OK here we go! This is going to be the toughest part to get used to with Twitter, but don’t let it get the better of you because it really is not as difficult once you do it enough. Remember how you felt when you started Wealthy Affiliate? You thought that all of the website building and content creation was going to be such a hassle and now you do it all the time. It will be the same with Twitter.

WHERE DO I POST MY TWEET

The image above is of my Twitter Home Page. This is the page you will create your tweets on and it is also the page you get to see the tweet feed of those who you follow. At the top of the screen where it says “What’s happening?” is where you will type in your tweet. Note: As soon as you click on that field to start typing, that field will expand and you will see an “Add Photo” and “Tweet” buttons.

Yes you can add photos to your tweets and I highly recommend that you do that from time to time, more about this in just a bit. On the left side of the tweet feed is the Trends List, see below image. The Trends List will display the 10 most trending hashtags and/or words within your area and among those who you follow. You don’t have to use them but it’s nice to know them to help you gain more clicks.

WHAT A TWEET LOOKS LIKE

People are naturally fearful of learning something new but once they start doing it over and over again, it actually becomes easier. All you need to do is come up with a 1 or 2 sentence pitch. For example, let us say your niche website was on losing weight, you could tweet the following. Learn how to #loseweight without actually #exercising! Eat this food and shed pounds. Your Website Address.

That tweet comes out to only 107 characters and you still have 33 characters of the 140 maximum left to use. As you can see and read, that tweet is direct and to the point. It also speaks to your target audience. So what are you to do with the extra 33 characters? You could add another hashtag like I have in the below image, though most times you shouldn’t use more than 2 hashtags per tweet.

UPDATE, Even though the character count has now doubled to 280, as of November 7, 2017, the above training still applies. Though I would still recommend that you keep your tweets as short as possible, the extra character spaces will now help you to better describe what you wish to share. Remember to still be as brief as possible and do not use more than 2 or 3 hashtags per tweet.

NEXT UP = How to make your tweets more visually engaging.



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LucindaF Premium
Thanks again Robert for your great training. I have never used social media until now and am gradually getting the hang of it. This is great to help me with Twitter. I look forward to seeing your training on the other ones too - some I have never even heard of until recently!!!
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boomergp08 Premium
You are welcome Lucinda. I am happy that my training on the use of Twitter has been helpful to you. I wanted to make this training as clear and easy to understand as possible for those who are new to social media.

Being that it is important to use social media to advance the traffic and rankings of our websites, I will eventually be doing more training on the other social media networks as well.
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LucindaF Premium
Good. Will look forward to it.
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Prestones Premium
I have a quick question for you Robert - if your time permits.

When I did the Google search for #workfromhome and links to your content came up in positions 6 and 7, I noticed that your picture was adjacent to those search results. I thought Google Authorship was gone though. How did you manage to include an Authorship picture?

Thanks!

Dennis
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boomergp08 Premium
Yes Google Authorship is gone but not Author Rank and Google still wants to know who belongs to which website so that they can better rank you. This is why it is still important to set up a connection between your website and Google+.

Those images you are seeing are from two different Google+ posts of my website in which I used the hashtag #workfromhome. Being that my website is associated with my Google+ profile and I am the author it will show my Google+ profile image next to my links.
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DaveSw Premium
Good Info! Thanks and yet another way to introduce yourself to prospective leads! I will definitely be linking all my sites to my Google + page (Have done so with a couple to now)...Cheers!
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boomergp08 Premium
As I said above, it is still necessary to connect your website to Google+ and you do this within the training where Kyle instructs us to set up Google Authorship.

Though Google Authorship is dead the process of setting it up is actually the same as connecting your website to Google+. Authorship was only an option of website to Google+ connectivity.
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FHagstrom Premium
Robert, Thanks for another great training. I am definitely a social media newb and have been stumbling around trying to figure out how to use it properly.
This training was a big help for me and, to be immortalized on page 5 of one of your trainings is also an honor!
Can't wait for your training of Facebook as, I have absolutely no idea what to do there which is odd because, according to my Google Analytics, I receive more traffic from there than any of my other social media but, It is the one I use the least
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boomergp08 Premium
You are welcome Forrest. I figured you would probably like being seen in the image by all current and future WA members who read the training. :)

I'm happy you enjoyed the training and I will eventually be doing a training for both Facebook and Google+ in the near future.
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ClydeB Premium
Robert you killed this! Excellent work! You can take the amount of what I know about twitter and put it in the palm of your hand, but after reading this you may need a truck! Great teaching here Robert and very effective use of visuals and screenshots to reinforce the salient points
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boomergp08 Premium
Awesome! Thanks Clyde. I am happy that my training tutorial has helped you to better understand the workings of Twitter and I hope it will help you in your future social media marketing endeavors.
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ClydeB Premium
It certainly will Robert! Thanks again!
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SarahAnt Premium
Such an important post. Have kept this to look at later as I'm in the middle of implementing something else. And I definitely want to come back to this. I've never quite "got" the appeal of Twitter but I know I need to be proficient in it as other do see the appeal (my husband included - he refuses to use Facebook but loves Twitter!) thanks for this. It's started to look at early next week. Sarah
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boomergp08 Premium
Though I do not refuse to use Facebook, I do agree with your husband in that I would rather use Twitter over Facebook. And now that Twitter and Google have partnered, in that Twitter tweets are now being indexed into Google, it gives further reach for those who use Twitter for social media marketing than those who use any other social media network.
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SarahAnt Premium
Yes, I momentarily forgot about the fact that Twitter is now a Google product. Time to get tweeting! Facebook is easy for me to implement anyhow as I'm knowledgeable about it. I have got that set-up more or less and so not much to do. But need to spend a bit more time figuring out Twitter. As you can see, I can be rather verbose, so 140 characters is a tough call for me!!
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boomergp08 Premium
Yes, 140 characters is intimidating, especially for those of us that love to talk and have much to say. But once you start doing it, it becomes simpler and because it is short and to the point, more people tend to react to it more than a longer post from Facebook or Google+
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SarahAnt Premium
Well I will look forward to cominf back to this training in a few days time.
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