This is a guest post by Ellie Harrison. Ellie loves anything that makes life easier and gives her more time to explore New York City and read. She writes her own blog at ultimate geek girl.
Twitter is a great tool to help people connect with friends, old and new. It is the fastest growing social networking site on the Internet, so there are lots of opportunities to be friendly with other twitter users and up your social.
1. Participate in Follow Friday! All of the cool kids are doing it, so why not participate, too? Simply list some followers of yours that you think are valuable to others and add on the hashtag #followfriday or #ff. Or mention one person and a compelling reason why they should be followed.
2. Introduce your followers to each other. Do you have two followers who are both into Macs? Or live in the same city? Introduce these tweeps (Twitter speak for Twitter-people) to each other.
3. Greet new followers with a tweet – Thank them for the follow and mention something about their interests or blog. This means you’ll have to actually read their profile and/or blog, but you’ll be letting your followers know you value them enough to read their profile or blog.
4. Encourage your followers to participate on Twitter! Don’t let a week go by without tweets from one of your followers. Ask them what they are up to or what they think about a current event or current trend on Twitter.
5. Write a blog post about your favorite tweets or Twitter users of the week. Link back to Twitter profiles and blogs of the featured tweets for extra social networking juice.
6. Compliment your followers or thank them in public. Twitter users can be some of the friendliest and helpful people in the world – so if someone does something nice or helpful for you, let the whole Twitter-verse know!
7. Reply to more tweets daily. Take 5 or 10 minutes a day to reply to tweets. People may not tweet for recognition, but taking out the time to recognize a great quote, a useful link or a funny story can help strengthen Twitter relationships.
8. Retweet (RT) frequently, but don’t go overboard! Retweets can be great for filling up your tweet-stream, but mix things up with your own quotes, stories, commentary and links, too. The purpose of Twitter is to share your thoughts as well as those of others.
9. Share your followers’ resources with everyone. Does one of your tweeps have a great small business, list of useful web applications or a knack for solving computer issues? Let everyone know.
10.Write about Twitter users who provide value on a niche topic. Into social media? Open Source Software? Stamp collecting? Blog about the gurus of the field who are on Twitter and some of the things they talk about on your blog.
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August 25th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
All great tips really. Here is another idea. Once you have tweeted back and forth a bit with someone, occasionally take it to the Twitter relationship to the next level by talking or chatting on skype or any other IM platform. This will allow you to get to know your Twitter friends on a more personal level.
August 25th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Great addition and excellent point.
August 26th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Agree with Gerald, you can then spread your voice to other social media sites where your new friends are power users there.
August 26th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Great Tips!
I’m Re-Tweeting this.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:01 am
i just love Twittering compared to blogging. i was a blog addict and now i am a Twitter addict.
October 10th, 2009 at 1:44 am
Twitter is the newest craze today. i tweet at least 5 times a day on my friends just to keep them informed about my whereabouts. I still keep my personal blog though. ..
October 20th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
With these great twitter tips I should be able to improve my business.