This document provides tips for new Twitter users. It discusses why Twitter is a useful platform, with over 100 million monthly users and 1 billion tweets sent per day. It then gives guidance on setting up a Twitter account, including adding a logo, background image, and profile. It advises starting to follow others in your niche or area and to tweet regularly, but not exclusively about your own business. The document also explains Twitter terminology and features like hashtags, retweets, direct messages, lists, and time-saving apps.

1. Twitter Tips for Newbies
Twitter is a great way to meet other
businesses, customers and connections online!
On Facebook you most likely already know them…
By Lisa, InspireToThrive.com, March 2012

2. Why Twitter?
• According to Comscore Twitter ranks right
behind Facebook with 35.4 million unique
visitors that spend an average of 24.4 minutes
on Twitter itself.
• Twitter currently has 100 million users a
month.
• Twitter is currently seeing 5 billion Tweets
every 5 days. That’s 1 billion tweets a day!

3. How To Prepare Your Account
• You need a logo or an icon - a small square size is best. If you
are having it made up it should be 73x73 pixels.
• A background image or creative thought up – You can use any
image as your tile image for the background or have one made
up professionally.
• Have your profile carefully put together – so when others find
you they’ll want to follow. You are allowed up to 160 characters
and it can include your web address or your “about page” of
your website.

4. Start Following and Tweet
• Now you need to follow some folks – find some in your niche,
your area or possible customers
• If you niche is broad – start on Twiends (A quick way to get
some followers)
• Start tweeting – Don’t always tweet about your business or
products, you can tweet quotes or interesting stories related to
your niche from the news or blogs (Only 25% of the time or less
should be about you otherwise its called push marketing)
• Re-Tweet – Tweeps love to re-tweeted and you’ll catch their
attention and they may tweet you back (Tweet Love)

5. Twitter Language
• Hashtags – look like this #food #restaurants #RI – makes it easy
for others to follow or sometimes folks will search via hashtags
for tweets. Friday is popular for #FF and #FollowFriday
• RT – Re-Tweet Always use RT@lisapatb if you are to re-tweet
me. Folks on Twitter love to be RT’d
• @ is the symbol to use before anyone’s Twitter Handle
• DM – A Direct message you may send on Twitter or receive –
you can also send direct messages to those that follow you too
• OH – Overheard – Someone is posting what they overhead
Today’s Hashtag #TwitterLesson

6. Tweet Here
Suggestions

7. Twitter Lists
• You can create up to 10 lists on Twitter
• Add twitterers to your list – For example I have lists for : local,
weather, media, social, SEO, bloggers, etc. You can get
creative with your list names too.
• Great to use when you have a lot of follows you can just view
tweets from your lists or if you are looking for something
special like local during a local event
• You can also subscribe to others list and others can subscribe
to yours unless you make it private

8. Next Lesson – How to Save Time
• The Buffer App
• Follow Friday App
• Hootsuite
• Tweetdeck
• And More!

9. Questions?