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Ever feel like you’re spending all your time on Twitter but most people are not reading your tweets?

Well…

The reality is that most people are not reading your tweets…!

But… that doesn’t mean that you can’t increase the number of people who do see them.

In this article, I’m going to show you how we increased traffic from Twitter to our website by 106% in less than 30 days.

Yes, we more than doubled our traffic from our Twitter account!...

In our recent Twitter benchmark report, we analyzed over 23 million engagements (Retweets, @Replies, and favorites)  from 117 million users interacting with 145,828 brand Tweets over the course of Q4 2014.

What can you learn from these users? Below are five tips based on findings from the study. Be sure to test these tips for your own company, as they’re based off findings from the largest brands in the world, and audiences will respond differently to everyone. For more details, download the full study for free today....

We have a pretty good idea of Twitter best practices: post regularly, don't overuse hashtags, keep your tweets short enough for retweets, etc. We even know that a good mix of images and video will help boost engagement.

Yet every few months, I like to look back through my Twitter analytics to see which content performed best and I'm surprised at what I find. Some pieces of content posted to Twitter get 5 to 10 times my typical amount of retweets!...

This article covers strategies you can apply to grow your Twitter network both online and off.

These powerful tips for building a strong Twitter brand can attract literally tens of thousands of followers!

If you want more followers for your Twitter account leave a comment with your Twitter username and let us know your favorite tip for getting more Twitter followers....

If Twitter’s value is telling you what’s happening 10 to 15 minutes before everyone else, why isn’t the feature that does that best at the front and center of the app?

Two major news events unfolded this week with the kind of incremental and quickly evolving updates that made Twitter an ideal place to follow both. On Wednesday, a group of congressional Democrats staged a sit-in on the House floor to protest gun violence. And on Thursday, Britain voted to leave the European Union. Throughout both, informed insiders tweeted bits of news and information you simply couldn’t find elsewhere. But unless you were already following those people, or saw a retweet, their updates may as well not have existed; they were trees falling in empty forests. It doesn’t have to be that way.

Twitter is built on a follow model, which is great for some use cases, but also means you’re going to miss a lot of great stuff from people you don’t follow. Unless you followed certain Democratic lawmakers, you likely missed lots of action from the House floor during the sit-in this week. But there’s a solution to that: A Twitter that temporarily inserts relevant tweets from the right people at the right moment into your timeline would be a much more useful Twitter. Amazingly, this Twitter already exists but is buried puzzlingly deep within the platform’s user interface.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is fond of pitching his service as the place you go to see what’s happening 10 to 15 minutes before anywhere else. And it’s true — possessing this information is what’s helped grow Twitter to over 310 million active users. But the company has struggled to grow beyond that, largely because the information Dorsey references is very, very difficult to unearth.

Eagle-eyed Twitter users have noticed that it’s now categorizing itself very differently in the Apple App Store.

In an update yesterday, Twitter now sits in the News category rather than Social Networking. The move shifts it away from its competitors like Facebook, Snapchat and Kik. The switch boosted the app from sixth place in Social Networking to first place within News, according to App Annie.


But why? Twitter didn’t immediately respond for comment, but the change is a quick way to boost its visibility within the App Store’s rankings and bring in new users.

Before I joined Buffer, I barely had a Twitter account.

It existed by its lonesome for a few years as a placeholder for the day when my work allowed me to tweet freely. That day came when I had the privilege to join up with the Buffer team, and I dove right in, applying all the Twitter knowledge I had stowed away. And still, even with a running start, I had so much to learn.

Knowledge seldom takes the place of experience. So while I muddled through my first few weeks on Twitter—experimenting and fiddling—I noticed the many things I could have only learned by doing. Here are the big ones. Call them Twitter tips for beginners.

Maybe you can relate to some?...

Do you effectively manage your Twitter account or do you just tweet and, every so often, see how it’s going?

Are there any improvements you could make that would make Twitter more effective for you?

Here are 19 Extremely Useful Tips to Manage Twitter Effectively...