You may think you know everything there is to know about promoting your social cause on Twitter. But we’re bringing you this tutorial right from the bird’s mouth — here are Twitter Media’s recently-published Best Practices to help all types of social causes get their messages out.
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Today at 12pm ET: Follow #SmurfsDiscoverTheForest on Twitter to join the conversation between the U.S. Forest Service (@Cheecker) and Social Smurf (@SocialSmurf). Find out why the Smurfs love the forest so much and the real benefits to getting out in nature.
Teens are abandoning Facebook! They are flocking to Twitter! If you read the latest headlines inspired by the recent Pew Internet and American Life Project report on teens and social media, you might be reconsidering where to spend your energy and resources trying to reach this audience on social. Don’t believe the headlines—read the full report. Or at least my take on the full report below. Read the rest on AdLibbing.
Think terms such as “fag” and “that’s so gay” are not being commonly used anymore? Think again.
In fact, a recent study by GLSEN, the leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for all students, found that over half of students reported hearing homophobic remarks often—8 out of 10 LGBT students reported being verbally harassed at school in the last year.
We’ve just released a fascinating Twitter tracker that keeps real-time statistics on the number of times anti-gay slurs are used each day on Twitter. Together we can bring this count down to zero.
