Twitter
Below is a listing of our top favorite Twitter
tips and tricks. These tips help make your Twitter experience more enjoyable
and can help increase your followers.
Customize
Change your profile picture. Use a picture of yourself to
make it seem more personalized if this is your personal Twitter account.
Utilize as much of the 160-character limit Twitter BIO space
allows. Include keywords your followers or potential followers may be trying to
find.
Create your own background image. However, do not make the
image too much like an ad or sales pitch. The background image must be less
than 800kb and we recommend a size of 1600x1200 for a large image or smaller if
you plan on tiling the image or just having it on the left-hand side. Finally,
keep in mind that smaller resolutions and monitor sizes hide much of the
background.
Third-party tools
Take advantage of the hundreds of different third-party
online tools and services that enhance your Twitter experience. Below are a few
of our favorites.
TwitPic - Take advantage of TwitPic to post pictures on your
tweets. If you want to post pictures while away from the computer, use the
Twitterific app.
Qwitter - Great service that sends an e-mail anytime someone
unsubscribes from your Twitter profile and mentions a possible Twitter post you
made that may have caused them to leave.
Manageflitter - Fantastic site for managing your followers
and getting an overview of people not following you back, quiet users, and
inactive users.
WeFollow - Great website that allows you to add yourself to
a listing of Twitter users by tags you find interesting.
SocialOomph - Another great service with a collection of
free Twitter tools including the ability to schedule when tweets gets posted.
Twitter Fan Wiki Apps - Finally, this wiki has a listing of
several hundred different Twitter applications and tools for users wanting
more.
Use Twitter search
Take full advantage of the Twitter search tool. Below are
just a few tips that can help improve your search capabilities on Twitter.
Search for your website or blog URL and see if others are
mentioning your page.
Search for anything near you by adding near:"city
state". For example, typing near:"Baroda, Gujarat" club
would return current tweets that have happened in Baroda, Gujarat with the
keyword club in them.Find people whom you may enjoy following by searching for
keywords that interested you.
If you do not want tweets with links add ? -filter:links at
the end of your search query.
Need more options, use the Advanced Twitter search.
Anytime you get excellent results click the "Save this
search" button to save that search. These searches can then be found under
"Saved Searches" on the right-hand part of your profile on the old
Twitter interface or under the "Searches" tab next to your timeline
on the new Twitter interface.
*Followers*
Engage followers.
Do not follow too many people. No one wants to follow someone following thousands of people with only 10 followers.
Retweet interesting posts.
Retweet and participate in conversations with people with lots of followers.
Realize it is impossible for anyone to read every tweet.
When first joining do not follow hundreds of people, doing this may mark you as a bot.
Create useful and interesting tweets
Try to make all your tweets informative, useful, or funny.
Do not post mundane posts, e.g. eating a bowl of cereal.
Add hashtags to your tweets. For example, if your tweet is about computers, consider adding #computer in the tweet.
Tweet frequently. No one is going to follow someone they do not know who has not tweeted in months. Try to tweet a few times a week or daily if you can manage.
Do not whine or complain. Most people unfollow anyone who constantly whines or complains.
Try to make your valuable tweets during the times people will most likely see them.
Keep some space available in your tweet in case someone retweets your post.
Use special characters in your tweets.
Know the lingo
Know the Twitter lingo, these are just a few examples: @reply, Direct Message (DM), Follower, Hashtag, Retweet (RT), Trending Topics, and Tweet. See the Twitter description for a complete listing of Twitter terms and Lingo and related terms.
*Follow the masters
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