Twitter 20 Top Tips & Tricks
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This document provides 20 tips for using Twitter effectively. The tips include writing a meaningful bio and adding a profile photo, engaging in conversations on Twitter, using hashtags to categorize tweets, tweeting regularly but not too often, retweeting and favoriting other users' tweets, and creating lists to organize followers by topic of interest. The overall recommendations are aimed at attracting and engaging with followers on Twitter through high-quality original content and participation in the Twitter community.
Twitter 20 Top Tips & Tricks
- 1. 20 top tips & tricks Andy Priestner / @PriestLib
- 2. Write a meaningful bio and add a good portrait photo to attract followers (ditch the egg)
- 3. If you only broadcast and never listen, people will start to notice and unfollow you
- 4. Manage your Twitter experience (and your other social channels) by maintaining them in one place
- 5. Use the search facility to locate topics that interest you and to discover (and follow) people with similar objectives
- 6. Use hashtags to group your tweets by content (and search using hashtags too)
- 7. Tweet useful content – news, blogposts, websites – and offer your own take on their value
- 8. Don’t be tempted to obtain followers by any quick route, this will not aid your Twitter presence
- 9. Tweet regularly but not too often, people might think you are addicted rather than engaged
- 10. Take part in Follow Friday (#FF) to promote good people to follow and to find new ones
- 11. Set aside time in your schedule to tweet – make it part of your routine in order to keep up the momentum
- 12. Maintain a balance between how many people you follow and how many follow you
- 13. Engage in conversations and (good- natured) debate – this is the key to getting value out of Twitter
- 14. Invest your 140 characters with wit, warmth and character - learn the art of constructing concise but interesting tweets
- 15. Show personality and humour in your tweets - no one is going to follow a Twitter account that could be run by a robot
- 17. Favourite tweets that you want to come back to explore when you have more time
- 18. Tweet at lunchtime and between 4pm and 5pm when Twitter is busiest and they will be seen
- 19. Set up keyword search alert channels, so that tweets matching your interests are gathered
- 20. Create lists in order to organise your most valuable followers into areas of interest so you don't miss their tweets
- 21. Don’t sit there like a potato! You get out of Twitter what you put in - tweet, follow and engage, and you will be rewarded for your efforts
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