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HOW TO GET STARTED WITH TWITTER AS A POWER USER? 8/29/2013 www.writeawriting.com

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Page 1: How To Get Started With Twitter?

HOW TO GET STARTED WITH TWITTER AS A

POWER USER?

8/29/2013 www.writeawriting.com

Page 2: How To Get Started With Twitter?

Twitter is minimalistic and you don’t really have to be “friends” with everyone to have your say communicated to them.

In fact, with twitter, you can connect to a larger audience in an instance and jump in any trending conversations that are being carried out about any event happening anywhere in the world

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GETTING STARTED

Signing up for a twitter account is easy. All you need to do is: go to twitter.com

submit your credentials

check for the verification email

and you are all set to tweet.

But after making an account and signing in, you need to ensure that your profile is 100% complete and doesn’t look like a sales pitch.

For more details, see the following link.

http://www.writeawriting.com/social-media/how-to-get-started-with-twitter-as-power-user/

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PIMP YOUR PROFILE

After you are done filling up all the account credentials of your brand, the next important step is to emphasize on your twitter profile design.

Check the following link for more detail about social media presence.

http://www.writeawriting.com/social-media/social-media-presence/

Make your twitter profile look interactive, informative and something that has the Wow factor to capture your profile sniffers attention.

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YOUR FIRST TWEET

Once you are done with setting up your customized twitter profile, now is the time to spring into some real twitter action; Tweet!

Gone are the days when you’d tweet something like “Checking out how twitter works” etc. You’ll have to be on target with your first tweet!

Check the following link for further detail about posting at twitter.

http://www.writeawriting.com/category/social-media/page/3/

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FOLLOW & GET FOLLOWED

After you’ve done a couple of tweets and are

comfortable with the twitter environment, it’s now time to follow other folks.

Twitter will be consistently displaying “who to follow” suggestions on your left and right navigation bars.

Choose wisely when you follow other people since you’ll be the one reading all their tweets on your timeline and no one likes to read clutter.

Check the link for details.

http://www.writeawriting.com/social-media/tools-who-unfollowed-on-twitter/

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MIND YOUR TWEETING LINGO

Once you are following some folks and interacting

with them, now is the time to get acquainted with twitter language.

You don’t want to feel left out when someone tweets TL, DR, RT, #FF, MT, TBH etc. For a complete list of twitter lingo and its explanation, refer to this TheNextWeb Article.

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WHAT MAKES A GOOD TWEET?

After you are have essentially memorized the twitter vocabulary, now is the time to hit deep in twitter’s power domain.

Always try to be a news breaker, give unique and balances opinion on trends and interact diligently with your followers and strangers.

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CONVERSATIONS? JUST DO IT!

Never be afraid to jump in a twitter

conversations. Since twitter is an open domain and any conversation, that you can see happening, are open for you to join.

So if you feel that your opinion or argument might help in building a positive conversation; dive in. This way, not only you’ll have your opinion heard, but there are chances that people in the conversation might start following you.

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SHARING

Tweet links to articles, interesting blog posts and infographics when possible.

But don’t overdo it. Sharing information on twitter is good, but doing it every second or minute is spam.

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TWITTER PERSONA

There are a myriad of paid and unpaid auto follow, un-follow, auto dm tools available.

Your twitter account is your personality and you aren’t a bot ; unless you auto reply, of course.

Be as genuine as possible and connect with people personally without those pushy sales tweets.

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COMPLEMENTING AND CRITICIZING

• Complimenting works better than blatant criticism

on twitter.

• Never forget to complement if someone tweets some great link, a status update or any multimedia.

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And if you have a twitter tip that will help in

becoming a twitter power user, then do share it with us and the WaW community through the comments area.

http://www.writeawriting.com

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