Leonid S. Knyshov

Unlike most Twitter activity, #FollowFriday can be tedious and should be automated
I am working on something more interesting to solve this problem, but in the interim I wanted to share my solution on #FollowFriday.
First of all, what is #FollowFriday?
#FollowFriday is one of Twitter’s most well-known memes. What you do is post a tweet about [...]

Your humble cell phone now has the power to connect you with every one of your business contacts without awkwardness or annoying them, regardless of how long ago you last communicated.
What happens to the business cards we get at networking events?
Admit it, most of us barely stay in touch after we meet at such events. [...]

On my 1280×1024 screen, Twhirl fits 13 messages at a time. TweetDeck and other tools like it show even fewer messages.
TweetDeck fits only 9 messages per screen, for example
The mobile device clients can handle maybe 7 messages or maybe even fewer. PockeTwit is 4 messages, Twikini is 5 messages.  If you continually fill that space [...]

If you have been following my Twitter stream for a while, you may have noticed I that exclusively use bit.ly for my links
If you were especially paying attention, you also noticed that I sometimes replace the Tinyurl and is.gd links with bit.ly links when I re-tweet someone’s interesting thoughts and links. I also use #hashtags [...]

Twitter Hashtags bring you new followers highly interested in your subject
What are hashtags
Hashtags are words on Twitter prefixed with the # character. Just as @ has a special meaning, so does #. I can write “I like to listen to music”. That will show up a Twitter search if I look for music. I can [...]

Should I keep everything connected to one account or should I segment my audience?
This is an interesting question because I see some of my friends who should be separating their Twitter accounts and others who should be combining their accounts.
Most articles I read about Twitter tend to suggest that I should use a single account [...]

As of this writing, Twitter has about 6 million users
There are several ways to use Twitter to reach your audience
Use it as intended for “microblogging”
Every entry is at most 140 characters long. You can share your thoughts and anyone can read them. If someone likes your comments, she can choose to “follow” your updates.
To make [...]