10 awesome Twitter tricks

By Partho, Gaea News Network
Friday, June 5, 2009

twitter_logoEvery Twitter users is looking for the ladder to boost his/her following. You might be one of them trying to increase your Twitter followers. You must be looking for more public reading your updates. For sure you must be tired of trying out weirdest things to build followers in Twitter. It’s not tricky to build a famous profile, but it’s significant to start with the right understanding. Most commonly people try things like tweeting interesting stuffs that spreads with RTs to grow your twitter account into a solid distribution channel. Posting a lot of how-tos microblogs won’t help actually, for they get repetitive. what you need to understand is that Twitter is a community for interaction and it is also an effective marketing platform. Why not make the best of Twitter. To make things easier for you we decided to provide you with the 10 awesome Twitter tricks to enhance your experience.

1. Replying to hash tags

Reply to the #hash tag meems. In search.twitter.com you get the list the hot trending topics. Just look for the #hash topics and get on with the conversation

2. How to Add Retweet Button in Your Post within 30 seconds

To add the retweet to your website here is a simple trick that was provided in our blog.

Just copy and paste this following code on your blog template where you want the widget to be displayed.

< script type=”text/javascript” src=”https://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js”>< /script>

p.s: Get rid of the spaces between < script and < /

3. Larger Tweets of 240 character

For this you will require BigTweet. To enable the BigTweet you can drag the given link to your bookmarks toolbar.

Link

4. SMS the tweet to your account.

Follow what’s provided below to SMS tweets from your phone

  1. Log into your Twitter account
  2. Now click on the Settings tab up in the top, right-hand corner of your account
  3. At the top of the page you find the Devices tab, Click on it
  4. Insert your phone number in the box in the following format: (your area code)(your phone number)
  5. Check the box and click Save.

5. Know When Others Talk About You

For this you would require TweetBeep. The alerts can be about anything, such as your name, user ID, website URL, etc. Whenever someone tweets about these you will get an email.

6. Provide Bio link

You should provide people hundred reasons to return to your Twitter page. If they click via a post link or bio link services like twittersplit.com can be of help. However, you should not overuse it. You can use TwitterSplit in creative way to add a BIO LINK that is very different.

7. Tracking and Monitoring on Twitter

For tracking on Twitter you can use Tweetburner.com and/or Google Analytics. Monitoring can be done by the keyword searches or filtering using the services like TweetDeck.com, or TwitScoop.com.

For this follow the steps below

Step 1: Prepare your Twitter Post

Step 2: Add a method of tracking (URL click counts or destination page analytics)

Step 3: Monitor activity to search for keywords unique to your post.

With tracking and monitoring you can be a step ahead in Twitter

8. Quickest Way to Visualize Data Mine

There a number of ways through which you can view your Twitter information faster.

Through Twitter Blocks you can easily navigate your Twitter community of friends and followers.
With Tweetstats you get know who used twitter via the web to send notes on a particular day and more.

9. Know whom to Follow on Twitter

There are some users you might be interested in following, you can get them on MrTweet. The Twitterbot collects data from your tweets and the people you are following to provide you the right links.

10. How to Schedule a Tweet Later

With Tweet Later you can schedule your tweets for a later date. There are much more features in Tweet Later. For instance,Tweet Later can send you an hourly email that is a digest of @replies. Use the Gmail filter to get the text message to your phone alerting you of the digest.

or you can read our article on how to schedule tweets in three ways

Discussion
October 27, 2010: 3:13 pm

Great tricks to know for building a following!


Mayank
August 3, 2010: 5:34 am

I like these tricks…

Thanks for sharing..

July 8, 2010: 6:25 am

This information is very useful.
Thanks for sharing.
I also would like to share more about twitter–tricks.
check this blog I found yesterday..

twitter–tricks.blogspot.com

March 7, 2010: 11:20 pm

that’s pretty cool tricks..awesome stuff..

January 15, 2010: 4:35 am

Good work man! Tweetstats & Tweetlater are really good applications. Rightnow I am using tweetlater for twitter automation.

January 8, 2010: 8:58 pm

Great post, some very useful tips here. I will be putting these into practice and let you know how I get on.

December 25, 2009: 9:37 am

Thanks for the usefull post..really helped me a lot..!

December 11, 2009: 9:43 am

Great post! Who else is curently using big tweet?

December 9, 2009: 4:02 am

thats some cool tips,n hope get twitter more interesting after using some of these.
thnx

November 28, 2009: 5:58 am

I have an rss feed built into my twitter so it is pretty easy thy just follow me and then check out all my new articles.

June 7, 2009: 5:39 pm

Hey,

I’ve used many of these sites to improve my twitter experience and have used some of my own tricks as well.

I just tried big tweets - good tool, thanks for the tips…

June 6, 2009: 5:01 pm

Hey Thanks for useful post. very handy!!

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