How to Twitter more effectivley is a question I often get asked. I used to tweet a lot about what I was eating or doing. Then I realized that to be more effective at Tweeting it was important to Tweet something of value for your followers. You can get Re-tweeted more and gain more followers by Tweeting interesting or trend setting Tweets.
1) Be Re-Tweetable
- Tweet interesting, inspirational, or valuable information. Only use up about 110 of the available characters in the tweet so there is room for others to Re-Tweet you.
2) Re-Tweet interesting Tweets
that you think your followers will value. If you Re-Tweet other peoples Tweets, they are more likely to Re-Tweet you Tweets. When you Re-Tweet, add a short comment in front of the RT to show who you are and what you think.
3) Use Twitter to meet people, then direct them to your blog
to continue the conversation. Be sure to use your blog as your Twitter URL for people to find out more about you. Once they are on your blog, you can direct them to your sales page or product page. Do not use a sales page as your Twitter URL because Twitter is about the conversation not just sales.
4) Twitter is a great sales tool for affiliates and businesses.
It is important to give away great value before you try to sell something. Provide at least 7 tweets of value inbetween tweets that offer to sell something or send people to a sales page. On the sales page offer something of value in exchange for their email address.
5) Tweet a story and use Twitpic.com to show a picture that continues the story.
Do not tweet a lot of pictures of food. Cars, Birds, Animals Flowers, Famous places are more interesting that a picture of food. These types of Tweets help people get to know you or your business.
6) Be sure to thank people when they Re-Tweet your tweets,
it shows appreciation and that you care. It builds the relationship with your followers and they will be more likely to Re-Tweet you in the future. It helps them feel appreciated for Re-Tweeting your tweet.
7) Quality Tweets move you up in respect in the eyes of your followers.
Followers will pay more attention to you because you provide value instead of just sales pitches or boring things like “I am tired”.
8) Follow back only the people that you find interesting.
You can look at your new followers by clicking followers and look at the last tweet. If it is interesting, you can go to their page and see if the Tweet Stream looks interesting to you. Only follow them back if they tweet interesting, funny, usefull things or they are someone you wnat to get to know or they are a friend.
9) Use Twitter as chat instead of status updates.
Join the conversation instead of just putting in status updates of “what are you doing right now”.
10) Talk to just one person in your tweet.
Do not say “what is everybody doing”. Say I something like “Reading a realy great article on “put your topic here” ” and provide a link to the article. Bit.ly is a great free tool to shorten links and you can see how many people clicked on it. If you wrtite tweets like newspaper or magazine headlines they will capture attention and be interesting to followers.
If twitter is taking too long for you to manage, you can sign up for a free account for a twitter management tool that will let you auto follow and you can exclude certain words in who they folllow. You can also set it up to delete all automatic Direct Messages from new followers.
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