Gaining Twitter Followers
By Atheer Fendi
You need to first be aware that rushing out and following a heap of people
can make you look like a potential Twitter spammer. Build your following
base slowly. As time goes on, if you are chasing quantity, then you will be
able to add more at a time, but initially I would suggest you stick to 50 for a
start. The reason for this is that when you follow people, they will most likely
follow you back. Many people don’t do this automatically, although some do,
particularly in the internet marketing space. Some people will actually go and
look at your Twitter home page to decide if you are worth following or not in
their eyes. This is where your profile and the settings that you took all the
trouble to do will stand you in good stead.
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The Big Decision For Your Twitter
By Atheer Fendi
It is probably time now to make a big decision as it will affect the way in which
you use Twitter considerably. That decision relates to quality versus quantity.
If you are into marketing, then quantity of followers will be important to you.
It’s like building a list. But if you want to keep things personal, then quality of
followers will be what you need. Either way, the next post will be to find some
people to follow.
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Retweeting
By Atheer Fendi
People appreciate retweets and it is a good way to get noticed by others. All
you do is put RT in front of the @username. Using Tweetdeck, hover over the
user’s avatar and it will put the whole thing in the posting area. Separate their
tweet from your comment if you have one. I usually put two pipes, which is
holding down the Shift key on the \ character. This will produce “||” which
clearly shows the end of the other person’s tweet and your reply or comment.
If other people retweet your tweets, make it a habit to thank them. It’s
common courtesy. Simply tweet @username Thanks for RT 
and send.
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Twitter Replies
By Atheer Fendi
You can reply to someone’s Tweet simply by putting the @symbol in front of
their name. This makes the tweet stand out to them as it appears in their
reply column or page instead of in the general Tweetstream. It is a very useful
way of starting conversations with people in order to build relationships.
Simply comment on one of their tweets. Tweetdeck has a feature when you
hover over the user’s avatar to put their name and reply symbol straight into
the posting area.
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Your Tweets
By Atheer Fendi
Start getting some tweets into the system now. On the Twitter home page, it
asks What You Are Doing. Quite frankly many people don’t care until you
have built a relationship with them as a result of following. But there are
some good ways to get started. Follow some blogs that you are interested in
via an RSS feed to a feed reader such as Google. (Search these on Google if
you are not familiar with the terms. There is heaps of information on there and
could occupy an ebook of its own.) Start by posting links to interesting posts
on Twitter about them with a link to the blog post. For example: “Interesting
post on pest control in tomatos. Link”. Make sure you always include http:// in
the link and not just www so the link is clickable in the Tweetstream. If it’s a
long link, Tweetdeck has a facility to shorten it to a small url.
Another good way of starting out tweeting is with quotes. Do a search for
some quotes of interest and tweet these. Personal development ones are
great and also quotes by famous people. Here’s one I just found in the
Tweetstream as an example: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle. There are thousands of these all
over the internet that you can use.
Whatever you do, at no stage of your Twitter career start posting sales tweet
after sales tweet. Your career will be short-lived if you do and people will
remove you very quickly. Twitter is about engagement, value and a social
experience. A constant flow of sales links is just not on. By all means post
links to your products or sites, but keep them to around 5% of your total
tweets at the most.
Another good idea with your tweeting is to keep religion and politics out of
them. These subjects can only alienate followers and you can lose them.
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