2. What is Twitter? Why do people Tweet? What you can use Twitter for?
3. Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service Tweets: text based message sent via Twitter. up to 140 characters Followers: Subscribers to the author’s page @Hdean @Kadidid
15. Top 20 Twitter Tips ▪ Squeeze information on your Twitter background - information about yourself ▪ get interesting photo ▪ show interest in others by responding to their tweets: @, RT, ▪ instead of sharing just the links, include comments or ask a question along with it (express your opinion) ▪ RT: tweet about other people's stuff ▪ create categories ▪ use D for one-one conversations where public does not need to hear it ▪ monitor specific topics relevent to you ▪ you don't have to read every tweet ▪ Use URL shorteners that offer analytics (traffic) (bit.ly, Ow.ly) ▪ Use twitter search, and save your key word phrases to monitor topics of interest to you ▪ Engage appropriately - use that to find relevant followers ▪ If you need to promote the info, Tweet the same things more than once (because Twitter is a real time conversation) 1-5% click rate
