Getting Started With Twitter, Part 2

Setting It All Up

April 21, 2010

SocialMediaRevolutionary.com

Getting Started With Twitter

Part 2

Overview

2

Sign up for Twitter

Set up profile

Getting organized

Link to other social networks

Add relevant followers

Find out more about followers

Auto Follow

NWA Hashtags

Security

Etiquette

Spotting Bots

Sign Up For Twitter

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Go to Twitter.com and click the Join the conversation! Box

Select a username

Use the shortest version of your name possible (ccondray vs.

collincondray) to free up more space in Tweets.

Avoid underscores (reduces retweets)

Find connections in your email http://twitter.com/invitations

Set up your profile

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Name – Use your real name

Location – Can help other local people find you

Web – For longer posts try using Posterous or Tumblr

Bio – Should be related to your goal

Picture –use a real picture. Gives you a human face that’s easier to relate to.

Design – Change from the default one to make you unique

Organizing Your Activity With Hootsuite

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Post to all major social media networks from one place (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)

Organize using Twitter lists based on location, topic, personal friends, etc.

Set tweets to be posted during the day when more people might see it

Link with other networks

6

Facebook

LinkedIn (or by using the #in tag)

Others: MySpace

MrTweet.com

Twello.com

Adding Relevant Followers

7

Find Out More About

Followers With Twimailer

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Extra information

Autofollow New Followers Using

SocialOomph.com

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NWA Hashtags

#479

#NWAark

Zip codes (

Bentonville #72712

Fayetteville #72701

Rogers #72756 #72758

Keeping Safe

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Remember everything but DMs are public

Make sure you don’t put out any personal information

(email, home address, etc.)

Etiquette

You tweet, you don’t twit

Give Credit: RT, via, ht.

Don’t just blast out to your followers, interact with them

Know the difference between Reply and DM

Do not retweet yourself

When retweeting someone else’s retweet, it’s sometimes

okay to drop the secondary source and just retweet the

original poster of the information.

Spotting BotsHot chick picture

Unrelated posts

Generic news stories

Following/Followers out

of proportion

Incomplete or non

descriptive profile

information

Collin Condray

Twitter.com/ccondray

SocialMediaRevolutionary.com

collin@SocialMediaRevolutionary.com

Thank you!