Archive for March, 2009
Twitter : How to get more followers
Friday, March 27th, 2009After you have followed all of your friends and coworkers, who should you follow then? Well you could do like we have already talked about and search Twitter for common interest or by location. If your like me you will want to follow more than just the people you already know. The following information is priceless it is written by Darren Rowse at ProBlogger. Here is what he has to say about how to get and keep followers:
Tweet From the Heart
While keeping in mind that everything you do on Twitter is public, make sure that your tweets are always coming from a place of honesty and transparency. Put real emotion in your tweets and your followers will stay with you. If you don’t treat Twitter as a more personal experience and spam it with sales messages, you will get unfollowed very quickly.
Give Your Followers Value
Answer questions that your followers have if you know the answer. Share helpful tips for your industry that don’t have to do with your followers buying your product. Tell a joke. Always give your followers something that they can take away from the conversation and use. They will recommend you to your friends and you will generate tweets that will encourage new people to follow you.
Tweet in Peak Times
Peak times are basically during the day throughout the work week. If you want to account for time differences in North America, aim for morning to early afternoon.
Tweet Regularly
Tweet often, but only if you have something of value to say. You should aim for a few tweets a day. Do not install a bot program to Tweet for you – your followers will figure it out and unfollow you. If you are taking off for a few days use a service like TweetLater to schedule your tweets.
Leverage your Other Online Properties
If you have something of value to offer online, like a blog or a website, share updates that you make to it or new postings that you have written. If you don’t yet have an online profile to speak of, consider building a blog or website so that you can offer your followers more value. If you complete a new website for a client, share it with your followers to get some great real time feedback and make them feel like they are part of the process.
Getting Started With Twitter #2
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Now that you have set up your account and setup your profile now you need to build a network. Twitter will allow you to import e-mail lists, contacts from instant messaging services, and you can find your friends on their search engine. The best way to build a list of interesting people is to go to the Twitter search engine at search.twitter.com and enter things that you like or that your into. Twitter will then generate all the people who have talked about the same subject on Twitter, then you can choose to follow them.
“Following” someone is the same thing as adding them as a Facebook or MySpace friend, the biggest difference is that they will not see your time line or updates unless they have chosen to follow you, as a curtsy to follow back someone who first follow you.
Once you start following someone, their updates, or “Tweets”, will appear in your “time line”, or your Twitter feed. If you find someone is no longer someone you want to follow for any reason, just “unfollow” or remove them by going to their profile page on the Twitter site; you may do this by clicking on their name. Click the arrow beside “Following” just below the top of their profile page and then click “Remove”.
To post your messages, or “Tweets”, go to your profile page and type your tweet into the ” What are you doing?”
Well you now should be able to post to your time line and know how to follow people! Next time, we will talk about what you should “tweet” about so people want to follow your post.
Getting Started With Twitter
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
If your are like I was a few months ago, you are saying: What is Twitter let alone how to get started. Twitter is the fastest growing Social Network, I have read a few reports that say in February, 2009 Twitter grew by 30%. So lets just agree that you need to be doing it and here is how to get started, we will learn as we go what “Twittering” is what the benefit of Twittering.
To sign up for Twitter, go to twitter.com and click on “Get Started – Join!”. Fill in the information they ask for, before you know it you will have your on Twitter Account. As a note if you have a screen-name or a online handle you may want to use that as your screen name.
After you have set up your account you will want to set up your profile! Twitter gives you some backgrounds to choose from. If you want to mess around with a photo to make a different background click on Change Background Color. It will walk you through the steps to change or customize it to you liking. You can change these in your “Settings”, the link for which is located under your picture on your profile page on the right sidebar. Be sure to include your website or blog URL and information about yourself since Twipeople (Twitter people) will want to know about you!
Something that many Twipeople don’t do is upload a photo of themselves. You want to do this some people see who you are and so that they can recognize you and your face. So people choose to load their logo as well if they are twittering for a business. Eather way you will have better resluts when you add a photo.
That is how symple it is to get started with Twitter. Next we will talk about how to build your followers and how to build relationships.
“Justinthesouth”
