Daniel Offer is a partner in the well-known Facebook Messenger Chit Chat. Daniel also writes about Facebook, he recently wrote about writing great facebook status.
Twitter is the new big thing in social media circles. Since its launch in 2006, the site has been a huge success and its user count is still growing by the second. Admittedly, Twitter makes a terrible first impression. Try explaining it to a friend who hasn’t yet signed up. A social networking site made up entirely of status updates, and which only allows you to type 140 characters at a time? What’s the point of that?
But once you join Twitter you’ll discover that there’s so much more to it than that. It allows you to connect with the world in real-time and interact with people in other countries at the click of a button. Twitter is rapidly becoming a favorite amongst celebrities � Ashton Kutcher, Oprah Winfrey, Paris Hilton and even U.S. President Barack Obama have fallen for its charms and decided to join the ‘Twitterati’. This is because it offers them a safe medium to interact with their fans, let them know what they’re up to on a daily (or even hourly) basis and receive feedback from the masses of people who follow them.
‘Following’ a person on Twitter means signing up to their feed � you’ll receive an update whenever they change their status.
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5 Tips to Get More Followers on Twitter
If you want to build a large following, there are a number of things you can do.
- Be or become a celebrity. If you’re reading an article on how to increase your Twitter followers then chances are you’re not a celeb, as you would already have thousands of people following you.
- Choose a catchy and appropriate @name. This is the username you will go by on the site and it will always be preceded by the @ sign. The key to getting it right is to choose something which reflects your personality and at the same time intrigues people to click through to your profile and ultimately start following you.
- Write a stream of engaging, funny or informative tweets (the Twitter term for status updates) relevant to your target audience. However, don’t tweet too often � if you inundate people with useless information they will simply unfollow you (‘unfollow’ is anotherTwitter expression, meaning to stop subscribing to a person’s tweets). On the other hand, if you hardly ever tweet then you will lose people’s interest and they will click on the ‘unfollow’ button.
- Talk to people. Send tweets to other users, asking them questions, offering advice or simply to chat. And if someone writes to you, send a reply! It sounds obvious, but if you ignore people or can’t be bothered to answer a short, 140-characters-or-less sentence, then why should they waste their time following you? You could also try your luck and send a tweet to your favourite celeb � they often write back (but try not to be discouraged if they don’t � they receive a very high volume of tweets every day and don’t always have the time to reply.)
- Take advantage of Twitpic.com. If you have a Twitter account then you are already signed up to Twitpic � just enter your Twitter username and password and you’re in! This site enables you to add photos to Twitter � simply upload the picture and add a caption. A link to view the picture will be sent to your Twitter feed. This gives your followers something visual to look at rather than just an endless stream of words.