Twitter has begun rolling out a new design for profile pages Friday. Many stories compares the new look of Facebook . Among the new features:
Best Tweets: Tweets that look attractive were a bit larger so that your best content is easy to find.
Tweet Posted: making it easy for your followers to see pin one of his tweets to the top of the page, what you are.
Filtered Tweets: Now you can select the timeline to see by verifying other profiles. Choose between the following options: tweets, tweets with photos / videos, tweets and replies.
The main visual difference is the addition of a large picture of a Facebook cover photo. Although essentially cosmetic changes have no impact on the main Twitter experience, schedule, they are a good excuse to update your profile. Here are some tips:
Gap "words RT ≠"
Many users - many of them journalists - always understand what kind of warning in his biographies of Twitter , but do not always make sense, given the variety of ways that we use to protect the personal tweets with the workers (Mix oft-quoted rule of thumb is a to be third of the tweets of a personal nature).
PA Social Media Guidelines [ PDF ] does not tell journalists that contain a warning, and in fact, the AP specifically states that the warning is not that journalists have less attentive to push as in the individual tweets may be biased:
"These precautions also apply if you say in your Twitter profile that retweets do not constitute endorsements. Lot of people who see your tweets and retweets will not see in your Twitter bio."
Eric Carvin social media editor for the AP that the. By e-mail to learn more about the ambivalent warning time
"Journalists of AP always on the coverage of his Twitter bio, which is pretty harmless as long as you have decided to continue our instructions," he wrote. "But surely we do not need, and I personally we prefer to use the limited space by other means."
Sree Sreenivasan wrote that the warning does not save you if you go out of bounds: "Put the warning in his Twitter Bio RT think you will have no problems common for the content of tweets, but it is an unnecessary crutch, and. their tweets from beyond. "
Ask your news organization first, of course, but if you recover space in your Twitter bio, could some of the 160 characters allowed to be better for this next tip.
: See also can The problem with retweets and how journalists solve
Include your contact
Twitter profiles contain fields for name, location, bio and website - but not your e-mail address or telephone number. Both stories run with this information center next to the author it seems silly not to be available on Twitter, also in the field of bio. (Personally, I identify sources all the time on Twitter and contact information I had through the Google search, instead of looking.)
Adding a field to the e-mail or phone in the profile settings - with options to with some of the people you follow or share anyone - be Twitter is a way could such as Facebook and not everyone screaming about.
Brian Stelter, "reliable sources" host CNN and formerly with the New York Times, has been an advocate of the provision of contact information on Twitter to possible sources, claiming that the resulting discussions are particularly useful. (Since joining CNN, Stelter deleted his phone number on his Twitter biography. Remains your Gmail address.) If you refuse to receive calls from the Twitterverse with a personal number or work try Google Voice .
Related: How to Access journalists really be?
Pin a tweet that you want to see the people
The idea of Twitter tweets may offend some purists, but why not take advantage of the new option sticky? Tweets are usually short-lived, and really did not change the heart of the platform immediacy. However, there is a way to keep their best tweets give a little more space.
His Twitter profile tells the world who you are. # newprofiles it even easier and more fun. https://t.co/YjhZjQyTnP
- Twitter (@ twitter) 8 April 2014
Most of his followers will not see your personal page often, but when they do, it is easy to control in the situation, what they see for the first time. Maybe it means longer time to fix your story, if you have a newspaper, or a property that you, if you are particularly proud of a single journalist. This is a new way to ensure that visitors to your page - albeit rarely - see something useful right away. And this is perhaps not the last tweet about what you ate his dinner.
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