I found some great information by Jaime (last name unknown) on her blog, She's Baty Designs, about using Twitter, so I thought I would share. This advice looks good whether you are a newbie, or someone who currently uses Twitter.
1. Follow your followers! this is the best way to make sure you don't lose any people who start following you.
2. I
use "twitter karma" to find out who's not following me so I can
unfollow them. You'll find this REALLY helpful to deal with people who
follow you only until you follow them back (and then they unfollow you
right away - not cool!). Once you see
who's not following you, just click on their name to manually
unfollow them. I use twitter karma every few weeks (or when I
can't follow anymore people) to clean up my account (and keep my twitter
account growing). Here's the link:
3. On buzzom.com, you can bulk unfollow people who are no longer following you. You can only unfollow 25
at time but just keep clicking "more" until there isn't any more... then
click "flush" again and you'll get the rest of the people who aren't
following you. Here's the link: http://www.buzzom.com
4. I use twitterfeed.com so all my new Etsy listings get tweeted. I
also use it for new flickr uploads :) Be sure to add hash tags when
setting up these feeds. For example, on my Etsy feed I have #etsy added
to the end of every Etsy tweet. This will help people find me when they
search hash tags on twitter. Here's a helpful link for hash tags: http://hashtags.org/
5. To
find people to follow in your target audience, check out the lists
people have already made. Lists are groups of people that someone has
collected because these people tweet about certain things - Etsy for
example. You'll find these lists on the right side of people's twitter
profiles. Go to the profile of someone you are following (or check out
etsy's twitter profile) and look for "etsy", "crafty" or "handmade"
lists. You'll find lots of great Etsians to follow on these types of
lists. I'm in a lot of Etsy, crafty and handmade lists so you can also
check out my profile to get you started: http://twitter.com/shesbatty
6. To
set up tweets to post later (when you're not going to be at the
computer for example), use hootsuite.com. I've found this to be the most
useful site for "tweeting later". This is a great way to set up a bunch
of tweets at once without bombarding your followers. It's also a great
way to get some tweets out there during times that you wouldn't normally
be at the computer so you're reaching the most amount of people.
7. Make
sure you set up your twitter profile completely. Have an avatar! I
usually won't follow anyone that doesn't have an avatar (that icon that
shows up when you tweet). 9 times out of 10 if the person doesn't have
an avatar (and just has the twitter bird as their picture) they are a
spammer and/or questionable. Be sure to add your Etsy or blog link
to your profile and write a little bit about yourself. It's also
helpful to include your location (State/Province and Country is usually
sufficient) and "Etsy" in the "name" section of your profile. For
example "She's Batty on Etsy". This will help people find you when they
are making groups or lists (especially if they are using TweetDeck - the
app I use to make using twitter WAY easier).
8. Don't spam with auto DM's (direct messages)! This is one of the fastest ways to get yourself unfollowed.
9. Don't just post links to your "stuff". If you're only going to take about yourself, soon you'll only BE talking to yourself!
10. Retweet interesting and helpful posts from other people.
11. Interact with other tweeters - reply to their messages, ask them questions, congratulate them on sales, etc.
12. Aim
to tweet at least every few hours (but NOT every few minutes - don't
overwhelm the system with a million tweets per minute!).
13. Keep
your tweets interesting. Vary from links, to questions, to
observations, to "regular" stuff. Share all your fav finds on the web
and try to be as helpful as possible. But try to keep links to a minimum
so you don't get reported for spamming (you can do this easily but
offsetting link tweets with another non-link tweet).
14. It's OK to block "questionable" followers. This will mean different things to different people, just go with your gut.
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