Thanks for reading my Ultimate Guide on How to Use Twitter!
This is going to be a comprehensive guide that will help you get started with Twitter and also teach you how to use Twitter. It doesn't matter if you've never used it before because I'll be walking you step by step on how to get started. If you're already a Twitter guru hopefully you can still find a trick or two that I use to make my use of Twitter more effective. But first off, let's see what Twitter's all about.
What is Twitter?
A quick intro about Twitter. Twitter is a social media network like Facebook, Google+ or other social media networks you are familiar with but they work a bit differently. It's a way for you to communicate and stay connected with quick 140 characters or less of text, photos, videos or links called "Tweets".
Just to give you an idea of how HUGE Twitter is, they have over 300 million active users every single month. They have over 1 billion unique visits monthly to sites with embedded Tweets. That's pretty darnn huge and you can imagine how much exposure just one single Tweet will have with so many people on there.
Why Should I Use Twitter?
Like I said, Twitter has a huge user base and you have the potential of instantly reaching a ton of people through this social media network. If you are selling or promoting anything you know that traffic is key. Without any traffic, you won't be selling anything. Twitter allows you access to their huge user base and gives you an easy way to reach them.
Have you every heard of the term "Viral" marketing? You might be thinking of the medical term and thinking of a virus which is what this term is based upon. A virus can infect a host which in turn can spread the virus to other people who in turn infects other people and spreads rapidly.
This exponential growth can be applied to Twitter. When you post a tweet, your tweet can be "Re-Tweeted" or "Liked". This displays your tweet on the user's timeline of who made the action which means it's exposed to all their followers. Now let's say a couple of their followers like the re-tweet and in turn re-tweets it. Now it will show up on their timeline and is exposed to their follower list. Can you see the power of this? You can easily see how your tweet can be exposed to thousands of people in an instant! All this traffic can equal sales!
If you already have a website you can see that it's not easy doing SEO and getting your pages ranked high. If you don't get your page on the first page you aren't going to get very many hits. Twitter is a very effective way to get traffic and not have to worry about SEO. You can gain followers quickly and start promoting right away. Remember that even 1 retweet exposes your tweet to their network. That's a lot of potential traffic just from a single tweet! I'm not saying NOT to do SEO because SEO is very important. I'm saying it's better to have different streams of traffic so you don't solely have to rely ONLY on SEO.
What Will This Guide Cover?
There's a TON of stuff to learn about Twitter but I'll go over the features that make it most effective for us. This will comprise of 10 lessons.
We'll cover a variety of topics that include:
- Lesson 1: Getting Started - Step-by-step guide on how to signup for Twitter
- Lesson 2: Account Overview - An intro on how to setup your profile setup and account overview
- Lesson 3: Twitter Lingo and Guidelines - Explain basic Twitter terminology like RT, TT, etc as well as go over what you can and can't do on Twitter
- Lesson 4: Tweeting - Information on how to tweet, use of links, images, videos, hashtags, retweets, likes
- Lesson 5: Lists - Lists - group accounts for better use
- Lesson 6: Keyboard Shortcuts - learn how to navigate Twitter efficiently
- Lesson 7: Searching - Learn how to search effectively in Twitter
- Lesson 8: Building Your Network - Tips and tricks on what I did to get followers including free tools that I've used
- Lesson 9: Twitter Ads - Paying to promote on Twitter
- Lesson 10: Twitter Analytics - Analyzing your Twitter account
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There's definitely a lot to cover so I broke it down into a "Course" style where you'll go through lesson by lesson, completing each one before moving on to the next. Hopefully I've made it easy enough for you to follow but if you have any questions along the way, feel free to leave me a message in the comment section below on each page.
If you have any comments or questions, please leave them in the comment section below.
Now let's get started!
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Here's an article about getting your tweets to go viral
https://blog.bufferapp.com/3-ways-to-easily-go-viral-on-twitter
but I think I pretty much covered it in my Lesson 8: Building Your Network section. You can also search for trending tags and see if you can take advantage of them.
I'll come back to this when I'm ready... it sounds very time consuming. I barely have enough time to add content to my sites. How many hours a day would you estimate you spend on twitter?
I talked about some good online tools that really help automating things in Lesson 8: Building Your Network.
I recycle my tweets with TweetJukeBox so it gets spread around without me having to manually tweet them.
I use CrowdFire to manage my list by adding back people who have interacted with me as well as removing those who have unfollowed me to maintain a good follow-follower ratio. You can also schedule your tweets with CrowdFire.
I use TraffUp to help get my tweets retweeted.
So everything is pretty automated. What I do in the morning is just check on my notifications in Twitter to respond to anyone interacting with me an add them if I don't already follow them. Then I do a search on Twitter for things related to my niche and retweet some of the interesting ones. Every time I have a new blog post, I will tweet it then I will add it to the TweetJukeBox queue so it'll get recycled automatically. Maybe if you don't have many tweets to recycle you should just manually do it for now but as you get a big list this definitely helps. Especially since you don't have to sit in front of the computer to post the tweet because it's scheduled automatically.
Read Lesson 8: Building Your Network for more info.
example when tey rolled out the video call feature in facebook about 5 years ago, they rolled it out regionally and gradually (to test it before just rolling it out world wide all at once.) it could be a similar thing!
here's an idea, try going through a proxy so your twitter account thinks you're in North america and therefore gives you the north american version?
use HOLA chrome extension for that....u can also watch tv from different countries with that...hulu, netflix, bbciplayer, anyone? lol
neat little extension that is! works a treat too!
Here are some other resources where you can find Twitter trends for Australia:
http://trendsmap.com/local/australia
http://trends24.in/australia/
