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To some, the Twitter trending box is one of life’s inscrutable mysteries. For others, it’s an enigma that needs to be cracked. Others still think they have it figured out, and put their conclusions to use in their marketing.

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Some time ago, we published a list of Twitter automation tools with a brief description of each. One such tool is Crowdfire, which we described thusly:

“A fairly robust social media management platform. You can analyze your followers, schedule tweets,

Twitter is a platform all about visibility. You want to be seen, so your content can be shared, so you can reap whatever benefits you’re angling for. It might be personal reputation or awareness, it might be clicks through to …

Twitter is a fantastic platform fraught with peril. On the one hand, it’s one of the best social networks available for customer service and brand engagement. On the other hand, it’s very easy to fall into a Twitter hole and …

Twitter as a platform can sometimes be a somewhat stunning reminder of just how many people there are in the world. Twitter only encompasses about 70 million monthly active users. The world itself has 7.6 billion people in it, or …

If you want to keep a Twitter account active, but you don’t want to pay for a high-end automation service, content curation engine, or a similar service, you can set something up on your own.

As with any such …

Part of running a good Twitter profile is having good, interesting content to share with your followers.  You want to keep a minimum level of activity, often 2-3 tweets per day, but that gets difficult if all you have to …

Twitter has a lot of rules for automation, which is both good and bad. It’s good in that it means they acknowledge that automation is an important part of a business strategy, and that it can be used in useful …

Do you want Twitter to manage itself? I don’t mean writing tweets and scheduling them for whenever you feel like they should go up. I don’t even mean one of those content suggestion engines, that will give you a dashboard …

If you’ve read any of my other blog posts for other sites, you know I’m generally quite cautious when it comes to automation on social media. It’s a tricky thing to get right, and I generally urge newbies to err …