Comments on: Answer A Reader Question: Top Tips

By: Mutiara Cinta

Mutiara Cinta — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:35:49 +0000

1. Engage your New Followers by promoting them. Make them happy to promote yours self to their friends. Usually we start with “My New Partners on #…” It works well…

2. Promote others who you didn’t know each other. I always try to do this, of course related my niche – and after then, i see my Followers bullish before i follow them back.

3. Conversation, conversation, conversation. This could be the best way to make your self exist

“Slow down to enjoy… your Life.” -The Lifehack Post

By: mariama

mariama — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:40:30 +0000

I would like to know how in the heck do you RT a person on twitter?

By: Tom Duong

Tom Duong — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:11:19 +0000

My Top 3 Twitter Tips:

1. Don’t Use All 140 Characters for Your Tweet. Rather than use all of your characters, you should leave spaces for at least a “RT @YourName” so that other users can retweet you.

2. Track Your Tweets! Your goal is to establish which types of posts generate the most interest amongst your followers. You can do this simply by using some type of URL or page analytics such as Bit.ly, Budurl.com or Google Analytics.

3. Don’t Over Tweet! You don’t want to tweet every little event in your life because there are already far too many people doing just that. If you start doing the same, you’ll have no chance of standing out in the crowd.

Happy Tweeting!
Tom

By: Titus M

Titus M — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:08:58 +0000

1. Ignore the flakes, you took a liking to a user you’re following but they never reply to your DMs or @reply, just ignore them and forget about them, it is really not worth wasting your time
2. Ignore the spams, one concrete example: all of ijango pyramid scheme followers are spamming the beJesus out of Twitter; just ignore all spam tweets, if you reply, they’ll come back at you with even more spam
3. Be creative, try and tweet something no other users are, that way you are making it worth for your followers

tweet! tweet!

By: Monica McPherrin

Monica McPherrin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:48:44 +0000

1.Try to get your own name as your Twitter ID or some form of it. It’s valuable property to have (you can always create a 2nd Twitter account with your business name). People want to connect with other people, not businesses and to help them make that connection make your bio interesting and engaging so people will want to follow you.

2. If you are using Twitter to drive your business don’t just chat about mundane things (like what you’re eating). Give people valuable content (80%) a little levity, jokes, quotes ect…(10%) and just a touch of you personally (10%).

3.Don’t fall for those “get 10,000 followers in 3 days” gimmicks. It’s better to have fewer followers but followers that want to hear what you have to say and are your “Target Market”.

By: Judy Adle

Judy Adle — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:03:21 +0000

1. Be personal. Whenever I get a follower or a DM, I click on their profile, learn something about them, and reply with a personalized tweet, mentioning them by first name! They know I’m not an automaton & they respond accordingly.

2. I find new followers by looking at the follow/followers and retweets of those who follow me. This way I find are many more with similar interests.

3. I am promoting Rev. Ike’s teachings, but I never “sell” anything. All my tweets offer
something of value: inspirational quotes, free ebook, free audio lessons, YouTube videos.

By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:26:18 +0000

When someone asks me I tell them:
-Write like Hemingway, concise, pithy, interesting. It will get better the more you post. Twitter will grow on you.
-Add a voice, not just noise. I get annoyed with constant repeated auto tweets (I just added myself….), RT over and over the same thing, @@@, quotes, bloviating. Do you really like getting the same email joke from everyone you know? If you RT from a # remove the # or a couple of @, make a comment, RT to a different audience, Maybe just your followers. Nothing wrong with, “What are you doing”? Just try to make it not so mundane. Why does the moment fascinate you?
-On the tech side- Yes, invest the time in a desktop client like Seesmic, Twhirl an/ or Tweetdeck (no need to limit yourself ). Makes all the difference. Means you can keep something open all the time for that serendipity moment. I often open a small Twhirl window while working as it’s not as distracting as the others.

By: PAS

PAS — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:23:51 +0000

So much good advice–to emphasize the best:
- Talk with the people in your Twitter stream–not at them. I joined Twitter to meet others with my interests. I like reading them, but I like discussing things with them even better.
- When you’re talking with others in your stream (@replies) reference the subject/opinion so that people following you (or checking you out) get a sense of the whole conversation.
- Fill out your profile/bio. Don’t have your ‘webpage’ link to a sales or marketing video. When I’m looking at a user deciding to follow or not, I check out the bio, the website, the
current tweet stream. No bio, or a sales website as your ‘webpage’? I won’t follow. A stream full of tweets about the details of your day and what look like one-way conversations (3-5 word @replies) don’t really interest me; I probably won’t follow. Choosing who I follow helps me manage my tweet stream (along with Seesmic), so your content has to interest me.

And the most important advice: don’t engage in or support follow-me campaigns. When you’re new to Twitter, you need to keep your stream, conversations and follower count manageable. If you can’t/don’t interact with them, those 100s of followers you gain overnight with a follow-scheme will quickly lose interest and unfollow. Instead of schemes, take your time and build good content into your stream. List yourself in the keyword directories, pay attention on FollowFriday, engage with your followers regularly, and your follow list will build gradually (but solidly) at its own pace.

By: Pereca

Pereca — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:18:54 +0000

1. follow back – it’s not important if you don’t like subjects your followers like, if they followed you, do the same, but avoid to follow back spam accounts. Use TweetDeck to filter your followers.

2. retweet – do this with useful content, but also try to help beginners, they will remember your gesture.

3. use trending topics – stay informed and get involved, here is how to hack twitter trending topics.

By: Paul Foreman

Paul Foreman — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:49:50 +0000

Check out this wonderful Mind Map about using Twitter created by Adam Sicinski at IQ Matrix:
http://blog.iqmatrix.com/mind-map/how-to-twitter-beginners-guide-mind-map

It contains invaluable tips & advice whether you are just starting out on Twitter or are a long-time user