Below is a listing of our favorite Twitter tips and tricks. These tips will help make your Twitter experience more enjoyable and can help increase your followers.
Customize
- Change your profile picture. Use a picture of yourself to make it seem more personalized if this is your personal Twitter account.
- Utilize as much of the 160-character limit Twitter BIO space allows. Include keywords your followers or potential followers may be searching for.
- Create your own background image. However, do not make the image too much like an ad or sales pitch. The background image must be less than 800k and we recommend a size of 1600x1200 for a large image or smaller if you plan on tiling the image or just having it on the left-hand side. Finally, keep in mind that smaller resolutions and monitor sizes will hide much of the background.
Third-party tools
- Take advantage of the hundreds of different third-party online tools and services that enhance your Twitter experience. Below are a few of our favorites.
- TwitPic - Take advantage of TwitPic to post pictures on your tweets. If you want to post pictures while away from the computer, use the Twitterific app.
- Qwitter - Great service that sends an e-mail any time someone unsubscribes from your Twitter profile and mentions a possible Twitter post you made that may have caused them to leave.
- Manageflitter - Fantastic site for managing your followers and getting an easy to read overview of people not following you back, quiet users, and inactive users.
- WeFollow - Great website that allows you to add yourself to a listing of Twitter users by tags you find interesting.
- SocialOomph - Another great service with a collection of free Twitter tools including the ability to schedule when a tweets gets posted.
- Tweetbeat - An excellent site that takes the trending topics on Twitter and gives you a clearer explanation of present and past trending topics.
- TwitterMeme - Another great location to find the hottest links on Twitter.
- Twitter Grader - Great service that grades any Twitter account and gives you additional details and ranking information.
- Twitter Fan Wiki Apps - Finally, this wiki has a listing of several hundred different Twitter applications and tools for users wanting more.
Use Twitter search
- Take full advantage of the Twitter search tool. Below are just a few tips that can help improve your search capabilities on Twitter.
- Search for your website or blog URL and see if others are mentioning your page.
- Search for anything near you by adding near:"city state". For example, typing near:"Salt lake city Utah" club would return current tweets that have happened in Salt Lake City, Utah with the keyword club in them.
- Find people who you may enjoy following by searching for keywords that interested you.
- If you do not want tweets with links add ? -filter:links at the end of your search query.
- Need more options, use the Advanced Twitter search .
- Any time you get excellent results click the "Save this search" button to save that search. These searches can then be found under "Saved Searches" on the right-hand part of your profile on the old Twitter interface or under the "Searches" tab next to your timeline on the new Twitter interface.
Followers
- Engage followers.
- Do not follow too many people. No one is going to follow someone who is following thousands of people but only has 10 followers.
- Retweet interesting posts.
- Retweet and participate in conversations with people with a lot of followers.
- Realize it is impossible for anyone to read every tweet.
- When first joining do not follow hundreds of people, doing this may mark you as a bot.
Create useful and interesting tweets
- Try making all your tweets informative, useful, or funny.
- Do not post mundane posts, eg eating a bowl of cereal.
- Add hastags to your tweets. For example, if your tweet is about computers, consider adding #computer in the tweet.
- Tweet frequently. No one is going to follow someone they do not know who has not tweeted in months. Try at the very least to tweet a few times a week or daily if you can manage.
- Do not whine or complain. Everyone will unfollow anyone who constantly whines or complains.
- Try making your valuable tweets during the times people will most likely see them.
- Keep some space available in your tweet in case someone retweets your post.
- Use special characters in your tweets .
Know the lingo
Know the Twitter lingo, these are just a few examples: @reply , Direct Message (DM) , Follower , Hashtag ,Retweet (RT) , Trending Topics , and Tweet . See the Twitter description for a full listing of Twitter terms and Lingo and related terms.
Create and use lists
Twitter lists are an excellent method of filtering filter through the people you follow. To create a list, click the Lists link and then Create a list . After creating a list visit the persons profile page you wish to add and click the list icon, as shown in the picture to the right. Our Computers and Tech list is an example of a public list we created.
Apple iPhones, Blackberry phones, Android phones, Windows phone 7 phones, and most of the other smart phones have Twitter applications. Take full advantage of these applications. For users who do not have smart phones Twitter also has extensive support for SMS , which can send tweets over a text message.
Advertise
Mention your Twitter page as many places as you can, eg your business card, e-mail signatures, web page, blog, Facebook, etc.
Create a tweet button or at least your Twitter name on your pages, similar to the below examples.
Actions for tweets:
- Click “f” to favorite a tweet (must have an individual tweet open; test it here )
- Click “r” to reply to a tweet (must have an individual tweet open; test it here )
- Click “t” to retweet (must have an individual tweet open; test it here )
- Click “m” to send a direct message (must have an individual tweet open; test it here )
- Click “n” to create a new tweet (can do this on anywhere on Twitter)
- Click “Enter” to see tweet details (must use navigation shortcut “j” first to make this one work; test it here )
- Click “l” to close all open tweets (open a few tweets using the “Enter” shortcut and then try closing them)
Navigation:
- Click “Shift” and “?” for a list of all keyboard shortcuts.
- Click “j” to go to the next tweet (can do on homepage or your timeline).
- Click “k” to go to the previous tweet (can do on homepage or your timeline).
- Click the space bar to page down.
- Click “/” to search.
- Click / to jump to the search box.
- Click “.” to load new tweets.
Timelines
- Click “g” then “h” to go home.
- Click “g” then “c” to go to the Connect page.
- Click “g” then “m” to go to your direct messages.
- Click “g” then “d” to go to the Discover page.
- Click “g” then “p” to go to your profile.
- Click “g” then “f” to go to your favorites.
- Click “g” then “m” to go to your direct messages.
- Click “g” then “u” to search for any user's timeline.
Post images from Flickr
Flick to Twitt is a nice app that allows you to instantly share your photo uploads in Flickr , back to Twitter. This is a useful app as there is a correlation between active Flickr users and Twitter users. Though there are plenty of photo sharing services available through Twitter, such as twitpic or Yfrog, Flick to Twitt offers a simple one-click process to tweet your Flickr uploads instantly. You don't need to create a separate profile, simply add your Twitter and Flickr logins and you can instantly share links to your photos. Find trending topics
Twopular is a useful site that allows you to find the trending topics on Twitter, split by hours, weeks, months and the past year, allowing you to access archived trending topics. While the homepage of the site provides lots of useful information on current trending topics, there's lots more you can discover by clicking further, such as the ability to compare trending topics, adding in your own search terms to compare to the trends offered. Their 'sparklines' are also particularly interesting, allowing you to see peaks in trends over time, with the option to drill down further to see particular results:
Find deals on Twitter
This Twitter coupon search is a handy tool that allows you to see which deals are currently being shared on Twitter. You can search by keyword or type to see a current Twitter stream of people sharing offers in real-time. What I like about this is that it adds some authority to deals. Though there are plenty of deal aggregator sites, the user experience is often messy, leading to old links or offers that aren't always legitimate. As this is based on links being shared, there is an element of trust in the results. You can click right next to a result to claim that coupon code.
11. Browse your Twitter friends
This is a very cool site that allows you to easily track connections with other new users and discover new people to follow. To use the app, simply put in your own (or any) Twitter username to bring up your latest connections. You can then click on the avatar for the profiles returned, to instantly see their own latest followers, tracking your connections between the two. By continually clicking and dragging you can build out the connections returned, making it incredibly easy to find new people to follow. Warning: it can get a little addictive.Did we miss one? Please share your thoughts and let us know the top tools, apps and tips you think should be on this list in the comments.
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