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Social Media Image Sizes And Layouts

Thanks to the fantastic people at Lunametrics (and a hat tip to Mark at Status Social for bringing this to our attention), here is everything you need to know about image sizes across all the main social media platforms – this is a handy guide so that you can plan prior to putting your profiles together.

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Still Not Convinced About Pinterest?

I have looking into Pinterest more and more this month and have been extremely surprised at the level of engagement I am finding from this new(ish) Social Media Platform.

Let me share a few (basic) statistics I have found so far (especially when I am comparing this to Twitter) – first up is my Google Analytics Data for visits to my website:

I was surprised to see as much traffic to my website from Pinterest (yes I know it is low traffic numbers, thanks for pointing it out!). As you can see it is the 3rd highest source of traffic to my website – way ahead of Twitter & LinkedIn.

What is even more surprising (and what caused me to write a brief blog post about it) is that when you line my profile stats up on Pinterest vs. Twitter – there is NO comparison:

Imagine if I had the same number of followers on Pinterest as I had on Twitter? I have read many blog posts about how Pinterest is driving much more traffic to people’s websites than Twitter, LinkedIn & Google+ and the data I am seeing in the “early days” certainly backs up this theory.

But as we know, traffic could be seen as vanity and conversions should be seen as sanity – and when I finally look at my own “conversions” over the same period then we see an old favourite making an appearance:

So there you have it (and I am slightly tongue in cheek with this as the data wouldn’t warrant proof) but Pinterest HAS driven more traffic to my website than the other Social Media Platforms, AND LinkedIN HAS provided me with more “referral” traffic (something that many blogs have also been written about).

I will be certain to keep an eye on this traffic, especially if I can grow my Pinterest network.

What experiences and results have you found? Please leave you comments below.

Twitter Adds New “Open” Functionality

It looks like Twitter have added extra functionality to their twitter stream. At the moment it isn’t showing up for everyone (apparently) however as you can see from the screenshot below, it now allows you to see a conversation as a whole in the stream (rather than opening to the right hand side of the stream).

New Twitter Open Function

It also appears that they are using the same visual display to show who retweeted your posts – which again was even more of a pain to monitor (you had to look to the right and scroll down to see the avatars of the people who had retweeted your story).

New layout for retweeted tweets

In my opinion, this is a really good addition to the twitter website that now allows you to grab conversations and see them in a less “clunky” manner. I particularly like the retweeted tweets layout as this makes it much easier to thank people for sharing your message.

What do you think? Good? Bad? Indifferent? What else does Twitter need to do on the website itself to improve functionality?

Please leave your comments below.

Top 10 Twitter Tools According to @ZaddleMarketing

Tonight I gave a presentation at the #lincstweetmeet event on the top 10 twitter tools, covering both old twitter applications and new applications. In all honesty there were probably another 20 I could have added to the list (however I only had 18 minutes!)

Other worthwhile mentions include SocialOomph, Tweetdeck, SocialMention & Sprout Social

Do you agree?

Are there other applications you use or could recommend – feel free to share you tips below.

How To Search On Twitter

With the popularity of social search continuing to increase, we thought it would be a good time to help people “find” what they want on Twitter.

Most people have seen the search facility on Twitter – however this can be narrowed down further with a few simple commands (listed below the image)

• Standard Search: Places To Visit = tweets containing “places” “to” “visit” in any order – this is the default setting for Twitter.
• “Places To Visit” = tweets containing the exact phrase “places to visit”.
• Manchester OR Leeds = tweets containing either “manchester” or “leeds” (or both).
• Football -spanish = tweets containing “football” but not “spanish”.
• #Leeds = tweets containing the hashtag “Leeds”.
• from:AndyClaytonEC = tweets sent FROM the person “AndyClaytonEC”.
• to:lesanto = tweets sent TO the person “lesanto”.
• @jennysjams = tweets referencing the person “jennysjams”.
• “places to visit” near:”Leeds” = tweets containing the exact phrase “places to visit” and sent near “Leeds”.
• near:Lincoln within:20mi = tweets sent within 20 miles of “Lincoln”.
• social search since:2010-02-01 = tweets containing “social search” and sent SINCE date “1st February 2010″ (always have the year-month-day format when searching).
• social search until:2010-01-31 = tweets containing “social search” and sent UP TO the date “2010-01-31″. (although I am not sure how far back you can go with this, as I thought Twitter no longer kept your tweets for longer than a month or two).
• football -spanish = tweets containing “football”, but not “spanish”, and with a positive attitude.
• traffic = tweets containing “traffic” and with a negative attitude.
• traffic ? = tweets containing “traffic” and asking a question.
• tricks filter:links = tweets containing “tricks” and linking to URLs.
• news source:twitterfeed = tweets containing “news” and entered via TwitterFeed

Using Twitter search more accurately as a business can help you to find people either talking about or looking for your product or service. Equally, as a venue, you can see people who are tweeting close by to where you are – this might give you the opportunity to invite them to come and look at your venue, or to drop in for a coffee.