In the meantime, yesterday I saw that Triberr offered out branding as a service and now you can create an application on Twitter and connect it with Triberr.

This now allows you to customize the “app” your tweet comes from, and the link if they click on it goes to your website instead of Triberr.  This is an awesome feature because your tweets are “showcased” as from you and your application.  This could help drive additional traffic and this branding service is something that most social media applications charge you a premium for.

You can watch my video on how to set this up in less than 5 minutes:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Or you can also follow Dino’s steps on this article to Setup Twitter Branding on Triberr as well, if you are using Triberr you should setup custom branding as it helps bring focus to your own website.

Also, if you haven’t tried Triberr yet you may want to consider it, this service lets you build “Tribes” with other bloggers and help share each other’s articles mutually.  You get full control over what you want to promote/reject and you can clearly see benefits by belonging to a strong tribe.

I am building my tribes and always looking for new members, it is completely free and if you want to join my Blogging, Technology or Gaming tribes just fill out the form below.

-Dragon Blogger

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Twitter, the famous online social networking and micro-blogging website, announced a new revamped version of twitter. The new version gets an all new look which comes with a simplified design which makes it much easier for users to use all the basic functions. Twitter has grown in leaps and bounds, with people across the globe are adding in millions to get in touch which other and follow their interests from time to time.

The new version of twitter comes with four new tabs, to make things much easier and to bring all the things that you care much closer.

Home tab, the place where you can find the tweets of the people you follow, gets easier and faster with photos, videos and conversations embedded directly in the tweets.

The next one is the connect tab, which now comes with all the recent updates about who has followed or mentioned you, retweeted or favorited one of your Tweets.

Discover tab lets you to easily searched customized information, with results now showing based on your current location.

Me tab is the new profile section, where people will get to see all your information, which includes lists, favorites, followers, photos and more. Me tab is also where you can stay current on your direct message conversations.

So the new version is not about a new look, but is indeed pretty flexible, cleaner and much faster. The redesigned twitter application is now available across the PCs, tablets and mobile phones. The desktop version is in the process of rolling out to the users, which will soon arrive.

To download the new version of twitter for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad for free, then click here (for iOS 4.0 and above). Also do note that the above mentioned changes are not yet available on the iPad version, but the company promises to release the update as soon as possible.

To download the Android version of the updated twitter, click here.

So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and update your twitter application on all your devices and get going!

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Scheduling your social media posts.

Hootsuite actually allows you to schedule your updates and Tweets ahead of time, so that you aren’t relegated to flooding the social networking sites with anything and everything you thought of while you couldn’t sleep last night during your half hour lunch break. From the Hootsuite dashboard, you are able to create as many posts as you like, without publishing them, and then schedule the exact dates and times you would like them published. Now you can Tweet even in your sleep

Speed.

Hootsuite is fast, no matter how you cut it. Even if you have ten browser tabs open and thousands of followers, Hootsuite can outperform your social media sites when it comes to speed and timeliness.

Multiple platform usage.

Hootsuite makes its dashboard available in desktop format for a wide variety of platforms, including mobile devices, Apple products, Android operating systems and Blackberries. Basically, anyone can use Hootsuite, on virtually any device, and from virtually any location.   You can even turn Hootsuite into a desktop application on Windows with the Chrome browser, just watch this video to see how to:

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Comprehensive social management.

Hootsuite enables you to completely manage a variety of tasks associated with your social networking accounts, and all from one screen. That means that in addition to creating and scheduling future posts, you can view your social media connections, organize them, separate the feeds you are most interested in from the feeds you care less about, and much, much more.

Analytics.

This is an invaluable feature for anyone who uses social media to market a website, blog or business. Hootsuite analytics delivers detailed reports about clickthroughs, demographics, referrals, post responses and more, enabling you to fully customize your social media marketing tactics based on real-time feedback.

As you can see, Hootsuite is much more than just another social networking interface. It is an invaluable tool that has completely revolutionized the way we use social media. What’s more is that basic Hootsuite service is free, and the upgraded Hootsuite Pro package costs a minimal $5.99 per month If you engage in social networking, then you can save yourself some serious time using Hootsuite . . . and make the most out of your social media marketing efforts.

About the Author:

Windy Lalata loves writing about helpful computer applications and technology. When she’s not looking for hot new softwares she can be found learning about Forex currency trading online with UFXmarkets and other groups.

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Prior to joining the Sponsored Tweets Pro program I was getting about 1-2 Sponsored Tweets offers per week at my current charge rate of $2 per tweet (which is $4 per tweet through the program since IZEA has a 50% fee).

Since joining the program I started receiving a very slightly higher number of offers around June/July/August time frame of about 3-4 per week, but the quality and content of the offers doesn’t often match the type of products/services I am willing to promote from my Dragonblogger.com account so this doesn’t translate into more earnings for me, just a few more offers.

Overall, SponsoredTweets is still my most profitable program for earning money with my Twitter account specifically.  With SponsoredTweets I was able to earn over $180 even after I declined an additional $200 in offers that I didn’t feel were a good content match for my followers.  (It shows you how picky I am when I reject more than 50% of all offers sent my way).

I also have 150 people who signed up for Sponsored Tweets under my referral ID, which provides me a 10% revenue from each sponsored opp they receive.  Now when you get paid about $1 to $2 per opp this means only .10 to .20 commission per tweet, but it adds up over time.  And some days I can get $2-$3 just in referral earnings and other days nothing.

Overall I don’t think the Sponsored Tweets PRO account was worth it for my own account with a following of around 11,500 Twitter followers.  It may be worth it for other accounts, maybe smaller accounts to get notice or larger accounts to stand out.  But since the price of the PRO account is dropped to $1.99 from the original $9.99 I am staying with it because I think the PRO will bring in more opp offers as more advertisers buy into the system.

With Sponsored Tweets consuming Magpie, we should start seeing more activity especially in the International accounts on Twitter.

I am still a big fan of Sponsored Tweets and IZEA continues to sign up new celebrity profiles on a regular basis which shows that the system is strong, I just think that it is becoming harder for smaller accounts to make earnings as more high profile accounts join and squeeze out the little guy.

I do think IZEA should make a “tiered” commission for themselves where they only charge maybe 20% for accounts charging $5 or less, and increase as user accounts charge more per tweet.  I think if advertisers could actually pay $.50 to $1 per tweet, instead of $4 when a member charges $2 the advertiser could get more bang for the buck and members will see more revenue.

Sponsored Tweets also has a decent CPC service for choosing opps without being directly chosen, but the quality of advertisers here are generally lower I have found (as well as the payout rates).

-Dragon Blogger

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With this spreadsheet, you can easily schedule as  many tweets as you want as long as they are 5 minute intervals apart.  Below is a sample image from my spreadsheet.

To build your own spreadsheet open up a new Excel File

• Know that your first column (A) will be your Date/Time column
• Your second column (B) will be your message
• Optionally you can use your 3rd column (C) and just put a URL into this column.

Just setup a custom date format for your Column A with the following by going to "custom formatting" or "More number formats (in Excel 2010)"

• Set the formatting to "d/m/yyyy hh:mm"
• Then when you type the date just type, 7/15 11:00 and it will convert to 15/7/2011 11:00

Make sure you copy this format to the rest of the column A and you can quickly start building all your dates.

When scheduling Hootsuite messages for your Twitter accounts in bulk, remember that the bulk importer will only allow "unique" messages and you can’t use the same exact message at all even for different days.  Twitter itself allows duplicate tweets as long as they aren’t back to back, but the importer doesn’t allow duplicate tweets at all even if they were separate days.  I think they should loosen this restriction and just make a unique tweet per day.

But even with this minor limitation, in literally just a few moments you can set it up so you have Tweets scheduled for a week or month in advance!

This is only 1 of many good reasons why you should be using a Hootsuite Pro account to manager your social media profiles.  You get to select which profile you want to upload your bulk tweets to when you select the file.

For those of you who want me to send you my Hootsuite Sample template, just like DragonBlogger Tech on Facebook and leave me a comment and I will email you my template excel spreadsheet.

-Dragon Blogger

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