Twitter’s New design

Twitter has been rolling out the new design, adding a variety of new features and display functions.

• Above your timeline, you find @mentions, retweets, searches
• On the left is a single, streamlined view
• To the right are the familiar followed, followers, favourites and trending features

Media Content

Embedding photos and videos, from Flickr or YouTube for example, directly on Twitter is now a lot simpler.

Rolling Out Program

These changes will roll out as a preview over the next several weeks. During the preview, you’ll be able to switch back and forth so you have time to grow accustomed to the way things work. Eventually, everyone will have the updated version of Twitter.com.

Find out more about all the changes happening on New Twitter Here

Check Your Twitter Background Branding

As the content design is a lot wider, check your twitter background image, you may want to make some changes to how any contact information or branding is displayed… can you still see/read it or is it now hidden?

It’s very tempting to just tweet about ‘you’ when you get started using twitter as a social media platform for your small business. But twitter is not all about you, you, you… it’s all about what your readers, followers or clients would like to read about.

In this video, we show you how to post your first tweet, bearing in mind that you may want to find something interesting to tweet about, even though you don’t have any followers yet. Although “this is my first tweet on twitter” wouldn’t be frowned upon to get you started.

Best Practice Twitter Tips

“Instead of approaching Twitter as a place to broadcast information about your company, think of it as a place to build relationships.” Here’s more best practice tips from Twitter to get your social media messages off to a good start.

If you’ve not opened a twitter account yet, check out our previous Social Media Twitter Video.