Be A Better Tweeter in Twitter
Tweeters from all over the world want to learn how to become a better tweeter in Twitter. How will you do this?
Firstly, you need to learn how to ‘re-tweet’. You can definitely improve your standing in Twitter if you re-tweet. When one of your followers posts an appealing article, you can re-tweet it. If you do this, most of your followers will also do the same. Just imagine all your followers re-tweeting. When they add your username to their updates, you will be exposed to many users. Be careful in re-tweeting because you might not be posting interesting or helpful topics. Make sure that you re-tweet only the good ones. How can you re-tweet? You need to copy the original tweet and write the prefix RT together with the name of the originator.
Many users use Twitter to post tweets that no one is interested about. Who cares about what you ate for dinner or what you did last night. Perhaps your closest friends will appreciate that but what about the rest of the social community? It would be better if you send out informative tweets, no nonsense. By doing so, people will think of you differently. They will know and feel that you care one way or another. If you’re addressing your tweets to one person, try to indicate it so that others will know who you are referring to.
Send replies often. Talking all day long is possible through Twitter. If you want to talk, you’d better sign up to this social site. Followers like a person who knows how to listen. You will probably find yourself laughing at dumb tweets but you must restrain yourself. Twitter is an application that allows people to communicate; so matter how funny some tweets sound, try to appreciate them and reply courteously. Most of Twitter users want to be heard on the web and if they find individuals who know how to listen, they are more interested in making friends.
In order to tweet better, you must be proactive. Find some neat articles and helpful info online; when you find one, post it. Some might re-tweet it or you can find other users that are interested in meeting you.
You don’t need to say something all the time. Try to be careful in using your automatic messages and updates because you might be pestering others with uninteresting info. You can also try using hashtags. The keywords are preceded by # and in the past months, hashtags are really hot.
Use the tool Twitpic to upload pictures to your profile page. Try to upload as many pictures as you can but choose your pics well. Your pictures can tell a lot about you and other users will appreciate. Through the pics, your followers can get to know you better. According to expert tweeters, pictures can tell a lot about you as compared to the posts to send.
Follow these tips and be a better tweeter. Why not? You have nothing to lose. If you’re in new in Twitter, these tips can be very helpful. Don’t waste time anymore. Share neat stuff to your followers and your friends. Find interesting information or perhaps post promotional materials.
It’s up to you to use Twitter to the fullest. The site offers endless possibilities. Take advantage of them and have a great Twitter experience.
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Are You Twitter-ing?
Twitter has hit the online social community by storm. It now ranks third among all the social network websites and yet it has only been about three years. Twitter was launched in August 2006 and currently it has over six million users worldwide and is expected to have over 50 million users by December 2009!
So, have you done some twittering?
Twitter is a free micro-blogging website that allows people to stay connected all the time. You can sign up by visiting ‘twitter.com’; use your name when filling out the information boxes. It would be best to provide your real information so that you can also meet real people. Go to your setting and uncheck ‘protect my updates’ if you want everyone to know your updates but if you want to limit your updates to your closest friends or followers, leave it checked.
You can now send links of your Twitter account to all your friends so that they will know that you’re on Twitter.
Even if you’re not online, you can still use Twitter. When you’re a registered Twitter user, you can now access the site through your IM or mobile phone. Again, you need to check your ‘settings’ and connect your phone and IM to Twitter.
The tweets can be sent through registered devices. If you visit your web page, you can write the tweets on the entry window found at the top of your profile page. You can also send tweets from your mobile device. You can send the SMS to 40404. The caller ID of your phone is stored on your account so the tweets can be identified. If you’re in AOL, you can send the IM to TwitterIM but if you’re in Jabber or GTalk, you can send the IM to twitter.com; no matter where you’re on, all your friends and followers will receive your tweets and perhaps, they can also receive your tweets on their mobile phone.
How will you see your friends’ messages? You need to be logged to Twitter in order to add friends. In the ‘Actions’ box, click on the link ‘Add’. The search box will also allow you to find the user page of your former classmates and lost relatives/friends. Once you add someone as your friend, you can now see the tweets but only if the profile is not private. Private profiles will need a confirmation before you can start viewing the tweets.
Check the sidebar of the profile page and see who your friends are following. Perhaps you can find interesting individuals there.
It is much easier to manage a list of your friends online rather than using your mobile phone. You cam limit phone usage to receiving tweets so that even if you’re offline, you can get updates.
There are also number sets on your profile page. The numbers are for your followers and your friends (the people you follow). The numbers can tell a lot. Celebrities and public figures often have lots of followers than friends. Individuals who prefer to watch have lots of friends than followers while those who want to communicate and establish good relationships have balanced numbers.
Twittering is really a lot of fun. Sign up now and see what your friends are doing. Don’t forget to post tweets as well so that you can stay connected. Make use of the various Twitter tools to have a more exciting twitter experience.
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8 Twitter Tools For Blogging
Today I will discuss some of the tools I have found to improve your use of Twitter in relation to your blog and a couple that have been helpful for using Twitter.
First to integrate your Twitter feed on to your blog there are a couple items you can use. Tweet My Blog will allow you to easily add your latest tweets to your sidebar. It will also send your latest blog post out as a tweet to your Twitter account automatically.
A similar plugin with a few more features is Twitter Tools,. This will also allow you to use your tweets as blog posts. Either of these will allow you to automate the process and send tweets when you update your blog along with showing your tweets on your blog.
There is another tool that will allow you to auto post your blog posts to Twitter called Twitter Feed which will monitor your blog’s RSS feed and post to Twitter when it finds new information on a regularly scheduled basis. It also works with other services like Ping.fm. This service allows you to post at one place and have it update Twitter along with your other social sites like Facebook, Friend Feed, et al.
There are a couple tools that will help you monitor and stay active with Twitter. The two that I have tried are Twhirl and TweetDeck.
Tweet Deck is much more powerful and allows you to search, set up groups and more. Again a reminder this is not a report about using Twitter and these various tools others have covered those extensively but how you can use Twitter to enhance your blogging efforts.
Another plugin that allows you to add a place in your comments for people to leave their Twitter username called WP Twitip ID. This way you can find the people who are commenting on your blog and be able to strengthen the relationship through Twitter conversations too.
It also allows your readers to connect with those leaving valuable comments which is a true win – win and another way for others to want to contribute to the conversation there.
Another tool that I have added to my blogs is Twitter This. Anyone reading my blog can submit there Twitter ID and password and it will automatically tweet to their account about your post with a link back to that post. Think this may help you get more readers?
The final tool that I have found is called Mr. Tweet. Follow Mr Tweet and you will receive recommendations of people you should be following and he will recommend you to others. This allows you to expand your sphere of influence from their recommendations.
It will save you time although you could and should be finding those worthwhile people if you are using Twitter for research and following them as you find them.
Integrate your Twitter into your other social networking by adding it to Facebook, My Blog Log, Friend Feed and any other places that allow it. That is the real leverage as like your RSS feed for your blog it allows you to be updating things at multiple sites with each tweet. Some of those can also be updating Twitter too.
It is very powerful as you may have different friends or followers at these sites than you do on Twitter and adding them allows each group to get the same information and also adds to your frequency of updating each of these sites.
A caveat for getting the most out of Twitter with your blog. Participate in ways other than just automating your blog posts. See a good tweet with information that would benefit your followers retweet it. Respond and have conversations with others there. It is called networking for a reason.
Just like your blog you are building a community or “tribe” as Seth Godin calls it on Twitter. People who look to you to deliver information they want and rely on as a credible resource.
I hope you find these tools useful in gaining more Twitter traffic to your blog. For more tips and ways to make money online you can follow me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/stirls
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Using Twitter As A Research Tool
Twitter can also be a great research tool. You can use the search at http://search.twitter.com to find the latest tweets on any topic you wish.
This can be a great way to keep track of new things happening on any topic. Each search has a feed that you can add to your favorite feed reader and automatically see all the new things happening on Twitter for that topic.
Lets say I wanted to know what is said about me. I could go to Twitter Search and get all of the latest tweets directly into my Google reader by just searching my name, then clicking the feed link.
Click where it says feed for this query. Then you can grab the url and add it to your feed reader.
You should be following your name, any product names you have to keep track of what is being said. Yes if someone replies using @MyTwitterID it will show on my Twitter time line but if someone just uses my name Chris Stirling in a tweet it won’t show up unless I am following them.
Always nice to know when someone is saying something good and even more important to know if it is bad.
Now lets apply this tool to blogging. Isn’t one of the hardest things to come up with topics that are of interest to your audience. You can get ideas and questions just from following the latest tweets on your topic.
Writers block usually disappears for me once I have a topic and this can be a great way to generate those ideas.
Tweet Later is another tool that will allow you to monitor your keywords but it will email you the results on a schedule that you set. The easiest way to describe it is as Google Alerts for Twitter. (By the way Google Alerts is something else you should be using.)
Now Tweet Later can do a lot more like auto following, allow you to schedule tweets for when you are away and send automatic welcome message for new followers too. But our topic is research and knowing what is happening in your niche makes staying current easier.
Depending on how you like information delivered either of these tools can be very helpful for keeping abreast of what is new on Twitter for your topic.
You can use these for…
- Topics you blog about
- Products you own
- Your own name and business name
- Anything else you may need or want to track including your competition
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I’m tired of these people!
You know, I’m getting tired of people running around saying how “easy” online marketing is, particularly long term.
Sure, it’s “EASY” to buy some traffic, write some articles, bookmark your web pages and buy some links to your site, but that’s only the beginning…
You see, there’s little point in doing all this work when your engine breaks down a few months later. It’s like building a sports car from scratch but not putting enough oil and petrol in the damn thing…
…sooner or later you’re going to dry up and slow down, UNLESS:
You “KNOW” how to maintain a solid relationship with your list you’re building today.
You “KNOW” how to create more and more products for the same people.
You “KNOW” how to keep your traffic flowing for years on end, despite the competition.
You “KNOW” how to stop measly competitors from stealing your PPC ads and driving your costs up.
You “KNOW” how to form really powerful Joint Ventures with bigger names in your industry.
…and all of the numerous other tasks and skills involved in this game.
Sure, you can fight on though and to be honest, if you’re a hard worker and dedicated to learning new stuff all the time, and don’t mind shuffling your business around to keep your competition and your customers on their toes, then you CAN make a good business from your niche sites.
Or maybe you want to get your head down and start planning the creation of something super duper big, a novel idea, a new piece of software or technology, a new concept…and just hope it takes off…
…or if you’re looking for something with a more secure future and something that just takes a little common sense and a plan of action, you can try this:
Click Here –> Project Archimede
Now, just like any other online business model, it will take some work and a little bit of cash, but this has to be one of the most “smartest” ways to invest your time and money for near guaranteed profits at the end of it…and the best part is, you don’t have to rely on all the noise and nonsense that surrounds the more “traditional” businesses I’ve just mentioned either.
Furthermore, this model allows you to let OTHER people worry about the long term woes of running a business online, whilst you take the cash and move onto your next exciting new project.
Here’s the link to my full review of Project Archimede where I cover the good, the bad and the ways it will work for you:
Click Here –> Project Archimede Reviewed
P.S. Most folks get bored with their chosen websites and mini businesses online, so they let them go stale. You can not only take advantage of this, but you can also escape the need to ever worry about being in their same shoes again!
