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New Twitter Dashboard For Businesses

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Twitter has been planning to develop analytics tools of its own that will help in providing an option of monitoring and tracking a complete range of data that are tweeted. Now Twitter has introduced a latest tool such as Twitter Dashboard which is expected to make brands to get more Twitter presence directly without any third-party reference. Here are few points that can be helpful in understanding how this tool works. The Twitter Dashboard can be used by all the brands that are old and new in Twitter to make their Twitter experience more interesting. Even though the normal Twitter users will try this dashboard, it is the business people who will really make use of it.

1. Tracking the mentions- Once you enter the latest Twitter Dashboard you have to set it up first which includes the business you are related to and the employees in it. Then you have to create a normal Tweet dashboard that should be set-up with key terms related to your business. If possible you can also select one of the key terms recommended in the Twitter Dashboard that is based on regularity of your mentions. This tool is expected to be very useful for all the newcomers in Twitter as it can be easily followed. The search terms can also be updated during any time by just using the edit option available on top of the page in your feed.

2. Schedule and track- Now you have to select create tab to see the number of times you have sent a tweet last week. You will see a small prompt at the bottom of your tweet composer to get the suggestions about tweeting again. All the suggested options will be tailored depending upon your business. The create tab also features a new option which helps to schedule your tweets which was done by the users with the help of Tweetdeck till now. The Twitter Dashboard has an improved tracking as well as scheduling tools that makes the users to put very little effort without using any other tools.

3. Analytics- The analytics tab is the last option in the Twitter Dashboard which has been divided to make the brands easily know about their main metrics. This option will be really helpful for the Twitter users who are new to this platform. There is one option that is missing in this tab such as date filters and engagement sort. You can also see you normal screen with the complete data by just clicking View Tweet Activity located below the tweet.

4. Tracking with your mobile- The Twitter Dashboard can also be accessed using your mobile with the help of a new app. This latest tool can be of great help for all the Twitter users even if they are not regular in sending tweets. It is one of the most cleverly developed tools from Twitter that is said to be helpful in one way or the other for the users.

Five Steps To Register Twitter App

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Twitter has become one of the most popular social media network and the apps have its own interface which the programmers can use. There are few steps that must be followed while registering the twitter app.

1. Using Twitter developer’s site- The most important thing that needs to be done is visiting dev.twitter.com to create your account. Just select ‘Sign In’ option that is found at the right side of the page. Try to sign in using your twitter account for linking with the app associated with your account. After login into the account just go to twitter app website.

2. Create new application- In case you are completely new to twitter developers site, there will be no applications registered. You can try to create your own application by going to the option ‘Create a new application. Try to enter the application details which is very easy,

Select name- Create unique name for your application and make sure that is not been used by other users. The app is normally created for the personal use, so you can simply include the domain or your name into it.

Select description- There is no need to give more importance to the description as it can be changed in the later stages. This is the best way to make your app completely different from other applications and using it with unique content is very important.

Select website- Add your website which will make your application easily accessible as it is the homepage. Those who want to use the app for personal use try to avoid this option try to enter the site address where your app is hosted.

Using callback URL- The callback URL is not used by many users as it will make other users to login the app for authenticating themselves.

3. Create access token- After filling all the details till the above steps, now you will be having lot of features. But you must authorize your twitter app no before moving further. For this you must select ‘Create my access token’ option to get access to tokens, but this may take some time. The access token is useful in making the twitter application read the details in twitter and receive the data of the tweet made by you. Apart from tweets you can also see the lists, mentions and other details.  In case you want to send more tweets and use more advanced techniques, try to change the access type.

4. Create access type- Twitter app will only be used as read only, but the access type can be changed by visiting settings tab. Then select ‘Application Type’ option and choose the option ‘Read and Write’ which can give access to edit the messages.

5. OAuth settings- This is one of the most important step while registering the twitter app as it can provide access to the twitter account. You must copy the OAuth settings and keep it secured as it is required for twitter app.