Twitter is your micro-blog
Twitter is a little bit like marmite, ‘you either love it or you hate it’
I didn’t think much of twitter when I first logged on, I couldn’t quite work out who I was communicating with and on the surface it just seemed like a place to fire out multiple links to increase SEO, and also spam people. But, it’s now captured my imagination and it’s pretty fun too.
Here are the Guru’s top ten tips for using Twitter
1. Get Tweetdeck, and manage your account & updates from it.
2. Use the blackberry or i-phone apps to update from wherever you are or if you don’t have one of these you can text updates in.
3. Use Twitter counter to monitor your performance
4. Utilise hash tags – hash tagging allows people to find you based on the topics that you are discussing. Here is how to do it:
Put the # in front of a key word i.e #travel #skiing #GAPYear
This will allow people to find you through these groupings and spread your tweets further.
5. Engage with everyone, put the @ symbol in front of another users name in a message to direct that towards them, start a conversation.
6. Follow people, but not everyone. Follow those who are talking and spread yourself out over different topics, people will eventually find you and start chatting.
7. Share bit.ly links back to your website
8. If someone says something interesting then re tweet it
example: RT: @alpineguru09 (put the text here)
9. Don’t tweet pointless stuff all the time, only tweet when it matters.
10. Share images on twitter & don’t forget to link through to your other platforms as well – such as Facebook & Linkedin.
