Some People Still Don’t Get Twitter Basics

Some People Still Don’t Get Twitter Basics

Once you have signed up to Twitter chances are the first thing you are going to do is going and find people to follow. Once you have gone through the Suggested User List the next port of call may well be to search on Twitter search or Google for Twitter users that are interested in the same things that you are and then start following them. If you want be engaged in their conversation, which chances are you do – some celebrities and the like may choose never to follow back – and you think you are going to be contributing things with the same validity and importance as those you follow, and there is no reason why you will not, you are probably looking for them to follow you back.

Make it a little bit easier for the people you follow to differentiate you from any other spammer that might choose to follow them. Make sure when you are setting up your Twitter account that you filling in the information it asks you for. If you look on the right hand side of Twitter profiles you will see everyone has the same chances to introduce themselves as everyone else: Name, Location, Web and Bio. In addition make sure you have even a jokey snap uploaded into the picture field, spammers don’t normally bother with pictures so a blank Twitter logo is one of the basic ways of working out whether you are a real person or just someone using the innovative method of Twitter to flog me viagra!

Put even jokey information into the boxes when you are setting up your Twitter profile and you should find that the rate with which people follow you back rockets. Remember that the Web field is a perfect place to point people to your project or corporate homepage, its one of the few places where people will expect to have a clear cut corporate message. You could well be in a position where, if people know they want to find your homepage, they know all they will have to do is follow the link from your Twitter profile. This might be particularly true if you have a clearer, memorable or more concise Twitter handle than you do a domain name.

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