Twitter's Friendly Photo Sharing & You

I have covered some Twitter related posts before this, and recently, January 27th 2014, photos that you post on Twitter can be made even better!

Updates are already available on Twitter for Android, and coming soon to Twitter for iPhone.

Now you can crop your photos by selecting an aspect, such as a square or wide. You can rotate an image before you share it to make sure it fits nicely in your Tweet, and when you upload a photo of people, you will see a reminder to add a "@" mention to your friends so that they can also see the photo that you have shared!

With this update, if you pull down on your home timeline to refresh it and there are no new Tweets to load, you may see recommended Tweets, trending topics and suggestions for new accounts to follow. For example: in the screenshot below, you can see that a lot of people are talking about Manchester United FC. You can also tap to see more Tweets, and jump right into the conversation too!

How this impacts you?

As an individual you would now have an avenue to keep up with trends happening in and around the web. As a business you would be able to help individuals keep up with what is happening in and around what you are offering.

Is Twitter important for a Malaysian business?

Twitter is an engaging platform for any business regardless of its domain (domain being the place it resides to do business). Any business on the Internet should shift perspective that most of their digitalized business online is actually in a "country" of its own. 

Engaging customers and being able to have a meaningful conversation is priceless. Drawing on both positive and negative reviews so that you can grow together to become a better brand or offering. 

Twitter is powerful, it gives people short important texts on the latest happenings so that everyone is kept within the loop.

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Twitter expands! Images Increases Clicks.

Twitter has made some rather big changes and here is one of them. Twitter just added inline images to tweets so you don't need to click a link to see an attached image.

*please note that this only works for images that are uploaded directly to Twitter. 

Expanded Tweets. How they stand out amongst the rest?

Tweets with pictures look like this now on Twitter:

Here it looks like in the stream:

It isn't surprising that Twitter is starting to focus on images and videos uploaded to the service itself. In fact Tweets using pictures were 94 % more likely to be retweeted.

It is also found out that Tweets including Instagram links were 42% less likely to be retweeted.

How inline images have impacted us so far

We did some experiments by adding an image to our tweet and retweeting some other tweets with images to see what the results were. Using some of the statistics from our internal research it shows that there were to be more "clicks" as a result.

What this does for Twitter?

Twitter right now is riding it high, having just announced the company's IPO and things don't seem to be slowing down with new features being added.

Some people have pointed out how advertising could become a bigger part of Twitter's strategy.

How does inline images help Malaysian businesses?

Inline images help increase likelihood of a Tweet therefore it does boost more exposure, and open up new avenues for business to engage through social media.

Engaging customers through showing them exactly the product you have to offer is powerful, rather than 'just' describing it with words adds an invaluable advantage.

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3 Recent Twitter Changes You Should Know

We live in an age where we can't live without social media, and man is it tough to keep up with all the small bits and pieces that Social Media has to offer, especially when there are so many small task changes. 

Twitter, with 215 million active users also needs to constantly change to keep up with the ever changing waves.

As Twitter continues to grow, the company is making changes more often, making it easy to miss them. In case you missed them, I have collected the most recent Twitter changes to bring you up to date.

1. iOS 7 Updates

Hoorah Twitter has joined on with iOS 7, announcing a new version of Twitter for iPhone and iPad with a refreshed design.

These updates come with some new features as well, including the ability to see what is trending with music with #music on iTunes Radio and searching Twitter with Siri.

Shared Links in Safari also lets you see what links have been shared by people whom you are connected with on Twitter.

2. Twitter for Android Tablets

Twitter for Android has been around for a good time, but the Twitter experience has only just recently been optimized for Android tablets. 

The app has several unique features that were developed with the help of Samsung.

The app started out on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1-2014 Edition.

A lot of people still want to use a more powerful client.

3. Twitter Alerts for Emergencies

Twitter's users have grown organically into a place for updating breaking news and emergencies, and Twitter has caught on (thankfully) and introduced Twitter Alerts to make this process smoother and more reliable.

After releasing Lifelife last year to help Japanese users find emergency accounts during crises, the Twitter team has moved on to helping users globally.

You will need to sign up for alerts before you will receive any notifications. You can sign up by visiting twitter.com/[username]/alerts and subscribe to the account's alerts.

When you are subscribed to an account's Twitter Alert, you will either get a SMS notification as well as a push notification if you are using Twitter for iPhone or Twitter for Android.

Alerts will also appear in your Twitter timeline with an orange bell icon to distinguish them from regular Tweets.

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Twitter has grown relatively quick, and there are likely to be more changes in future.

If I missed anything, please let me know in the comments below.

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