Twitter tips that will help you build followers

There are tons of helpful tips provided by many bloggers and marketing sites, but are they always effective? If you're a blogger and need exposure Twitter is a must have tool to use. Twitter is a micro-blogging web site that allows users to post 140 characters at a time. 

Twitter is for any website or business, and is totally FREE; it's one of the largest social networks out today with over 300 million users and hundreds of new members signing up each day. You will first need to get signed up here: Twitter to get started. Ounce you're all signed up there are a few things you're going to need to do like setting up your profile. I will try to provide you with help on completing your profile, filling out each section are very important because if you own a business, and want people to take you serious then this needs to be filled out accordingly. 

The first thing you're going to add is a photo to share, then your display name, click on your user name then choose ( Profile ) keep in mind you are limited to 160 characters, so make sure when you're adding you're information in the BIO section you add what contents you really want people to see and access.


Getting your Twitter page set-up

1-Picture: Add a photo you would like to share with your followers

2-Name: Now you can add your display name, example: CreativeBloggers, this is the first things visitors will see when they come to you're Twitter page.

3-Location:  Adding where you're from, example: FL, people often like to know were you're from it helps to make that connection.

4-Web: If you own a website or blog, you can add it in this section were you see web, example: http://www.creativebloggers.net/ each time someone visits your Twitter page they will have access to this link bringing you more traffic 

5-Bio: The bio section will be the most important aspect for your Twitter page because it will supply some personal Information about you, remember again your contents are limited, so only add what you would like people to know about your self.


Choosing a design for your Twitter page

Trying to customize your Twitter page is very simple considering there is not much to can really change. You can add your own background and maybe change the text colors, and even the side bar, but other then that there is not much more you can change.
  
6-Design: Click on the design tab located in your profile settings, you will be taking to a page were you can select a theme, change background image, and even change your design colors. After making the necessary changes just click on the save changes tab to complete all changes.

7-There are a number of setting tabs you should explore such as, Notifications, Applications, Mobile, Account, and a few others. These features allow you to install third party apps, that you can be utilize with your Twitter account.


Start promoting your Twitter page and gain followers

Promoting your Twitter page will take everything you got so hang in there and build up your followers list. There are a few ways you can do this, the first way is to use this tweet directory Justtweetit.com , you can find people that interest you instead of just following people of no interest.

Another way to gain followers is to brows other tweet users profiles to see if there is anyone that you would like to follow, but if you're like me you will find this can very time consuming, and may take you longer then expected to gain followers.

Posting your Twitter link and embedding is another way for people to find your page, If you have multi sites like I have, then you should place your twitter link on all of your web pages, including your email signature, the reason for this is when ever you send an email your twitter link will also be sent as well, giving people access to your twitter page.


Helpful tools to use with your twitter page

There are a number of tools you can use to help you better promote your twitter page, most of them are free, but some may cost you a few bucks. These tools will help you keep track of who is following you and allow you to integrate some of the best social media tools provided.


This first tool is call Unfollow, it will help you see who is following you, and also allow you to see who the inactive users are. This tool I use daily because I like to know if people are following me back as well..


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The next twit tips link to be posted is by a well known author
Darren Rowse, / Problogger. I think his Twitip is very informative and has just about all the information you're going to need to know about Twitter...