Category Archives: Twitter Tips

How (and why) to auto-follow people on Twitter

During a recent CharityHowTo webinar about Twitter, folks wanted learn some tactics to increase their Twitter followers. A simple tactic for newbies is to follow users that are already conversing about topics related to their cause. The theory is that if 50% of Twitter followers auto-follow in return, you would get 50 new followers simply by…

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Geoff Livingston on Twitter’s new nonprofit program (video)

I had the opportunity to talk with Geoff Livingston of Zoetica about Twitter’s new nonprofit program and their fundraising partnership with TwitPay. To learn more about this program, read the deets in Geoff’s Mashable post called “How Does Twitter’s New Social Good Initiative Stack Up?”

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How will Promoted Tweets impact your nonprofit?

On Tuesday, Twitter announced the release of “Promoted Tweets” that will begin to appear at the top of Twitter.com search results. Other than it’s partnership with Google and a few other deals, this is a new way Twitter seeks to monotize the site. Not like Google or Facebook ads Promoted Tweets are organic content that…

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