You might be a new user of twitter or have been using it for quite some time. Some of you may wonder why you still don’t have enough followers, or some are just getting followed by spam. Here are some tips which will help you keep track of you account statistics and how you can make yourself look good on Twitter.
- Username: First of all, have a nice twitter handle or a username! Avoid underscores, 000’s etc… it should easy to type, easy to remember and most importantly it should NOT be something totally unlike you.
- Profile: Do the basics first. Fill in your profile properly. Update your location and your website. Most Importantly, write a good Bio for yourself, which in a few words will attract people to follow you. Don't just write some quote copied from somewhere or even worse, leave it blank!
- Background Picture: Yes. This is another point than just your profile. You need not have super duper ‘photoshoped’ picture as your background, but try as much as possible to keep you twitter screen attractive, pleasant and above all unique. Also take care of the colours, don’t be gaudy!
- Following: This is a key point. Don’t just follow any Tom Dick and Harry expecting that they will follow you. Follow only those whose tweets you really want to follow and others who you would really like on your profile.
Here’s a warning! Don’t follow a huge number of random people with an intention they will follow you back and once they do, you want to un-follow them! If they find out that you are in this habit, they are sure to block you! Plus, your twitter reputation will take a good beating. - Followers: Here you can be liberal. Just be careful of spam followers. But don’t forget, take care of your followers. They are following you for a reason that they like you or your tweets in one way or the other. So thank them for mentions, re-tweets, tweet something to them, have a chat, etc. Don’t ignore them.
- Don’t Tweet Nonsense Please!: Unless you are followed by a million people, a celebrity or some superstar
please don’t tweet things like Good morning, I’m awake, I’m drinking coffee, I'm tired, going to sleep, I am combing my hair, I’m bored, I’m happy… Well you can tweet that. I do it too! But don’t do it TOO MUCH! You will irritate all your followers. - Retweets: There are two things to this. Retweeting other’s tweets and getting others retweet your tweets. Both ways should and will happen only the tweets are sensible. Don’t retweet just about ANYTHING that you think is nice. You will simply crowd people twitter timelines! And don’t tweet crap! Only if your tweets are really funny, have a strong message, nicely written, something unique… it will be retweeted. By RT’ing you can spread your twitter reach to so many others. So take care here.
- Publicize: Don’t only aim for publicity only on twitter. Try in other spaces as well. For example, add your twitter contact to you personal and business websites, add it in your email signatures, make a mention of it on your Facebook profile and even in your non-internet-spaces like public SMSs, business cards, etc.
- Unfollowed?: Want to know who un-followed you on twitter? I suggest you forget this. Those who really like your tweets will still follow you, those who don’t won’t! So there’s no need to run behind them and ask them to follow you again! However, if too many people unfollow you at once, then there might be something wrong that you may want to correct. Use sites like this to track down who has unfollowed you.
- Use it: Finally use twitter because you want to use it! Don’t just come on twitter and beg people to follow you, and retweet stupid tweets because you have no other work. Use it for its purpose, to build your friends network, your contacts and for your business or work purposes.
P.S.: For heaven's sake please don’t compare it to Facebook. They both are two different things!
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