Twitter is my favorite social media platform, and it just got better with the addition of four new features although not all of these new features are created equal:
More info in email notifications of new followers – 5 stars:
The emails announcing new followers now have a great deal more information than before. Besides a more pleasing design layout, you can learn a lot about your new follower without even clicking through to the follower’s bio.
Definitely a 5-star feature for ease-of-use.
Suggestions of who you might want to follow – 4 stars:
On your Twitter account home page you’ll now see the headline “Who to Follow” and I do appreciate having these Twitter users brought to my attention.
The reason for the 4 stars rather than 5 is because I also find this new feature somewhat distracting. If I’ve come on Twitter.com to check something specific, I have to be careful not to go off on a tangent checking out Twitter’s suggestions for me.
Shared followers – 3 stars:
When you go to someone’s profile on Twitter (whether or not you follow that person), over on the right-hand side under “Actions” you’ll see “You Both Follow.”
I give this feature 3 stars because I’m not particularly interested in knowing this about most Twitter users. But there may be times when I’ll find this useful.
Following followers – 2 stars:
And on someone’s profile (whether or not you follow that person) under the follow button you will see “Also followed by” and if you click on the word “others” you get “You follow these followers of [Twitter user]
This gets 2 stars for confusing language. What “Also followed by” really means is that these are the people you follow who are following the Twitter user whose profile you are on. I also don’t see the relevancy of this feature.
Extra tip: If there are people whose every tweet you don’t want to miss, you can get an RSS feed for their tweets at the bottom right-hand side of their profile page.
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Phyllis Zimbler Miller (@ZimblerMiller on Twitter) and her business partner Yael K. Miller (@MillerMosaicLLC on Twitter) are committed to taking the mystery out of social media so that individuals and companies can utilize the power of social media to attract more business.
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