Tuesday, February 12th, 2013

Get Your Tweets now – how to download your tweets

 

Download a history of your Twitter Tweets today!

I could really do with a file of my tweets. It will help me to schedule future tweets by being able to recycle some of the best of our old ones. Luckily, recently, Twitter began offering this as an option. If you want to, you can download an entire file of your tweets from the first of them that you made.

To do this, log in to Twitter and go to your Settings, click Edit Profile and then click Account. Scroll to the bottom. There you will find a button Request Your Archive that you can press to get your tweets.

Wait and in a few hours and you’ll be emailed a link to download your entire archive.

This comes as a zip file which you must first unzip. There is an index.html file in the zip that you can run to view all your tweets in a browser interface. There are also other files containing them – such as a series of .csv files one for each month that you can open in Excel.

 

It’s a great way to get a permanent record of your tweets it you need it.

Helen Bradley

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Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Social marketing with Twitter – find people to follow


When you’re developing a social marketing campaign using Twitter you will want to find people to follow who are the kind of people that you want to sell your services to.

Twitter’s advanced search tool at http://search.twitter.com/advanced can help you here. In the Advanced Search tool you can find Tweets based on words that are in the tweet or which contain a certain hashtag. You can find tweets by references to people or places as well as attitude or those that contain links.

Using this you can locate people within a specific geographical location or who appear to have an interest in something that you are interested in. By being able to find these people very quickly you can then follow them in the hopes that they will follow you back and so you build your follower list.

If, in time, you find that you have a lot of people who you are following and if you suspect that not all are following you, it is time to cull your following list. Visit this post to learn more about how to quickly cull your Twitter list as a batch job so you don’t have to do it one person at a time.

When you’re developing a social marketing campaign using Twitter you will want to find people to follow who are the kind of people that you want to sell your services to.

Twitter’s advanced search tool at http://search.twitter.com/advanced can help you here. In the Advanced Search tool you can find Tweets based on words that are in the tweet or which contain a certain hashtag. You can find tweets by references to people or places as well as attitude or those that contain links.

Using this you can locate people within a specific geographical location or who appear to have an interest in something that you are interested in. By being able to find these people very quickly you can then follow them in the hopes that they will follow you back and so you build your follower list.

If, in time, you find that you have a lot of people who you are following and if you suspect that not all are following you, it is time to cull your following list. Visit this post to learn more about how to quickly cull your Twitter list as a batch job so you don’t have to do it one person at a time.

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Helen Bradley

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Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Automatic thank you for following software for Twitter


I got an automatic thank you from someone I followed on Twitter the other day and it felt neat and personal. I thought it would be a good idea to do this for my new followers too.

So, I headed over to http://twitterdmer.com and did the deed. You simply sign up with your twitter ID and password and select one of the custom thank yous or create your own.

I made my own with a link to my blog since most folks who follow me are interested in Photoshop and Photography so I want them to be able to easily find my blog too.

Click Enable and you’re done. It takes around 30 seconds and it’s personal and very cool!

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Helen Bradley

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Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Twitter: Managing following and followers in bulk


There are limits on Twitter as to how many people you can follow before you’re stopped from following any more. The limit is reached when you are following 2,000 people if you don’t have enough followers of your own. When you reach this number you won’t be able to follow any new people.

This is a limit that you might encounter if you’re involved heavily in social marketing using Twitter. To cull your accounts so that people who you are following and who do not also follow you can be removed check out http://huitter.com/mutuality/.

At Huitter.com you can type your Twitter user name and password and select from one of the options to unfollow all who do not follow you back, to unfollow everyone (if you’re having a bad day – but be careful, tomorrow you might be disappointed you did this), and to follow everyone who follows you. This later option is handy if you suddenly decide that instead of being picky about who you follow you now want to follow everyone who is following you.

Using the exclude list you can list specific people by user name from the task so you still follow some people, for example, even if they don’t follow you.

When you click Go the program goes ahead and performs the task for you. This way you can make bulk changes to your Twitter account in a very short time and painlessly. This is something which you cannot do otherwise on Twitter short of doing it all manually.

For people interested in social marketing, http://huitter.com/mutuality/ is a great tool because it lets you determine instantly who is not following you so that you can weed them out of your list freeing you up to find more Twitter followers in future.

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Helen Bradley

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Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Better Hash Tags with Tagal.us

While hash tags have been around on Twitter for ages (at least ages in Twitter time!), they’re a little bit difficult to manage. Hash tags are like this #psw and they’re used as a way to tag a post with its contents. This one, #psw is for Photoshop World – using this in our Tweets lets us share messages during the conference. Problem is to find the hashtag tweets. You can do it in Twitter search but it’s cumbersome to say the least.

Enter Tagal.us which gives you an interface for setting up hash tags and monitoring the tag content. The idea is that someone registers a tag at Tagal.us for an upcoming event. So there’s already one #PSW set up for Photoshop World. Once the hash tag has been created anyone can go to the Tagal.us site using the tag as part of the URL, for example http://tagal.us/tag/psw and view the tweets that mention this tag.

Even if you’re not following someone you’ll still see them in the list and see their tweets. This is a great way to monitor activity at a tradeshow or other event where there is lots of activity in a short period of time. You can find everything relating to the hash tag you’re interested in at one easy to find (and bookmark) location.

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Helen Bradley

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Saturday, March 14th, 2009

15 ways to size a Tweet to 140 characters

If you’re a twitterer you know Twitter gives you only 140 characters to get your message across. So you have to be short and sweet – but not so much so that no one gets your message.

Lance Ulanoff editor of PC Mag (an organisation I have had a long and very happy association with as a Contributing Editor to the mag), has a great post 14 Tricks for making 140 character Tweets.. to which I am going to add my 15th!

What are you trying to say?
Focus on what you are trying to say first and add descriptive extras later. I do a lot of posts mentioning cool free Photoshop brushes so I put Free Photoshop brushes first in my post as that’s the most important part. Then I briefly describe the set so folks know if it might be of interest to them and finally I’ll add a tinyurl link.

I know there are other link shortening services like the bit.ly that Lance mentions but, personally, I’ve had problems with using links created by just about every service except TinyURL – somehow, TinyURL has never let me down. I prefer to use up a few extra characters and stick with what works.

I also assume that folks know that if I’m putting up a link to free brushes that the brushes are worthy of notice, but sometimes I can’t help myself so I add that I like them. In future I’ll be putting in place Lance’s suggestion to do ME:They Rock type additions… ME: I think that suggestion rocks!

I’m also always stripping out extra spaces and full stops when I post. I’m a big fan of using ellipsis… if you haven’t noticed but on Twitter they just gobble up precious space. Instead I use dashes between words-they still give me the change of pace I need but don’t take up any more space than a space would.

As for one of Lance’s suggestions that you remove unnecessary vowels, I’m reluctant to misspell words by removing vowels. I am a little old school here and I prefer to spell correctly – it’s all about my brand – I pride myself on accuracy – technical and otherwise so I never want my tweets to go out in a way that might have someone look at them and think I don’t know how to spell or that I’m careless about accuracy. That said, this is my pet peeve – you make your own choices!

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Helen Bradley

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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

I ♥ Twitterkeys


I love Twitter – I love staying in touch with everyone I am following and I love to see what they’re doing. I’m also getting lots of cool information from Twitter folk – cool recommendations and contacts. In fact I’m about to start guest posting on Digital Photography School blog courtesy of a contact made with Darren Rouse through Twitter – how cool is that?

Today, CraftyChica had a note saying thank you to someone for some cute Twitterkeys she was using. Twitterkeys? What are they I asked myself?

The answer can be found if you cruise over here to http://thenextweb.org/2008/09/16/twitterkeys-enhance-your-twitter-conversations/ and grab yourself a link to them. It’s a small window you open (and leave open) which gives you some cool icons to use in your Twitter tweets. And which work in blog posts too!

I ♥ Twitterkeys.

If you’re looking for me at Twitter, you’ll find me by searching for HelenBradley – call by and say hi!

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Helen Bradley

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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Tags in Twitter – why and how to use hashtags


One issue with Twitter is that there can be things happening in Tweets that you’d be interested in reading but which you may not know about. So, for example, people you don’t follow may be talking about subjects of interest to you or, as happened to me this week, I was at Photoshop World and I wanted to read other people’s tweets from the conference although I may not choose to follow those folk on a more permanent basis.

So, when you want to share information relating to a particular and discrete topic you can use hashtags. Hashtags were, so far as I can understand, first supported via a website called hashtags.org. Provided you add hashtags to your Twitter posts and you Follow hashtags on Twitter, hashtags.org tracks the tweets that you post that have hashtags in them and makes them easy to find. A hashtag is simply the hash character (#) put in front of a tag name.

So, for example, at Photoshop World in Las Vegas, the tag #psworld was used to discuss things relating to the conference by attendees using Twitter. By following hashtags, any posts that you created that had the #psworld tag in them would be tracked automatically by hashtags.org and could be viewed on that site or followed using an RSS feed. However, it seems that although this should work in theory, it didn’t in practice and still the #psworld tag doesn’t appear in hashtags.

The simpler solution is to use Twitter itself to show you the tags. Simply visit http://search.twitter.com and in the search field type the tag you want to follow, for example #psworld and click Search. Now you’ll see all the tweets which include that tag. You can also grab a RSS feed for this query by clicking the RSS button in the search window.

When you track the hashtag information on either Twitter or Hashtags.org you can read tweets posted by anyone using that tag whether or not they are someone you typically follow. Of course, if you find someone posting regularly using a tag that you’re interested in then you can click their icon to see who they are and to follow them if desired.

So, here’s what I suggest:

1 Follow hashtags on Twitter (optional since its performance seems to be erratic)

2 Add #tag_name to your Twitter posts

3 Use search.twitter.com to find and read other’s posts on a particular topic.

4 If you’re attending a conference or tradeshow, try to find the hashtags used by other attendees so you can keep in touch with what’s happening.

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Helen Bradley

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