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How To: Get Notifications When a User Tweets

Have you ever come across the problem where you follow many people and you just hate missing someone’s tweet?

I’ve had the problem quite a few number of times, where I used to miss seeing Tweets of people. These tweets could be from anyone. It could be from a celeb you adore (Justin Bieber fans listen up), or from people that start enlightening discussions whenever they are on (Eg BT).

Well, if you have the Official Twitter App on your iOS/Android device, you can enable Push Notifications to be displayed when a person tweets.

To enable it.

1. Go into the users profile for whom you want to enable tweet notifications.

2. Click the ‘contact icon’ and select ‘Turn On Notifications’

For notifications to work, make sure you have enable Tweet notifications inside the Twitter App’s Settings-Notifications screen.

Posted in Social Media

How To Improve Your Social Presence in Instagram

May 7

Posted by sandmaxprime

I have been on Instagram for almost a year now. My interest in it only picked up speed after shifting to the iPhone 4S which I found marvellous for mobile photography.

Recently, Instagram was released for Android and many people jumped on the bandwagon and started uploading photos and wondered how to get more likes or more followers.

Well here are some tips for you:

Space out your photos:

Many of the IG users upload photos in bulk (Multiple photos at one time), as a result their photos get buried in other IG users feeds resulting in less views and likes. The best way to make sure IG users enjoy your photos is by evenly spacing them out along a time period.

Statigr.am is a great tool that tells me what time would be the best time to upload my photos to get the maximum exposure and likes. This analysis is done on the basis of likes received to your previous photos.

If you use Statigr.am, these times are available under the Statistics->Optimization section.

If I look at the screenshot for my IG account in Statigr.am, I come to know that the best time to post would be between 8-10am and 6-8pm IST which would ensure that I would get maximum likes for those photos during that time.

Hash Tag photos relevantly

Whenever you upload a photo:

Upload a photo with a simple description of it.
Then add a comment containing relevant hashtags.

Hash tagging in IG is very important and allows users to find those images, kind of like how searching for #Photography in twitter would return tweets related to photography.

There are various photographic groups on IG that organize photographic challenges using hashtags.

One example of such a group would be Gang Family. Gang family on IG has the hash tags — #gf_daily #gang_family.

Each week Gang Family organizes daily challenges

Eg: Monday could be related to images based on red. Tuesday could be related to images based on Squares .

Each daily challenge has a different hash tag. Todays challenge was #gf_daily_redmonday_005 . I uploaded an image related to the theme and hashtagged it –> http://statigr.am/p/186069550326165850_2663403 . In an hours time I received 45 likes.

You can read more about @gf_daily here

Another great set of hashtags are #follow4follow, #like4like #instafollow, #jj #clubsocial, #all_shots

Interact and Engage

No one likes someone who behaves like a bot. Keep on searching photos and browsing the popular photos of the day. If you like a users photo streams then follow them. If a photo strikes a chord with you then ‘like’ it and leave some comments. People love it when others interact with them thru their photos. Keep interacting and keep building bonds.

PDStein has made amazing posts related to Instagram here . Do check them out!