Take a second to answer and share the poll! If you want to find out when and how much you really do tweet, you can find out at TweetStats.com! They’ll show you your tweets per hour, your tweet timeline, and @reply stats. You may want to check that first, you may be surprised with your results!
You can select more than one time, of course. I didn’t make an “all day” option. Here is the tip from HowStuffWorks.com about Tweets During Peak Hours:
Sending messages, or twittering, during peak hours gives you the best opportunity to be seen, or, rather, read. And that gives you better odds of someone enjoying whatever messages you’re sending out and signing up as a follower. So what are the peak hours? There haven’t been any studies performed yet, but the Washington, D.C.-based Internet marketing firm Abraham & Harrison have performed some Webinars along with Twitter and confirmed that 9 a.m., noon, 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. see heavy use. It’s also an opportunity for you to experiment with your tweets and see when you’re getting the best response. If you do find that between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. in the United States, either East or West Coast time, gets you a lot of traffic and you live elsewhere in the world, structure you tweets around this schedule. It may not be the most convenient time for you, but if you’re interested in gaining followers, you need to be around when the bulk of Twitter users are around.
The results will be embedded here as well. Thanks for your participation! – @francavilla
I ask, if you had too many friend requests on Facebook – say around 10,000 – would you quit Facebook? Bill Gates did.
Yes, you know who Bill Gates is – the co-founder of Microsoft and consistently one of the wealthiest people in the world (even though Apple makes incredible, genius, revolutionary, beautiful computers, I have huge respect Gates).
Gates apparently said he “tried out Facebook” but ended up with “10,000 people wanting to be my friends”. Is that a big shocker? He explained that he had trouble figuring out whether he “knew this person, did I not know this person” and that “It was just way too much trouble so I gave it up”. Wow!
But why is it a big deal that he quit? Well, I think it’s kind of odd that someone who was such a key factor in everyday computers and the Internet couldn’t just figure out how to use Facebook. While explaining this to an audience, Gates also revealsed that he’s “not that big at text messaging” and that he’s “not a 24-hour-a-day tech person”. How can Bill Gates even say this? He’s the one that, after all, had the vision of having a computer on every desk and in every home!
Why else is it kind of a big deal? If you didn’t know, Microsoft owns a share of Facebook! Does that not seem like negative PR for Facebook? Who knows. I’m not leaving Facebook anytime soon, that’s for sure.
With summer in full swing, I’ve been receiving a lot of automatic reply messages when emailing various people and organizations. Anyone who uses email, especially in business, has received a “Vacation Reply” or “Out of Office Auto-Reply” at some point. I’ve had an auto reply setup a couple of times while on trips, and our ACCESS email account always has one (linking people to the information they may need, and letting them know we’ll reply soon).
But what if you could set-up an automatic reply all the time, to actually answer people for you? Not just a “I’ll get back to yo when I return on August 2nd” but an actual response, generated by your email program?
Well, Google (one of my favourite companies ever) came out with a Gmail Email Autopilot program that automatically responds to your e-mails, so you can spend more time keeping up with your other messaging systems such as Facebook (the more fun, social ones). Google starts off by saying, “As more and more everyday communication takes place over email, lots of people have complained about how hard it is to read and respond to every message. This is because they actually read and respond to all their messages.”
The easiest email could possibly be.
You can automatically respond to business proposals and even manage personal relationships. So, I guess you don’t have to actually check your email any more, right? Wrong!
This whole Email Autopilot thing all just a prank by Google’s Gmail this spring! Read all of the features their amazing yet fake Email Autopilot would actually have at http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html. Either way, Gmail is awesome and I highly recommend it to anyone (they make it really easy to switch too).
A website told me that the top 5 words I’ve used on Twitter are actually twitter, rt, new, iphone, and blog. Kind of depressing that Twitter is what I tweet about most, right? I’m ok though, because there’s lost of us out there, including all those people claiming to be “social media experts” (really, we’re all users!).
If you’re still not on Twitter, you should check it out, and if you don’t want to tweet yourself, just follow people that interest you. You’ll find where some of my time dissipates to here: @francavilla. And of course, like many non-profits, why wouldn’t you find us at @accesscharity and @sufc too?
Just a one-question poll to find out about multi-tasking and general Internet browser usage. I tend to always have several tabs open, and am interested to learn how this affects browser and computer performance, as well as trends of users today. Voting and sharing this online would be much appreciated!
Any comments or additional feedback you’d like to contribute, please comment.
Gates apparently said he “tried out Facebook” but ended up with “10,000 people wanting to be my friends”. Is that a big shocker? He explained that he had trouble figuring out whether he “knew this person, did I not know this person” and that “It was just way too much trouble so I gave it up”. Wow!
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