Do You Have Any Twitter Tips? Heres Two Twitter Tips

Posted by Pixelhead

Here are several Twitter tips for you.

Twitter tip nuggets:

Do you use the @feature to make friends?

I get tons of people who add me on Twitter, and I would gladly add them as well. However, I get so much email everyday, that when I get a notification that someone has added me, many times I won’t get back to check out the persons profile and add them. If you want me to add you, send a tweet out using @emperoranton. Make sure to say something original, insightful and/or helpful. @EmperorAnton your great, please add me is nice, but if I visit your profile and you have no updates, and are following 2000 other people, I probably will not be following you in return. If you want me to add you, try re-tweeting one of my tweets using the format “rt @EmperorAnton{copy and paste a tweet from my stream}. Use the @feature, and you will surely make lots of friends. But please don’t do it in a spammy sort of way. Sincerity and originality are appreciated greatly.

How do You Search Twitter?

Sure you can use the search feature at the top of the page by clicking the “find people” link, but that will only enable you to search for account users. You can also use the search bar on the side bar, which will give you the same results as search.twitter.com, which is the Twitter search tool I prefer to use. I like having the ability to create a search for any given phrase, and then being able to use the feed for that query for what every purpose you may want.

One last nugget not included in the video.

Check out Twittapp.com which is a great little site that has several sweet Twitter applications that will allow you to get email notifications when someone follows or un-follows you, and also when someone ats you or uses your user name with the at symbol.

How about you?

Do you have any Twitter tips to share?

Written by Pixelhead on April 28th, 2009 with comments disabled.
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#1. April 28th, 2009, at 5:43 AM.

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Sushi
#2. April 28th, 2009, at 6:47 AM.

My twitter tip is this: ban twitter in your router’s settings and never visit it again. Seriously that’s what I had to do to battle the addiction. Now whenever I want to visit twitter I need go to my router’s settings, unban it and all that stuff. And it just takes so much time that I’m not “casualy” checking twitter when I’m bored.

ELC
#3. April 28th, 2009, at 10:48 AM.

Good tips – I’ve been experimenting with Twitter and tried following people, with some success, but I’ve not tweeted them. I may try doing that next to see how much better the results could be.

A useful tip is to find another Twitterer that’s similar to you (e.g. if you sell widgets, find some other people that also sell widgets) and then follow the people they’re following as they could well be interested in following you back.
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Jeet
#4. April 28th, 2009, at 2:59 PM.

RT absolutely rocks I initially used to RT without the @username syntax and later realized that @ would notify the original guy as well.

I don’t think I have ever added someone who just randomly added me. Most of the times I added people when one of my existing ‘friends’ retweets someone’s message.

@ messages are cool, I have notified popular bloggers about their blogs having problems and was surprised to get a kind response back.

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Pixelhead
#6. April 28th, 2009, at 8:44 PM.

Jeet, Twitter really amazes me how it allows you to have access to high profile people…that is when they aren’t Ashton who has a million followers.

Pixelhead
#7. April 28th, 2009, at 8:45 PM.

Sushi, Yea, it does have the propensity of being able to suck your time away. Addictive personalities might want to steer clear. Moderation is a great word.

Pixelhead
#8. April 28th, 2009, at 8:46 PM.

ELC good idea about following your competitions followers.

Paul
#9. April 28th, 2009, at 8:47 PM.

Thanks for the tips, I just added replies from Twitapp.com

Thanks Pixel!

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Rick
#11. April 29th, 2009, at 6:32 PM.

Nice tips! I would add one: ask questions/input to engage the twitter network and find the major players within your niche.

cheers!

Cheeky Bingo
#12. April 30th, 2009, at 12:58 AM.

@Sushi – I can’t believe you actually ban and unban twitter just to use it (and not use it) That’s crazy!

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#13. April 30th, 2009, at 1:37 PM.

It always boggled my mind why wouldn’t twitter just install a regular search engine. It can’t be that hard now can it?

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#14. May 1st, 2009, at 3:31 PM.

I appreciate your tips. Do you have any suggestion about how to separate your personal twitter life (read by friends) from your professional twitter life (read by clients and those in your industry)? Maybe two Twitter profiles is the answer, but that becomes cumbersome.

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#15. May 1st, 2009, at 5:07 PM.

I’m basically new to this, but what are some tips on getting followers??? I’ve posted several messages, as well as clicked on five people to follow but still see no followers! I’ve also never received a reply since I’ve started this.

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#16. May 1st, 2009, at 8:32 PM.

RT [re-tweeting, copying a link or content with their user name with RT afterwards or before] what another Twitter user said is a good way of letting them know you’re reading and enjoying their content, so they may do the same for you.

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#17. May 4th, 2009, at 12:38 PM.

Hey there just found your site “ I like it ”. try using http://www.twitscoop.com/ for search results and hot trends. Follow me for me twitter tips http://twitter.com/c4rves

Rick
#18. May 4th, 2009, at 5:57 PM.

@Hotels
John Chow just came up with a system to get a list of followers fast. It might help you out. http://twitterfollower.com/

Goran
#19. May 5th, 2009, at 1:41 PM.

All twitter tips greatly appreciated, I am a newb and all the tricks learnt by others will stand me in good stead.

Pixelhead
#20. May 5th, 2009, at 3:19 PM.

Rick, thanks, I’ll be sure to check it out.

Owen,(uninstall toolbar), I’ll check it out as well, and I did add you.

Hotels, just be authentic, don’t try to spam comments…If someone adds me and only has a few updates, the last being over a day ago, I probably will not add them. Give it some time and be consistent in your use.

Aaron, I know people who have numerous twitter accounts( I do as well), but it is quite hard to be really active on more than one. When I am working on a site, that is when I activate the twitter account for it, and post a tweet or two. You could also add your feeds to the secondary twitter accounts to have them populated more frequently.

Note: Just checked out Balkhis post the http://www.balkhis.com/twitter/ultimate-guide-to-retweet-for-twitter-users/” rel=”nofollow”>Ultimate Guide to Re-tweet for Twitter…I highly recommend you check it out.

Nancy
#21. May 5th, 2009, at 5:39 PM.

These 2 tips are great.I always being following my competitions followers and i have see some good results.

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#22. May 8th, 2009, at 4:23 PM.

I really want a lot. I know this sounds so stupid but I am kinds new and I want a lot! I have 16 so far… any tips?

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#23. May 9th, 2009, at 9:48 AM.

actually I don’t follow users most of the time who follows me because most of the time a person follows me is already following 1000 of people and expect me to follow them too , and I really don’t like that , in the same way if I follow anybody I don’t expect them to follow me

Kotlina Klodzka
#24. May 12th, 2009, at 10:59 AM.

I have only recently signed up for twitter. It looks like fun. Actualy it was a part of an event on another site and to participate I needed an account. But I guess I might just use it even after the even ends.

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#25. May 13th, 2009, at 12:49 AM.

One of the best Twitter tips I can give is to use the power of Twitter Search. Search for topics in your niche – and offer advice and get in on the conversation. This is definately how’ve I’ve increased my participation on Twitter ten-fold.

Pixelhead
#26. May 13th, 2009, at 2:23 PM.

Yes that Twitter Search feature is sweet indeed. A great way to go scrapping for potential customers for your particular niche.

Jeet
#27. May 13th, 2009, at 4:01 PM.

Well, twitter provides access to a LOT of celebrities at the same time, before this people had to follow each individual blog. Also not all celebrities were good at writing but 140 characters don’t require much literary skills.

Unlike usual social networks, twitter allows me to just follow (without friending), I guess that’s just great for celebrities. Even digg and flickr have it but they have completely different content

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#28. May 14th, 2009, at 12:57 AM.

I keep on hearing people talking about twitter, I checked out twitter the other day and it’s basically posting what you do and people following it up. I dont like the whole world to know what I’m doing, so Is it really a must for a blog or website?? Thanks!

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#29. May 14th, 2009, at 2:58 AM.

I haven’t really started on twitter.However, your tips is useful to me.I would certainly feel annoyed if I found out that the person is actually trying to follow as many people as possible.

Pixelhead
#30. May 14th, 2009, at 8:24 PM.

There are a lot of profiles that add a ton of people in hopes of having them add them as well…quite a few autoresponder types of accounts as well.

wpmoz
#31. May 15th, 2009, at 4:24 PM.

How do you put a picture on? I have tried several times already and can’t get it on. All it says is that’s nice picture but it doesn’t become my picture. HELP! Also, scince I’m new to twitter can you give me some tips, tell me what it is, and how it works..

Melayuboleh
#32. May 15th, 2009, at 5:20 PM.

I just use twitter for kish twitter plugin only for my page. Didn’t use twitter a lot.

Pixelhead
#33. May 15th, 2009, at 6:00 PM.

You have to make sure the file size is not bigger than 700k and is jpg, gif, or png formatted. After you click save one time and it does, navigate back to your Twitter home page and it should be up.
For more info, read any of my previous posts and you can also try Googling “How to use Twitter”.

Kirk
#34. May 19th, 2009, at 5:33 PM.

i don’t have a twitter account yet but i heard from it before, when i heard that celebrities like shaq, oprah, ashton etc. were into it, i sorta wanted to sign up… lotsa nice tips, pretty sure they’ll help me alot…

Cyndi
#35. May 23rd, 2009, at 11:10 PM.

Fairly new to twitter – yet I am hooked. Finding new people every day interested in the same things I am – and have made some great contacts and greater friends. For me twitter is helping make the world huge… thanks so much for the tips – gonna try them out right now (will you follow me back? if I say please?

Pixelhead
#36. May 24th, 2009, at 1:41 PM.

I will most certainly add you…you should have dropped your profile url

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#37. May 27th, 2009, at 6:37 AM.

I got your point why you are refusing those following you without their profile updated, very annoying. It is important to know first those users with same interest of yours and following users just to have many followers is a kind of useless thing and really annoying. I do search friends by keywords.

kim

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#38. June 1st, 2009, at 5:51 AM.

That was very useful information. I had certain difficulty in getting the hang of twitter and its complete usage. now things are much clear. Thanks for sharing.

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#39. June 11th, 2009, at 9:42 AM.

My tip to get a lot of followers for target topics is to use http://www.twollow.com/
You can only use this when you have more than 50 updates. Enter a keyword and twollow will automatically follow people that have that keyword in their profile and conversation. This tool is free and works very nicely so far.

kadmiel
#40. June 29th, 2009, at 2:48 AM.

I am not a heavey twitter user am i missing out on a marketing tip? i just don;t have the time to text into this avery hour of my life it just seems such a waste if too much information

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#41. July 22nd, 2009, at 10:27 AM.

I like the tip from Pixelhead the best. I’ve been a twitterer for less than two days and already I’m enraged by people who are just there to paste links to their own blogs every two seconds!

Alex
#42. August 7th, 2009, at 2:31 PM.