If your target audience is compatible with the Twitter user profile, then you should devote time for regularly tweeting about matters your existing and prospective customers will find interesting and informative. Twitter has an array of uses and advantages for businesses and to optimally benefit from Twitter, here are some Twitter tips/tricks you might not know.
- Try to use as much as possible of the 160-character limit Twitter BIO space permits – seamlessly integrating apt keywords.
- Create your own background image to a recommended size of 1600×1200
- Take advantage of numerous third-party online tools and services that will enhance your Twitter experience. Also, effectively use the Twitter search tool.
- Engage followers but do not chase too many people – preferably limit it to 12. No one will like to follow someone who is following hundreds of people.
- Make it a point to retweet interesting and thought-provoking tweets. Participate in conversations with people having sizable number of followers.
- Exercise your imagination and create informative and interesting tweets. Tweet frequently and do not forget to add hastags to your tweets. Use special characters in your tweets.
- Become familiar with the Twitter lingo – @reply, Direct Message (DM), Follower, Hashtag, Retweet (RT), Trending Topics, and Tweet.
- Twitter lists are an extremely effective way of filtering the people you follow. Create and use Twitter lists.
- Opt to go mobile in keeping with times. Apple iPhones, Blackberry phones, Android phones and most of the other smart phones have Twitter applications. Exploit these applications.
- Mention your Twitter page in as many places as possible – your business card, e-mail signatures, web page, blog, Facebook, etc.
- Tweeteffect is an extraordinary tool you should not miss using. By searching for any Twitter username, you can see a summary of your tweets and which ones caused you to gain or lose followers. Use Tweetdeck for advanced search functions.
- Please know Optify is a social media monitoring tool that offers a free product for Twitter, allowing you to measure the success of your Twitter account.
- Share Screencasts on Twitter as it is an imaginative way to add a little bit of diverse content to your Twitter stream.
- Screenr is an app that enables you to quickly create screencasts. It also has the option to include an audio commentary.