Twitter is most commonly described as a
micro blogging site which in easy terms can be called a service among the
members, as a family to stay connected with short questions or answers.
It’s a platform for communicating in a
new way and finding people of same interest. This site is called a micro
blogging site because messages posted on this site are just 140 characters in
maximum. These messages are called Tweets.
We can say Twitter is a Social networking
site because rather than see everyone’s tweet or just of your own tweets, you
can choose whose tweet to read and reply to. Your tweets can be seen by the
persons who opted to read your tweets by becoming your followers.
Now as you reply to someone’s tweets
means now this is not a micro blogging site it is making connection between two
persons or groups in very short time. Imagine a home party and as simple as you
express your views about the drinks or food.
My motive of writing this blog is to make
my friends & bloggers who still don’t understand as to how Twitter can turn
their blogs into Goldmine.
As you can see sign up page it’s very
simple and user friendly. Choose you user name to something which you can
relate to, that’s very important to have a good name. Twitter will help you to
choose a right name, check the green text for that also proves that you are
human, and fill the catch. You can join Twitter with any valid email id.
Now
after logging into, you can post your tweets and view what other persons had
tweeted. Invite all your friends using
friend invitations from twitter website. Twitter is friendly with mostly all of
the popular email servers. Who to
follow, Twitter will provide you to follow 20 people you can choose them from a
big list. They can be celebrity, politicians, famous musicians, painters &
whatever.
You should follow them with count or how popular are they. If you don’t find them in list from Twitter, you can do it on your own using search on twitter page by searching for desired name
You should follow them with count or how popular are they. If you don’t find them in list from Twitter, you can do it on your own using search on twitter page by searching for desired name
Twitter.com/anil_4230 (That’s me).
When you click on this link you can find me there and all my tweets and if you clicked “follow “, then you can share all my tweets in real time.
When you click on this link you can find me there and all my tweets and if you clicked “follow “, then you can share all my tweets in real time.
You can reach to your home page by just
clicking Twitter logo, as shown below.
Image – Who is here?
Sending tweets:
Sending your tweets is very important
task as you can see in the figure shown above There is a space provided to
write in your tweets there is a word calculator there to help you to count the
words , maximum limit is 140 characters so be precise. Clicking on Ok button will send your tweets
to persons or followers who opted to read your tweets.
Sending URL with text: You can send your
hyperlinks to your posts which will be converted to a new one. This service is
provided free of cost to users by tinyurl.com. Now you can find a lot of such
link shortening websites such as ad.fly, bit.ly, snip.url and a lot of them.
Replying a Tweet:
Someone tweeted and you read his tweet
& now you want to comment on that. For commenting purpose move your mouse
to the right side of message you can see there one star and one arrow. Star is
for marking your favourite and the arrow allow you to comment on. So click on,
whatever you would like to do. Clicking on reply the username of person will be
prefixed with @ symbol that is to tell Twitter it’s a reply to user’s tweet and
you can continue typing the text. To post now we would be clicking on reply
button.
Now whenever I check in Twitter I can see
all the replies or comments on my tweets by clicking @ replies on the right
side of twitter webpage
You can also send Direct Messages to persons;
sometimes it is not necessary to tell all of your followers you can simply
choose anyone. Use capital D give one space Type the name of person & you
can send this to only the person you selected.
My setting:
You can customise your Twitter account as
follows:
1.
Accounts tab : click to change your user name, email and other informationabout you.
2.
Password tab : you can change
or edit your passwords by this key.
3.
Devices tab : This is very
important tab. You can configure your mobile for sending your updates using
your mobile phone. Mostly all operators provide free services to do so, you can
opt this service with you telephone
operating company.
4.
Notice tab: You can amend this
tab on how many and on what subject twitter should mail you .
5.
Pictures : Twitter allow you
to upload a picture of yourself so that your followers can see you or your
brand image, for this maximum size is 700 Kb. You must use this feature because this gives you authentication among
your followers.
What’s more on Twitter
Re-Tweet : A lot many times we see some
good tweets and wished if I would have written this. You cannot steal someone’s
tweet that’s considered bad in twitter so this word Re-tweet has been invented.
Its called RT in short form. By re-tweeting
you are simply giving the credit to author and sharing it with your
followers. The process to do the same is as of replying.
Re-tweeting can increase followers of the
person who initially wrote that tweet. So you have to manage in a form that your tweets should be
re-tweeted. There is no formula for that, only your efforts and quality of text
depends.
Hashtag :
The wonderful thing about
live-tweeting is that it's so easy: you don't need anything other than Twitter
itself and a little bit of time. Justin Timberlake conducted his #AskJT Q&A
session from the plane. You can live-tweet from the green room. You can
live-tweet from the cab. You can live-tweet from home. You can live-tweet...
right now
The first step is easy: use a specific
hashtag in your Tweets to set them apart from your day-to-day output and
provide context for your followers. If you're live-tweeting about an event, the
hashtag ensures that your Tweets will be part of the larger conversation, too.
(For instance, if you were tweeting about the Emmy Awards, you'd use the
hashtag #emmys.) On the other hand, if you're creating a Twitter event of your
own, you can create an original hashtag to go with it. The Rock started a live
Q&A called #RockTalk in late August 2011:
Over the course of two hours of live-tweeting,
his followers were treated to candid responses from one of their favorite
personalities:
Play to your strengths
Focus on the kind of Tweets that only you
can create. If you're tweeting an event, that could mean sharing your insider
perspective, especially if you're behind the scenes or sitting in the audience
yourself. You know your style and your strengths: will you simply report on
what's happening or share strong opinions? Will you answer questions from your
followers or keep it one-way? Will you play the role of the expert or the
explorer? The key is to do what comes naturally to you.
Trey Wingo is one of the hosts of NFL
Network's NFL Live, but he uses Twitter on game days to keep his followers up
to date on everything that's happening across the league. He throws out
facts...
and comments on big moments:
He's become the go-to football
live-tweeter, providing an insider perspective for everyone who cares about the
sport.
Add photos
Photos resonate on Twitter, especially when
they show scenes that your followers don't usually get to see.
Don't underestimate the power of a
zoomed-in detail: you can show your followers what shoes you're wearing or who
you're sitting behind at the big award show. For example, check out this great
Tweet from Lea Michele during the Emmys:
The technical side of live-tweeting
When you live-tweet, you always need to
be aware of which followers are seeing which Tweets. In general, you can be
liberal with @replies; most of them won't show up in your followers' timelines
unless they also follow the person you're talking to.
For example, this Tweet is only visible
to the followers of @TwitterMedia who also follow @TheCloser_TNT:
But this Tweet is visible to all of
@TwitterMedia's followers because the @ symbol comes in the middle of the
Tweet:
Therefore, one good approach for a
Q&A is to retweet a question to all of your followers, then answer it with
a Tweet of your own, making sure not to start the Tweet with a @reply, because
you want all your followers to see it. That's whatJustin Timberlake did when he
conducted his #AskJT session in July 2011.
First, he retweeted a question from a
fan...
...then, he answered it with a Tweet of
his own:
You can also quote a Tweet and respond
with one or two words of your own. That's what Kyra Sedgwick did when she
live-tweeted the summer finale of her show "The Closer" in September
2011:
There are many ways to get the right
Tweets out to the right people. The key is to understand that when you @reply to
a Tweet, it's not guaranteed that all of your followers will see it, so you
need to plan for the effect that you want.
How many Tweets?
It's important to realize there's no
predefined optimal number of Tweets to send in a live-tweeting session. You've
got to do what feels right. Tweet when you're inspired. If you're not inspired:
just answer questions, or play reporter and comment on events as they unfold.
If a live-tweeting session just doesn't
take off: that's fine. Call it a day and wait until next time. But conversely,
if you're getting great engagement and your followers are @replying you and
retweeting you like crazy, there's nothing they want to hear more than:
"Okay, you know what? I'll stick around for another fifteen minutes."
Of course, you should be conscious of
that fact that you're tweeting more than normal, and possibly filling up some
followers' timelines—but don't stress. Time and time again, we see that
live-tweeting leads to follow growth.
During a screening of his film
"Private Parts" on HBO in February 2011,
Howard Stern tweeted a live commentary track to his followers. He shared insights that
you'd never get just watching the movie:
He sent hundreds (!) of Tweets over the
course of the movie's airing, and that provides an important insight: When you
sit down to live-tweet, you don't know how many Tweets you'll send. There is no
quota—no right or wrong number. That said: for most people, tweeting every
minute is too much (unless your current situation is incredibly unique) and
tweeting less than four times in an hour is too little.
Remember this is not the time to drive
traffic back to your website. You want your followers to stay engaged here on
Twitter—to keep @replying and retweeting you. So feel free to tweet a link, but
do it only at the very end of your live-tweeting session.
No time like the present
Thank You : There is a way to thank a person for his work
or tweet. You just RT it, re-tweet it.
Tools :
There are lot of links and websites for providing you with tools but
tweetdeck is one of the best. You can calibrate this tool with your browser.
You can read my post how to make your browser work faster, for this purpose.
For mobile users: you can check this link
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter/id333903271?mt=8
This will allow you to download software
and handle multiple accounts.
blog credit- twitter & some other websites. Thank you all.
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