Is your small business on Twitter yet? If not, it’s a great idea to create a Twitter account and start tweeting. You can reach many more new customers through social media marketing than just email marketing or other traditional forms of marketing.
But do you know how to get started on Twitter? Do you know how to make the most of your time and budget while effectively engaging your followers and increasing interest in your business? Keeping up with Twitter marketing trends can help you …

Twitter is one of the social media networks that truly allow you to marshal up an army of followers. As online influencers go, there have been more on Twitter than any other social media network. Boycotts and demonstrations have been organized from Twitter, as have big hoaxes such as the famous “Will Smith is dead” hoax. But it was funny to hear the Facebook hoax that had over 1 million people sending their condolences to Orlando Bloom. Getting more followers on Twitter is a matter of good …

Humanization offers a more personal touch to any type of Twitter activity. Your followers will welcome and appreciate it, and they will help increase your chances of having a wider social

When Twitter activity comes to a halt, it can be terrifying or deeply upsetting for social media managers and power users like you. And you must act on it as soon as

While the Web already evens out the arena for messaging and sharing content, Twitter levels it further, to an extent that you’ll have a difficult time to be noticeable in the community. Consequently, it’s harder to reach your target audience and draw their attention. So what can you do to increase your Twitter

When Justine Sacco put herself into peril – knowingly or unknowingly – her tweet and the demise of her career showed the plausible outcome of using Twitter when you have a company title. It means the public sees executives, company-title holders, and brand account managers as representatives of their respective companies, even on their personal social media

Twitter started as a personal channel to publish our thoughts and comments in short messages about various topics, but it has become a vital platform for us to find and discover digital content from other websites, such as breaking news, upcoming events, and other

About 15 percent of American adults who are online use Twitter, according to data from the Pew Research Center. This data is as of February 2012 so one can imagine that even more American adults use Twitter now.
Out of this 15 percent of American adults who use Twitter, 8 percent use Twitter every single day. It makes sense then that businesses and organizations use the world’s second most popular social network to get their message across to people.
As such, we here at Social Barrel also …

International airports are designed to sustain heavy traffic due to the arrival and departure of millions of passengers every year. On the other hand, it can be the perfect place to spend time, relax, and tweet friends on your whereabouts. Apart from knowing how friends and followers react to your imminent arrival or departure, what other things can Twitter tell about airports across the

An unfollow on Twitter means many things to many people. It causes some to recheck their last tweet, some to scourge their followers list to find the offender, and some to wallow in self-pity. Whatever our reaction maybe to an unfollow, one thing’s for sure: it isn’t a happy