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Thing 7 - Twitter



Todays 'thing' focuses on Twitter. I love using Twitter! I use it every day for work. However, I didn't know you could create lists of specific Twitter users so I had a look...

 This is a very useful feature for my Twitter account as it meant I could categorise users into two lists. One for work users and one for personal users. As I mostly use Twitter for work, most of my feed is work-related posts. By categorising the users it enables me to choose a list for the means that I am browsing. 

 Management tools such as TweetDeck and Hootsuite are very beneficial when you are running several Social Media platforms. I have been a user of TweetDeck for a couple of years. I use it to schedule specific posts for certain dates and times. I am recently a new user of Hootsuite and wow it makes my job a whole lot easier! It provides the functionality to view several communication channel streams which you can post directly to, all in the one place! Multiple streams can be added which allows you to monitor your channels in real-time without constantly switching between tabs. If you haven't used management tools such as TweetDeck and Hootsuite I would definitely recommend trying them out!
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