5 tips to optimize your new Twitter profile layout

Twitter is currently rolling out a profile redesign to all users, a redesign that puts an even greater emphasis on the great Twitter content that you share and one that provides some bonus opportunities to make a branding splash.

Visual content will get a big boost. Top tweets will get a bump. And we’ll all be scrambling to find out what works best on this extreme makeover of our Twitter homes.

While you wait your turn to find your way around your new profile, you might be interested to plan ahead. We collected some Twitter tips from past stories, some psychological studies on marketing best practices, and some ideas on how each of these different factors might combine for some truly terrific tips on how to handle your new Twitter profile.

This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog.
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All your bookmarks and connection points, In one place with gobigg

GoBigg allows you to efficiently and effectively manage bookmarks of any type be it a URL, article, video, photo, a place or a person and keep them at one place. Not only that, based on the relevance and reputation of what you post, GoBigg creates an online reputation of you to add further credibility to your profile. Moreover, it integrates with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and your Google account to broadcast trending topics to your followers.

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• Easy management of your bookmarks. 
• Follow other users to see what they are upto. 
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20+ Awesome Ways to Get More Followers for Your Google Plus Business Page

Google Plus has more than one billion registered (and 359 million active) users, as well as some of the most business-friendly features of any social network, this is the time to start building out your business page, if you haven’t done so already. As additional incentive, Google Plus has been shown to dramatically improve search engine rankings, which, in itself, is a sufficient reason to join the platform. By building your brand through this social media channel, you will be able to boost your SEO efforts and increase your business’s online exposure. So, let’s jump in and take a look at some of the awesome ways to increase your exposure on Google Plus.

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Turkey Reportedly Unblocks Twitter Following Court Ruling

Turkey has reinstated access to Twitter following an order from a constitutional court ruling that the ban breached freedom of expression, according to Reuters. The ban was reportedly lifted on Thursday afternoon following a ruling earlier in the day, Reuters said, citing an official in the Prime Minister’s office as the source of the information.

Turkey lifts ban on Twitter after constitutional court ruling: prime minister's office official
— Reuters Tech News (@ReutersTech) April 3, 2014

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5 proven tips to gain more Twitter followers

Whether you are a Twitter newbie or an experienced Tweeter, there’s one question that’s always there: “How do I gain more Twitter followers?” The answer lies within these 5 quick tips that will help you increase your Twitter audience, and (why not?) become a Twitter millionaire! Show people that you’re actually on Twitter This may sound simplistic but this is the starting point of your follower growth. If you’re a business, make sure your Twitter handle is visible on your website and don’t be afraid to add it to your email signature as well. This way, you make yourself available to your customers and you gain followers that are genuinely interested in what you have to say.

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WhatsApp Is Handling A Record 64 Billion Messages A Day

That figure consists of 20 billion messages sent and 44 billion messages received. These figures don’t match because they include group messages, which means, for example that sending one message into a group chat of 10 people is 1:10 inbound:outbound.

new daily record: 20B messages sent (inbound) and 44B messages received (outbound) by our users = 64B messages handled in just 24 hours.
— WhatsApp Inc. (@WhatsApp) April 2, 2014

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Google+ and LinkedIn: More Engaged than Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest

Social discovery and sharing platform Shareaholic today released its first report examining engaged social referrals. Since many of us spend an egregious amount of time using social media, the company was interested in answering the question “What is our behavior post-click, when we actually interact with a link one of our friends shared socially?” As such, it was necessary to examine the average visit duration, pages per visit, and bounce rate for each of the top eight social media platforms. Here’s the breakdown (data is from September 2013 to February 2014) from Shareholic, which tracks 250 million users visiting its network of 200,000 publishers:


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Turkey is now blocking access to YouTube

After cutting off Twitter access within its borders, Turkey is now blocking its citizens from visiting YouTube. The latest act of internet censorship comes only one day after a Turkish court ordered the government to lift its Twitter ban and temporarily restore access to the service. Turkey is accused of blocking internet sites to stifle access to telephone recordings that reportedly reveal deep corruption within its government. The drastic steps are seen by many as an attempt to curtail protests around the corruption scandal as Turkey's elections approach. Only today, a secret recording of a sensitive, high-level security meeting focused on Syria was leaked through numerous social media sites. The YouTube ban is likely intended to contain that leak.

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Goodby Retweet button? Twitter is experimenting with replacing retweet button with a ‘share’ button

Twitter has been busy making Facebook-like changes today — adding multiple photo upload and tagging, and experimenting with a profile change on iOS — but it isn’t stopping there. Some users are reporting that the retweet button inside their iOS app has become a ‘share’ button — yes, the sacred retweet button!  CNBC’s Eli Langer first noticed tweets from users affected by the changes, who are seeing a undeniably Facebook-like experience when they try to retweet content.

Goodbye, Retweet?

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Twitter Lets You Add 4 Photos to Tweets

You can now add four photos to a single tweet and for the first time, you can tag up to 10 friends in a Twitter photo, without taking away from your 140-character count. The photos you add will appear as a four-part collage in your timeline.

Twitter Is adding more and more features from both Google+ and Facebook. This new photo sharing feature is pretty cool though, but it only works from the iPhone for now. They will add Twitter.com and Android support later.

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