Twitter Tips and Tricks
Topic
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Details
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Tools and Terminology
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- Tweet = 140 character update
- Retweet (RT) = sharing another’s tweet
- Hashtag (#) = makes a word easily searchable
- Mention (@) = notifies user you were talking about them
- Direct message (DM) = allows you to privately communicate with other users
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How to Gain Followers
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- Follow others
- Engage in trending topics
- Retweet or mention users you’d like to gain as followers
- Find a niche
- Have a catchy bio
- Link to Facebook
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Organizing Followers
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- Start with your interests
- Follow organizations you support
- See who Twitter suggests
- Create lists to make tweets more manageable
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General Use
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- Keep tweets short (limited to one at a time)
- Use DMs (direct messages) sparingly
- Twitter has a built-in URL shortener so you don’t need to use an outside service to shorten URLS
- Avoid going over tweet and follow limits: tweet limits are 100 tweets per hour or 1000 tweets per day, while follow limits depend on the size of your account
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Privacy and Security
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- Review and update your settings
- Change your password often
- Change settings so that followers require approval
- Don’t share private information
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Source: http://www.wikihow.com/Sample/Twitter-Tips-and-Tricks
