Chirp, Squawk, and Tweet it Up
How is your twitter account coming along? Are you tweeting often, following new people, re-tweeting, conversing, and always following back? The web has a variety of free resources out there which you can use to build your twitter following. Here are some quick tips on how to build your following on twitter…
Participate!
Twitter is a community. Follow some people, ‘re-tweet’ the tweets of others, and engage in a conversation once in a while. Don’t bother answering ever private-message you get… Many of those will be automated-responses.
Follow the Followers!
If you want to build your followers try following accounts which you find following others. You may want to take this idea a step further and follow the followers of accounts relevant to your own account.
Follow the Followees!
Not everyone is going to follow you back. There are plenty of twitter users out there who provide such awesome tweets, they have followers without following in return… These users often provide an awesome source of ‘re-tweetable content’ (re-tweeting is a great way to keep your twitter-timeline updated when you end up with tweeter’s-block).
Purge the UnFollowers!
When following thousands it can be hard to sort the chirpers from the squawkers. Try using tweepi.com, or justunfollow.com to find people who you are following, but who are not following you. These twitter-utilities can also be used to find new tweeps to follow, and weed out those inactive accounts you are following.
twitter & facebook
You can use facebook.com/twitter to link your facebook wall-posts to your twitter stream. ‘Re-Posting’ your facebook-page updates to twitter is a great way to cut down on the time you spend updating multiple smm-feeds. Streaming your updates from facebook to twitter is often preferable to streaming in the opposite direction (twitter-timeline to facebook-wall).
Make sure and visit twitter.com/resources and add a twitter widget to your web-site or social-network-page.
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