How to Use Twitter….Basic Techniques and Tips For the Beginner Twitter

Make sure you include you picture in your profile. This picture can be of you which some say it should be. Other people use a picture of their kids, animals and pictures that pertain to their business. Some people update their pictures on a regular bases. You will have background to pick out for your profile page. Twitter supplies you with some basic backgrounds to use. You can make your own or download some from different sites out there that offer twitter backgrounds.

When you twitt you have a picture that shows up with your twitt. This picture can be the same picture as in your profile, or it can be an avatar. It is best to use the same picture throughout your social networking sites. The picture again can be anything that you want. An avatar should be related to your business.

You have a 140 characters to “WOW” your followers. Which really isn’t a lot but it’s enough to say what you need to say. Make sure you inspire, entertain,
educate, and join in on conversations with your followers..Yes, you can promote you business, website and blog..I have never promoted my business through twitter
but I have promoted my blog..Be careful not to just push your business. You need to be yourself. Build relationships with your followers. They will come
to you and want to do business with you..that is what has been happening to me..

You can use abbreviations to help save your characters. Make sure that everyone will be able to understand your twitt if you do. There are many abbreviations
used on twitter. Here are a few of the commonly used ones….

RT= retweet
RTL= retweet love
BRB= Be Right Back
LOL= laugh out loud
ROFL+ Roll on the floor laughing (there are many versions of this one but sticking to the basic one)
TY= Thank you
YW= Your Welcome
:+)= Smile
OMG= oh my God
Grrr= frustration
ugh= frustration
DM= Direct Message

Many more I can list but you will learn more as you begin to twitt. Don’t hesitate to jump into conversations which will help you build relationships
and friendships which is the foundation for a good business relationship. Your twitters have to know that they can trust you and count on you if you
want them to do business with them.

When you RT someone you need to put a RT(space) @workingmoms (space) (example) that way the person you are RT’ing will get it in there @replies…Retweet in a common
curtsy in the the twitting world. When you get RT’d it is proper etiquette to tell the person thank you for the RT. I do that and then ask them how their
day is going..but that is just me. Some people don’t thank peeps for RT’ing…I’m happy that somebody takes the time to RT so I always thank them. If someone
RT’s me then I try to RT them back. To spread the twitter love…example of an RT….RT @workingmoms

Always reply to some with an @then their name…example(space)@workingmoms(space) again this way they will get a copy in their mentions..

Direct Messages or DM’s (as they are known as) are messages that everyone cannot see. You can only DM people who are following you…So lets say if I’m
following you I can not DM you but you can DM me. So if someone Dm’s you and you can not DM them back then they are not following you..If you DM someone and they
can not DM you back then you are not following them. A little confusing huh…There is a drop down box at the top of the DM box..If you can not find
the follower you wish to DM the type a -D hit the space bar then type the name of the person you are DM’ing then hit the space bar again. The
name of the person you are DM’ing should appear in the box above. (example) D workingmoms ..you can take off the D workingmoms once the name appears and you
are ready to start typing your DM.

Favorites is for any twitt that you want saved. Some people save their twitts or twitts that they want to go back too..I usually put my favorite twitters in my
favorite’s or twitts I want to go back to. Everyone can check to see what you have in your favorite.

Updates is all the twitts that you have sent out…not a good place to save your favorite twitts that you would like to use later.

Followers are people that are following you…to me it goes up and down like a roller coaster…don’t get to concerned unless it takes a huge nose dive..this
could be a twitter hiccup…

Following are people you are following..you can unfollow people from here who you no longer want to follow. I usually unfollow people who unfollow me..

This covers the basic twitting for the newbie twitter…Remember one important thing when twitting….Twitt how you would like to be twitted…be nice

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Twitter Traffic Tips – 3 Simple Way To Flood Your Website With Twitter Traffic!

Gaining a lot of Twitter traffic for your website can be very easy. As soon as you have got a Twitter account you basically need to follow the three following steps below to bring in far more traffic using Twitter:

Twitter Traffic Tip #1: To begin with you need to start placing other people and websites on your Twitter network. Following people on Twitter will allow them to follow you back. So you will need to ‘follow’ people that choose to ‘follow’ you back.

Twitter Traffic Tip #2: Every time somebody replies to a ‘tweet’ which you create you will need to respond back with a “@ reply”. That means your subscribers to see that you pay attention to them and care about them creating a relationship. This will keep up your Twitter traffic and build a lot of good bonds between them.

Twitter Traffic Tip #3: You could attract a lot of traffic by basically marketing your Twitter web link. One way to do this is to put your link to your Twitter account on your website and by placing it in every email that you send out, also put it in every classified ad which you make.

The more that you promote your Twitter account the more traffic you will attract which means the more followers you will have. This traffic will then bring you more money for your online business that is what you ultimately what your main goal should be. It will more importantly give you more free systems of advertising your online business or website.

Twitter Tools Part 1

Twitter Tools Part 1
by Al Ferretti and Skeeter Hansen

Twitter Tools (part 1 of 6): “For Fun and More”

Twitter Watchdog presents Twitter Tools Part 1 of 6 For Fun and MoreEarlier this year, Evan Williams CEO and Co Founder of Twitter reported that there are about 2,000 3rd party tools and apps for twitter. Wow~ Did he say 2,000? That’s a lot of options.

To keep things simple we’re sharing a tidbit with a link to some of the more popular twitter tools in use today. This is part 1 of 6 and we are beginning with twitter tools and apps “For Fun and More”

Crowd Status- View the status of your friends on Twitter in a start-up page style.

Bkkeepr– With this service, you can track the books you are reading on Twitter.

CommuterFeed – You can share your traffic report on Commuterfeed using Twitter.

Foamee – This is a fun site that allows you to track people who owes you beer or coffee using your Twitter account.

FoodFeed – is a micro blogging site that you can use to post about your food habits through Twitter.

InnerTwitter– Meditate by receiving chimes at regular intervals from InnerTwitter.

Notches– Allows you to write reviews of certain items on Twitter.

Hahlo– if you are not satisfied with your Twitter interface, you can check out Hahlo to manage your Twitter account. It gives you a separate profile page and the rest of the Twitter features in a new look.

My Tweeple– Manage your friends and followers in Twitter on a single web page.

Post Like a Pirate– This tool allow you to convert your post into pirate-speak before posting it to Twitter. I, however, don’t need it, because I already speak like a pirate. Yarr!

Quitter will help you how to use Twitter to quit smoking. Bonus points for cool name.

Roll the dice – You can use this service to do all the silly things on Twitter like roll a dice, flip a coin, deal cards, or generate a random number.

StrawPoll – Sends out polls on Twitter that you can participate on. As they say, you can never have too many polls.

TrackThis – This is an useful service to get updates of your shipment using Twitter. It supports FedEx, UPS, USPS and DHL tracking codes.

Twee60 – You can tweet your Xbox live status with Twee60 automatically.

TwitResponse – Set up your Twitter posts for the future.

TwittEarth – This is a 3D model of the earth displaying the latest updates on Twitter across the globe. You can download the tool as a screensaver.

Twitterfeed – Posts your blog posts automatically to Twitter.

TwitterMeThis – When you follow TwitterMeThis, it will send you a question randomly. If you are the first to answer that question, then you get $5.

TwitterSpy – provides you a Google map on its site. when you hover your mouse above certain locations on that map, you get to see the latest public posts from that area. Strangely addicting.

Tweetclouds – Create a word cloud from a public Twitter stream using this service.

Tweetgift – Remember Facebook where you can poke, throw a sheep, or hug a friend? Tweetgift enables you to do the same on Twitter.

Twaction – Another service that lets you do Facebook-style pokes and slaps at friends.

Twistori – Based on Summize, this service collects Twitter messages with words such as love, hate, think, believe, wish, and feel and displays them on its site with automatic updates.

Twitpoll – You can participate on polls using Twitter through Twitpoll.

Tweetshots – this service allows you to take your Twitter posts to Tumblr, embed in websites, or send over email.

TwitterAnswers combines Twitter and Mosio, so that you can send questions over Twitter and have them answered by other people.

Twitter Karma – This tool fetches your Twitter friends and followers and displays them for you, letting you paginate through them in a nicer way than you would on Twitter.

TwitterNotes – You can create notes on TwitterNotes using Twitter and tagging your notes.

TwitterPoster – This site generates a mosaic of user icons of those with a large number of followers on Twitter.

TwitterSnooze – If you have friends on Twitter who are updating every 10 seconds and are irritating the hell out of you, you can simply now snooze them away using this tool.

TwitterSpectrum – Based on Summize, this tool show you the associated words of two pair of words or names in a nice spectrum layout.

Xpenser – Record your expenses using Twitter. You can also use other mediums like email, SMS, IM, voice, etc.

Who Should I follow Who Should I follow – Find interesting people to follow on Twitter using this tool.