4 Steps to Master Consistency On Twitter – With Buffer [Review]

buffer-logoThis is a guest post by Leo Widrich.

Being determined and focused in what we are doing online is what makes you different to what I like to call “casual users”. Especially on Twitter it is getting more and more important to create a consistency of great content to build trust and interest amongst your followers.

The key is not to flood them with too many updates at once, and to neither spend hours on Twitter when you should rather be doing something else.

So let me therefore introduce you to Buffer, a new Twitter tool I have started to use recently. It will allow you to have tweets well spread out over the day, yet without overwhelming your followers with too many updates at once. Something which happened to me quite often.
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5 Easy Ways to Schedule Your Tweets

Twitter Bird LogoTwitter has taken over the Internet by storm. In the last year and half, Twitter has become one of those companies that even the mainstream media keeps track of. Not even a single day passes by without a mention of Twitter either in the news or in newspapers.

Twitter is the darling and a poster child of the new real time web and in some ways, it is the service that actually started the real time web phenomenon.

It is no wonder, then, that from journalists to students, housewives to techies, from company CEOs to marketing gurus, everyone is hooked on to twitter with different people using it for different purposes.

Whatever your purpose for using twitter is, if you’re too tired keeping up with the real time natures of tweeting, and you still want to “keep your timeline alive” throughout the day, we’ve got some really neat twitter schedulers lined up for you.
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Cadmus Organizes Your Twitter Streams, Prevents You From Information Overload

cadmus-logoIf you are a regular Tweeter and are following hundreds/thousands of people, chances are, your Twitter account is packed with plenty of tweets and you find yourselves having a hard time following each one of them. A good thing is, you are not alone in this. Most of us are suffering from this “information overloaded” syndrome, where we are receiving too much information more than we can absorb. So here lies the question: how can we filter our incoming tweets and get it to display only the useful information and prevent all the noise from appearing? Cadmus is a good solution.

Cadmus is a web app that manages your social media stream (Twitter, FriendFeed and RSS) by displaying the most relevant content and hide the noise from the rest. It enables you to see at a glance what is happening out there without having to read through each and every tweet.
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How to Remote Control Your Windows PC Using Twitter

Twitter Twitter is a cultural phenomenon these days. In the few short years of it’s existence, it has gone from becoming just the latest social kid on the block, to the service which most of us see/read even before our daily newspaper.

Different people use twitter for different purposes. Some use it to share interesting links with their friends, some use it to share funny jokes and some use it as their own public instant messenger, broadcasting intimate details of their life. All this was before some enterprising open source enthusiasts decided to come together and use Twitter for something even bigger – remotely controlling their PC.

TweetMyPC is an open source application that lets you send commands to your PC via Twitter and instruct it to shutdown, logoff, restart, download files off the internet and a lot more.

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How to Create a Video Blog on Twitter Easily

videotweet-iconVideo blogging is increasingly becoming a popular form of reaching out to your audience. Wouldn’t it be great if you can combine this with the popular social media tool – Twitter?

There are three services that are doing just that. They are helping Tweeples with video/web cameras broadcast to their followers. More and more, bloggers, podcasters, music artists, celebrities, etc. are using them to engage with their audience in a colorful way. Here are the three video tweet services that will help get you on your way:
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