How to delete your embarrassing tweets?

Twitteris a popular social media forum that has many active users. Twitter gave birthto tweets and now we see tweets by people on various topics. At times one is not in the right frame of mind and later realizes that what they tweeted is not appropriate thus in such a situation the best thing to do is delete those tweets and take a sigh of relief.

TWTR now allows you to search your old tweets but some of these tweets from the past are so ugly that you would rather prefer them to stay buried.  Here if you are in mood of some humor so I would suggest that go to settings, scroll till you find request your archive and then click on it. Once you do so then an entire list of your tweets will be mailed on your email address as a document which you can cherish.

Thefirst process you can use to delete your tweets is the contemporary method of manual deletion. In case you remember some particular tweet which you seek to delete then just type the keywords you remember and Twitter will navigate you to the particular tweet or a list of tweets that contain that keyword. Once that is done the next thing you can do is that click on the more option, navigate to delete tweet and thus you remove the stain forever from your Twitter.

The other thing you can do if you want a complete clean sweep then a third party application is available known as Tweet Delete which would delete any tweet youwant. If you wish to delete your previous week tweets or wish to delete your one year old tweets then this is just the right thing for you that would achieve your desired cleanup within seconds.

The last and the most extreme thing one can do are to deactivate their Twitteraccounts. Although this is a very harsh initiate but would certainly give you a clean slate and a new canvas to paint your thoughts on.

Twitter to boost its E-Commerce business

TWTR is one social media platform that is immensely popular among all age groups. The company which was launched in 2006 has made a long way to success and has many potential active users that help the company to drive substantial revenues.  The company is going to new heights by pushing itself in doing business in more innovative way. The company now seeks to embark on a new venture to do business known as Twitter Offers.

This supports the company’s previous venture in the Ecommerce sector known as the buy button which allowed users to directly make transactions by paying through the buy button available on screen. Like Facebook TWTR is also a company where many entrepreneurs sell their business thus this button added to their convenience where users could simply user their credit or debit cards to make payments. TWTR itself could then benefit from the transactions made by banging revenues in their accounts. Apart from this incentives would also be given to consumers in terms of rewards on their cards.

For instance, once a user goes to buy a certain product and pays through his card a reward in the form of cash is added to his card. When he goes to any store he now does not need to present a voucher to redeem his bonus but the card will already have the payback resulting in more ease. The cash back can then be easily seen on the bank statement in general. The company acquired CardSpring earlier in 2014 and this initiate was thus this was made possible by collaborating with them.

Another benefit for businessmen is that if they start using this facility then they can directly keep a track of the popularity of their product. They will be getting direct response through the forums thus they can either amend if it is not working for them or keep the work going if they succeed.

The company has also taken security in consideration where the cards would be always encrypted and the data can always be removed whenever required. TWTR Offer is now being tested on desktops and mobile phones. If the company succeeds in delivering then eventually they will directly collaborate with brands for the promotion.

Barack Obama proud of his Twitter feed

Twitter is one of the most used social media networks of this era. From a common man to the most popular celebrity, everyone uses Twitter to either share their daily doings or anything they would feel like. There is no restriction on posting anything. Hence, from a common man to famous celebrities and sports athletes, everyone is pretty much active on Twitter. As for that matter, the United States President Barrack Obama is also a user of Twitter and an active one. Barrack Obama has over more than 12,000 tweets and 50 million followers on his Twitter account.

President Obama is proud of his huge Twitter following. Speaking at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Obama praised the school's studies on climate change, and added: “In fact, last year I even tweeted one of your studies to my 31 million followers on TWTR.” Usatoday.com further adds that on the crowd’s chuckling, Obama said “Just bragging a little bit ... I don't think that's quite as much as Lady Gaga, but it's pretty good ... That's still not bad.”

This maybe because Lady Gaga is one of the famous persons who is listen in the highest followers on Twitter and maybe back then President Obama trailed her. But currently, Barrack Obama has now zoomed past the singer as his Twitter feed approaches 50 million followers. According to the website Twitter Counter, Obama has the third largest number of Twitter followers at 49.7 million, trailing only singers Katy Perry (60 million) and Justin Bieber (56.8 million). Lady Gaga, with 42.8 million followers, is in sixth place on the Twitter Counter list, following Taylor Swift (46.8 million) and YouTube (46.5 million).

Why social forums provide a good platform for branding?

What we have recently seen is that messaging, discussion and forums are losing their importance with the rampant success of social media platforms such as TWTR, FB and LNKD. These companies have completely revolutionized the face of socializing where people now prefer to tweet on TWTR rather than opting for other contemporary platforms which were initially very popular. People specifically those who use these mediums for branding have switched to popular social sites but still none can deny the importance of places that allowed questioning and answering related to certain brands or products.

For the same reason, messaging and similar forums are extremely common. These can be in the form of websites or can be a part of a company’s sites where they provide support and assistance regarding the brand. These platforms are far better since they allow you to communicate people who are or have experienced a similar issue which popular sites cannot provide.

According to a survey conducted, 90 percent of all conversations done regarding particular brands was through forums or the messaging board. Ironically brands do not know that some social forums also facilitate these messaging boards. So here we will provide you with ways you can make your participation in forums sounder.

Follow the guidelines provided by the forum. It does not really matter how good you are at something but you need to follow the path assigned. It adhere you to the decorum of the platform and makes your contribution more effective. Following guidelines only benefits the user. It makes you more precise about the requirements and thus makes you cater to them.

Understand that the forum is not your personal space where you can brand as much as you want. One needs to understand that people don’t use it for your marketing purpose so giving space to readers is essential. If you don’t respect the forum or users liking, this will eventually lead you to a ban. Hence just don’t start spamming.

Stop being all defensive in case you have been alleged for not comprehending to the guidelines provided.  It is always better to apologize and make sure such things don’t happen again. Marketing and branding is not a one day game. So the best way to sustain the business is to be patient and avoid spamming.

Twitter empowers women

Women harassment is something that the world has not succeeded in countering despite all efforts.  Many nonprofit organizations have worked towards this cause but not much has been done so far. TWTR now wants to work on this issue, hence for this reason they have collaborated with WAM (Women, Action, and the Media) in order to play their share in making this world a safer place for women.

In order to counter this issue an online survey was established that asked women aged 18 to 25 to participate. According to consensus, many reported of harassment online. In order to counter it WAM has developed a form which harassment victims need to fill that would later be submitted to TWTR. “There are a lot of different ways that women are getting harassed and Twitter’s current reporting system isn’t catching all of them,” stated Jaclyn Friedman, who is the executive director of WAM.

The purpose of this would be to report more cases of harassment which are usually left unattended. This way, those women who cannot stand against these issues can at least record their protest against it.  These reports will reach TWTR in maximum 24 hours of the time they have been reported. Thus the actions would be immediate and would not account for delay. The purpose as explained by Friedman would be “You might report one tweet, but that may not rise to the level of harassment,” said Freidman. “But if you paint a picture of other harassment, you get a bigger story.”

Another purpose of the research would be to track the behavior of those people who are involved in harassment related activities.  This will allow the company to analyze the way these harassers behave and would eventually let them to deduce ways to counter them. This will assist them in analyzing if they follow any pattern or no.

“This must be more than just a plan to appease those of us speaking up about harassment in the short term,” claimed Emily Lindin  who is working on  The UnSlut Project, she has faced name-calling online and assaults through email or cellular phones“Threats on social media are real threats, and if those making them knew there would be consequences, they might make different decisions. As it is, reporting Twitter harassment is fruitless and blocking a user just puts a bigger target on your back.”

Thus it is now the requirement of social media giants to step up and counter harassment in order to ensure women interest. TWTR’s initiate is commendable but we need more such initiates.