Here’s the deal. When you go to make a tweet on twitter” rel=”tag”>twitter, you have 140 characters to work with.
That’s not a lot. In fact, it’s next to nothing.
That creates a little pressure for you to do things in the most efficient way possible. The difference between good Twitter users an those who are really getting good mileage out of their participation is often the ability to adjust to the hyper-tight format.
Here are a few tips.
First, don’t even think about multi-part Tweets. People Read the rest of this entry »
twitter is a micro-blogging platform, right? Well, that must mean it’s really nothing more than a tiny blog.
Structurally, that’s true. Your Twitter URL does read a little like a tiny blog. It catalogs your tweets” rel=”tag”>tweets chronologically and presents them that way. The similarities, however, end there.
Here are three reasons why Twitter use doesn’t really represent blogging.
First, there is a much-heightened level of interaction. As such, your Tweets are often part of a conversation, more Read the rest of this entry »
Most people soon realize that they can increase their follower numbers dramatically by aggressively promoting your twitter URL online. email signatures, forum signatures, badges on blogs, and a variety of other methods can help increase the size of one’s fan base.
Now that Twitter is getting so big, there’s another way to increase attention. It may be time for you to start promoting your Twitter URL offline, too.
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When one of the better-known internet marketers was asked for a twitter tip, he mentioned thinking of the long-term consequences instead of focusing on the obvious. Dr. Mani recommended that users go beyond sales and traffic considerations, stating that they should look at relationship building and becoming part of the larger, more meaningful dialogs in their industry instead.
That advice is solid gold. If you hit Twitter with the simple notion of boosting traffic, you’re not going to get Read the rest of this entry »
Let’s say you wanted to find two thousand people who would share an interest in your upcoming product.
Now, let’s say that you wanted a way to contact them and to send them updates and even a purchase link when you were ready to go.
Time for a squeeze page and an auto responder, right? Not necessarily. There’s nothing wrong with creating a list, but there could be a much more efficient way to get the job done.
You can gather thousands of followers and “tweet” them the Read the rest of this entry »
“I’m not seeing any real results from twitter” rel=”tag”>twitter.”
“I’m on Twitter, but I’m not really making any of these connections people are always talking about.”
“I signed up for Twitter, but I only have a handful of followers. It doesn’t seem very worthwhile.”
You’ll occasionally hear complaints like those and they often have one thing in common. The person making them failed to get a grip on the real key to Twitter. Using it.
Nothing happens by itself. That’s definitely true for Twitter. Read the rest of this entry »
There are different ways to get twitter followers. You can follow everyone and their house pets yourself, hoping that enough of them will reciprocate to boost your follower total through the stratosphere.
You can make a concerted effort to promote your Twitter URL at every turn, hoping to find new followers from the population that visits your website or blog.
There’s another way to do it. The third route, by the way, is the one that works the best.
If you tweet quality, you’ll get followers. Read the rest of this entry »
twitter is more than idle chit-chat. It’s not just a big instant messenger and there’s some valuable stuff happening below the surface. Sure, the way some people use the service trivializes its significance. That’s undeniable. There are others, however, that are figuring out that Twitter can be a serious tool.
Just in case you haven’t been converted to the pro-Twitter side yet, here are three more reasons to take the social networking service seriously.
First, it creates a splendid opportunity Read the rest of this entry »
Have you really looked at your list of twitter followers lately? If you have, you probably know that feeling. You see someone on the list of those you’re following and you have no idea whatsoever why they made the cut.
Sometimes, you must cull your list. Not only will that help control the “noise” in your Twitter stream, it will also help in other ways.
First, it helps keep Twitter clean. Following bad accounts, dead accounts, spammers and bots only encourages aberrant behavior. Cut the Read the rest of this entry »
Do you ever follow those people on twitter who don’t have photos? I’ll be honest: Unless I know the individual associated with the profile personally, I don’t.
That’s not because I hate that little default graphic Twitter supplies (although I do). It’s mainly because experience has shown me that 99% of the accounts that don’t have a picture belong to spammers and robot accounts–not the kind of “people” I need in my social network.
So, if you don’t have a picture for your Twitter profile, Read the rest of this entry »