20 top tips & tricks

Andy Priestner / @PriestLib

Write a meaningful bio and add a good portrait photo to attractfollowers (ditch the egg)

If you only broadcast and never

listen, people will

start to notice and

unfollow you

Manage your twitter experience (and your other social channels) by maintaining them in one place

Use the search

facility to locate topics that interest

you and to discover

(and follow) people with

similar objectives

Use hashtags to group your tweets by content (and search using hashtags too)

Tweet useful

content – news,

blogposts, websites –

and offer your own

take on their value

Don’t be tempted to obtain followers by any quick route, this will not aid your twitter presence

Tweet regularly

but not too often,

people might think

you are addicted

rather than engaged

Take part in Follow Friday (#FF) to promote good people to follow and to find new ones

Set aside time in your schedule to

tweet – make it part of

your routine in order to

keep up the momentum

Maintain a balance between how many people you follow and how many follow you

Engage in conversations

and (good-natured)

debate – this is the key to

getting value out of twitter

Invest your 140 characters with wit, warmth and character - learn the art of constructing concise but interesting tweets

Show personality

and humour in your tweets -

no one is going to follow

a twitter account that could be run

by a robot

Retweet other peoples tweets and others will retweet yours in return

Favourite tweets

that you want to

come back to explore when you

have more time

Tweet at lunchtime and between 4pm and 5pm when twitter is busiest and they will be seen

Set up keyword

search alert

channels, so that tweets

matching your

interests are

gathered

Create lists in order to organise your most valuable followers into areas of interest so you don't miss their tweets

Don’t sit there like a potato!

You get out of twitter what you put in -

tweet, follow and engage, and you will be rewarded

for your efforts

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https://twitter.com/PriestLib