After testing out an expanded 280 character limit for tweets among selected users over the last month, Twitter has now confirmed that 280 character tweets will be made available to all users (though Japanese, Korean and Chinese language tweets will maintain the 140 character limit). We’re expanding the character limit! We want it to be […]
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After news about the Texas church shooter came out, many searchers went to Google to learn more about the shooter. What they found when searching the shooter’s name in Google Sunday night, and for a period of time afterward, was highlighted tweets from Google’s Twitter partnership that showed misinformation. Last night, Google issued a statement
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Twitter’s working on a new bookmark feature which will help users keep track of tweets they want to come back to, without having to ‘Like’ them to keep tabs. The above sequence is from a demonstration shared by Twitter product manager Jesar Shah, who noted that they decided to develop the option after a recent
Twitter’s defining feature — the tweet’s 140-character limit — may soon go the way of Instagram’s square posts and Vine’s, well, everything. Twitter has started a test to double the length of tweets to 280 characters, the company announced on Tuesday. Twitter will use the open-ended test to decide whether to officially change the maximum
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As “Chief Digital Evangelist” at Salesforce, a global leader in customer relationship management technology, Vala Afshar’s job is to understand the forces behind the digital business revolution – and to share his insights with the world. Afshar’s tallest soapbox is Twitter, where the UMass Lowell alum has more than 216,000 followers and he receives about
September 13, 2017 Last month I wrote an article on A Strategic Overview For Getting Started With Twitter Ads, and now I want to follow-up with a more in-depth look at the types of promoted tweets you can create. My ultimate goal is to create a basic collection of articles anyone can follow to get
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After their latest earnings report – which showed both a decline in total users and advertising revenue – Twitter is under more pressure than ever. The micro-blog giant had shown signs of promise of late, but any hopes of a significant rebound collapsed on the back of their latest report – in which they also
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With an average of nearly 6,000 Tweets per second, what does your brand do to stand out among the crowd? Posting content in the moment is risky in the fast-paced and ever-changing Twitter environment. However, learning how to schedule Tweets can be a strategic way to save time and reach bigger audiences. Scheduling Tweets isn’t
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At WordStream, we’ve taken a trial-and-error approach to social media. After I took over our accounts about a year ago, we’ve been implementing new strategies, trying out different approaches, and combing through data to see what our audience really likes to engage with. First, let me tell you: it’s been hard. We post and tweet
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