| SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING NEWS & TIPS BY SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERTS

With Twitter rolling out a redesigned interface, and almost 2.4 million tweets on the topic, the idea for the design imperative justified exactly that – to get people, a.k.a Twitterers, ‘talking’.

Tweetups are in the flesh meetings of people who are familiar with each other via Twitter. Frequently held in a laid-back, social setting such as a coffee shop or happy hour, tweetups are a tremendous way to meet new people in your vicinity, build relationships and exchange a few words devoid of being limited to 140 characters.

In the Twitter-verse, the term ‘influencer’ is randomly played around with, but when you try to decipher who these influencers are, or rather ought to be, a deafening silence begs to be heard.

Is betting too much on platforms like Twitter a good idea? With so much attraction and possibilities served up by social network platforms, it will be hard not to be associated with the domain.

To improve user experience, safety, and provide value, Twitter has decided to introduce it’s link service http://t.co through all Tweets on Twitter.

Behrendt and Abraham, who are marketers by profession, noticed the monetization opportunities in Twitters’ simple-to-use mechanism of tweeting. Their website ‘Pay with a Tweet’ invites people from various spectrum of professional world to market their products, services or website using this unique barter trade system.

Go to any social media marketer and they’ll tell you the same thing. It’s as if it’s been fed into their systems: Engage with your audience. Talk to them. Interact with them in real-time environment. Grind your teeth all you want, but they are right.

Majority of the social media networking sites don’t charge their users for subscriptions. The reason is quite obvious — it just won’t work. So, how do these social networking site owners actually earn their revenue from? One word – Advertisements! However, if people are not willing to pay services like Twitter and Facebook, should advertisers pay too?

Building a fan following on Facebook and Twitter is a profitable skill. However, according to various market researches executed by Jupiter and Razorfish, brands that offer coupons, giveaways and other deals have almost two times more fan following, compared to those who don’t even offer peanuts!