| If you are new at Twitter, visit here first. First is you need some software to grow you account for you. I recommend Tweet Adder. Tweet Adder is sold for a single user, 5, 10 and an unlimited number of accounts! I use this and it works very well & cuts the work down that is required to obtain followers. A word of warning: Watch that you aren't posting duplicate tweets on multiple accounts! Twitter rules on multiple accounts seem to be contradict themselves so watch ANY duplicate Postings! Please refer to Twitters rules here: http://help.twitter. com/forums/26257/entries/18311. Tweet Adder will aid you while you sleep. Tweet Adder allows you to search for key words and you can set it up to automatically follow that group of people. So this qualifies who you follow to a small degree and thus qualifies who will possibly follow you back. As you grow your account, Tweet Adder will follow and unfollow. When you're small, you can review them and unfollow. Once you get several thousand, it becomes more difficult. For a long time, I could follow and unfollow with "Catfood Follower" but at some point, I'm guessing about 8000 followers, Catfood cease to work. But it is very easy to use to automatically follow back and automatically unfollow so I recommend it. I'm assuming you have ran into the fact that if you're following too many in ration to those following you, Twitter freezes you. Hence the need to unfollow dead wood, those that don't follow back. Tweepi.com. I recently found thanks to one of my great followers, Bevan Bird @birdify whom I recommend you follow, located for me a program that allows you to pull up all that you are following, review them and unfollow if you like! That is Tweepi.com. With this software program, free by the way, I was able to unfollow about 1200 that I have followed in the past that didn't reciprocate, didn't follow me back. Some were there for 7 months and were totally inactive! Next is the action of RT'ing (retweeting=the resending of someone else's message out to your followers). Twitter is a community and there are great friend there to be made. "Each RT is more valuable that the last. RT please! #Quote #AwesomeTeam" Carl Watts. The power of the internet is the spreading of information. Each RT spreads information, knowledge, further and further and potentially can circle the globe and change mankind. This is done by a simple RT by you, helping mankind. In advance, thanks for helping!* Follow those they recommend. Retweet their recommendation. People will follow you back. In viewing my time stream, I pick out tweets I like and RT them. I do this at random if the tweet is acceptable. I never retweet ugly tweets or offensive tweets as I want the world to get brighter not darker. You might find this short blurp interesting "Two Wolves." Twitter Jail To avoid Twitter jail, keep your tweets less that 41 per 30 min period. Your allow 1000 per day broken down into 30min sections :-) If you find your over your limit, keep checking. It maybe for 2 minutes or 2 hours is about the longest it's happened to me. Also if you get the message "something is wrong," try refreshing your page. That sometimes helps. If you get someone offensive, block them. Don't let them make your world less bright. If they are spamming report them too. You are probably only one of many they are offending! Back to those that don't follow you back. (I wrote an article on this "Following Back"--Communication.) I found there were a number of Tweeters that I was following that had failed to follow me back even though I was RT'ing their tweets and basically recommending them. Using Tweepi.com. I was able to locate this handful. Once I knew who they were, I sent them a message by @ing them. (@Poet_Carl_Watts come to me and is viewable by all your followers. I pay attention to these messages.) Almost all immediately followed me back. * URL Shortening.
up a shortening service that will take your URL and shrink it down. This allows you to get more text in the message. I recommend is.dg for shortening. Very fast. Go www.is.gd. Just pull their logo down onto your book mark bar. You're set to go! When Tweeting a URL, ensure the full http etc is present. That way the link with be live. http://.www.carlwattsartist.com would be live on Twitter. carlwattsartist.com would not be live and would require people to copy and paste to visit page!
really want to post more than 140 characters and no matter how you shorten it, it's too long. Twitlonger (http://www.twitlonger. com/) is a service that is free. You can go there and do a longer posting. I just posted an email that was 1800 characters. The draw back is only part of your tweet is visible unless they follow the link. If you create a mystery, something for them to be curious about, they will follow the link! When you use them, if you place @Poet_Carl_Watts in the beyond 140 character space, it doesn't go through. Same with hash marks. @me's and hash marks must be in the first 120 or so characters to show and be effective. Great service though and is free! Unfriendly Characters
Twitter. I handle these by finding something good about the person, or a positive way I can respond. Rather than taking offense and creating an upset by lashing back, I usually create a friend. You should try this. I have to block rude and offensive people wouldn't drop the covert attacks. don't want that on my comm lines. Ping.fm You probably already know this but, you can have your Twitter postings show up on MySpace, Linkedin, Facebook and many more. I have many contacts on several of the above. You can use Ping.fm, a free service. You can have your Twitter posting show up on Facebook and or on your own site as I do via Ping.fm. I don't post on Facebook often. The number of posting I do is simply too much for my Facebook friends. I post a few links to my site where they can look if they like. I do have a Fan page. Like it for me! them. new person that follows you. This is good. Be sure your message ask about them, benefits them, not all about you. If you sign up with them, I suggest you also sign up with them as an affiliate, still no cost. This way if someone you refer does become a paying professional, you make money monthly. I believe you can do this with Tweet Adder also, I've just never set it up since I have SocialOomph running nicely. In using Twitter in a big way, SocialOomph or Tweet Adder create a huge advantage and save you tons of labor! I consider them extremely valuable! Click on these links to take you to my affiliate pages! If you do purchase either of these, I recommend you sign up as an affiliate. That way, you can make commission to if you promote and someone signs up. I can tell you, I purchased form someone's promotion and they made money! So should you! By the way, do take some time and read Twitter's rules and policies. They suspend without warning or explanation. Please refer to Twitters rules here: http://help.twitter.com/forums/26257/entries/18311. If you want to get your data known fast, if you have a Tweet you feel is important, sent it with an @Poet_Carl_Watts. I will ReTweet all of your messages if I can. I may get behind or I may simple disagree and not be willing to retweet. But normally, I'm there to pass on your communications. Please don't abuse my willingness to help. It's completely based on me wanting to help mankind. If you like be to put your site URL in front of thousands potential viewers or have me grow a following for you or manage posting to your existing social networks (MySpace, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, etc) contact me! Follow me on Twitter at Poet_Carl_Watts. Please follow @MaryHWatts as a back up to my account! If you have found this helpful, don't be shy, hit the donate button. How I use Twitter & Why "Tweet Adder" most recommended software! Carl Man survives best when man is helping man survive! A person is only as valuable as he helps or assist others! Need some help in life without being told what to do, what to think, contact me. Have a great day! Carl *The use of a hashmark "#" in front of a word is tracking method. It is used to establish trends and allows a subject to be located easier. Don't over use #s. "A hashtag is similar to other web tags- it helps add tweets to a category" per Twitter. See full data: http://help.twitter.com/entries/49309-what-are-hashtags- the-symbol. Key to all this is an internet not controlled by government or a few corporations. Support www.SaveTheInternet.com and Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org |
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