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Find Followers
• Fill out your profile
o People will ignore you if you
Know your Brand!
Don’t Over Update!
don’t have a profile
• Search
On Twitter, everyone can see what you say.
I
f you over
-update, or tweet too m
uch. If
o Use
you send too much information out into y
our
o Look for
It is critical to understand this if you are
stream, people will tune you out.
People
tweeting for your business.
Companies/Organizations
Or worse, they will un-follow you.
Conferences
Be cognizant of your brand and your
Industry terms (from
mission, because what you tweet will add or
other people’s tweets)
detract from your message.
Shorten URLs
• Connect Twitter to other Social Media
Sites
Since you only get 140 characters per tweet,
o Use Twitter widgets to connect
when you share a URL you should shorten
twitter to Facebook, MySpace,
it.
Have a Strategy
Blogger, Typepad or another
blog
Mo
st of the twitter clients have a built-in
Why do you want to be on twitter?
URL shortener. Just copy and past the UR
L
• Look for Twitter widgets on:
• Connect with clients
you want to share into the URL shortener
o Blogs you follow
box and click ok.
• Sell a product
o Conferences you attend
• Connect with thought leaders
• Click through the tweets of those you
Here are some
of the popular URL
• Find a job
follow
shorteners:
• Find job applicants
If one of your followers ats (@) or
•
retweets (RT) something interesting,
TinyURL
check out that user. If they look
•
Bit.ly
interesting, follow them.
•
Is.gd
• Check out sites that rate Twitter
users:
O e note
n
of caution: be careful clicking on
o
a shortened URL. Since you can’t see which
o
website the shortened URL is sending you
to, there is potential to end up someplace
you don’t want to be.
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