The latest feature rolled out by Twitter is lists.\u00a0 This new offering by Twitter allows users to create lists of specific Twitter users.\u00a0 Believe it or not, Twitter lists can be helpful to the business web site owner.\u00a0 After all, social media has been proven to be a boon to the online business owner.<\/p>\n
How Twitter works for business<\/strong><\/p>\n As social media outlets go, Twitter is quickly becoming one of the more popular micro-blogging sites around.\u00a0 The list of businesses currently using Twitter in one fashion or another is constantly growing.\u00a0 Comcast, JetBlue, and Dell are just a few companies that realized early on that Twitter has great potential to help them get in contact with and support their customers.\u00a0 Comcast is a perfect example of how a business can use a micro-blogging service to give fast and courteous service to their existing customers as well as garner new business by word of mouth from happy and support customers.<\/p>\n How Twitter lists work for business<\/strong><\/p>\n Once a business has set up their Twitter account, it is very easy to start racking up the number of users being followed.\u00a0 At last count, the official support Twitter account for Comcast has over 32,000 users it’s following.\u00a0 Trying to keep track of that many conversations at once is completely impossible.\u00a0 So, what is the solution?<\/p>\n Simple – Twitter lists.\u00a0 Creating a list is a very quick and easy process.\u00a0 Log into Twitter and click on the \u201cNew list\u201d link found on the right-hand side of the web site.\u00a0 A new window will open up where a name can be typed in as well as the type of list it should be (private or public).\u00a0 Once the list is created, it’s then a simple matter of going through the \u201cfollowing\u201d list of the account and adding members to the newly created list.<\/p>\n One great example for a business use for a Twitter list is a company that has offices and customers across the states.\u00a0 If this business wished to group its customers by area, lists such as \u201cnorthwest_customers\u201d or \u201cOregon_clients\u201d could be created.\u00a0 Then, support teams could have direct access to specific customers based on geographic location.<\/p>\n Taking it one step further<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Twitter has made it convenient to include user lists within web sites.\u00a0 By going to the Goodies \u2013 Widgets area, one can find the easy to customize Twitter list widget.\u00a0 Once customized, the code then can be grabbed and integrated easily within a business web site.\u00a0 This widget provides a quick way to keep tabs on customers and makes it very simple for new customers to join in on the conversation. \u00a0The list widget can be placed on a front page of a web site or even within a support section.\u00a0 Either way, including this bit of coding is a perfect way to generate more business.<\/p>\n Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Including Twitter within a social media campaign is a smart move.\u00a0 Twitter is continuously adding new features to make the experience of micro-blogging easier.\u00a0 The latest addition of Twitter lists is a splendid way to monitor topics and people who matter most and a great way to keep in contact with and give support to customers and clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The latest feature rolled out by Twitter is lists.\u00a0 This new offering by Twitter allows users to create lists of specific Twitter users.\u00a0 Believe it or not, Twitter lists can…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[916,1239,804],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo-sem","tag-online-business-owner","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"views":93,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}