to be on Bit Rebels, this is it. I just couldn't resist writing about it. This has ...
Tweet Topic Explorer: Exciting New Way To Find Follows
The way that Twitter works makes it quite easy to follow people once you have found them. The short bursts of updates give us a glimpse into the world of others without having to spend hours reading through blog posts and updates. However, where Twitter is so great, it also falls short, and the anno ...
Real Birds Are Now Tweeting On Twitter (Really!)
When I was young, I found a sparrow that had fallen out of his nest. His mother left him on the concrete. He was only a few days old, and hadn't grown any feathers yet. I nursed him back to health, and at the end of the summer, I tried several times to set him free. He wouldn't fly away, so I decide ...
5 Reasons Your Twitter DMs Are Being Ignored
Since I've been on Twitter since 2008, I've truly been able to benefit from the social networking platform. The majority of information I know today is a direct result of the many hours I've spent reading the links shared by people I follow on Twitter. I also enjoy conversing with my Twitter friends ...
Tweets From Japan: Shining Hope Into The Darkness
It seems like I've started dozens of articles with this same sentence: I love Twitter. However, each day I find more reasons why Twitter is such a fabulous place to hang out. Whenever there are tragedies happening around the world, I can always find some sort of peace and comfort on Twitter. Have yo ...
How To: Be Awesome On Twitter
I've written 1,200 articles here on Bit Rebels, and many of them are about Twitter. It's a topic that never gets old to me. When I started on Twitter back in 2009, there weren't very many articles that explained the whole Twitter dynamic. Those of us who were on the site regularly just had to fig ...
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Are We REALLY Addicted To Social Media? [Infographic]
We see it in tweets all the time. People send things like, "I'm a Twitterholic" or "I invite you to a Twitterholic Anonymous meeting." Most of us, or at least most of the people I know, either love their Facebook or their Twitter, and they check in on those sites every day.
I've always thought ...