Twitter Tips

Twitter is a micro-blogging application that allows you to be “short and sweet” with your words. You don’t have to be a woman or man of many words to get your point across here, because Twitter only allows you to communicate in 140 character posts per tweet.This short length may sound like it’s too little to help you get your words out, but honestly it is just perfect. After all, who wants to say too much when saying just enough is usually the secret to ultimate success anyway.

Still worried about making Twitter work for you? The following are a few Twitter tips to making Twitter a success for you!

#1 Interact and Communicate – Twitter, after all, is a form of social media, so it should go without saying that you should be social.

#2 Stay Active – Going weeks without twittering will get you nowhere. In order to make the most of Twitter, you have to be involved.

#3 Use Qwitter.com – You’ll know who has quit following you and if you want to do the same. Find more info here.

#4 Use Twitter Tools – Some examples are Tweetdeck, Tweetlater, Twhirl or Twitter Fox; just try them until you find something that you like and that works best for you.

#5 Gain Followers – Followers and those you follow truly make or break your Twitter experience.

#6 Don’t Oversell – Don’t make all your Twitter time about selling or you’ll burn out fast and lose tons of followers.

#7 Use Links – Twitter is a great place to share the linky love, whether it be for a post on your own website or blog or to help out a fellow business owner, both should be done and done often.

#8 Think before you type. With Twitter, just like with just about every other place on the web, what you type is permanent, so you want to type wisely. You don’t want your words to come back to haunt you.

#9 A great tip from Carla Young: Keep your tweets to max of 120 characters to make them retweet friendly. This allows for enough from for RT@YOURNAME. 

#10 Use Facebook and Twitter together for more traffic.  Make sure you use Facebook to it’s fullest capacity.  Fill all your information in such as your bio, information box on the front of your profile and have a fan page etc.  Make sure you add your social networks profiles such as twitter and Linkedin.

As of this blog post, anyone can sign up for a Twitter account free of charge, regardless of whether the Twitter account will be used for business or pleasure. If you want your company to benefit from Twitter, you may want to act fast – there’s talk that free commercial accounts may soon be a thing of the past. No one’s saying when, how or even if this will happen for sure, but this tactic has been cited as an obvious way for Twitter to start bringing in some cash. To read the full article, click here: Twitter To Start Charging Companies for Having An Account?