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What others see when on your pagewww.twitter.com/krusk

What you see when you login (home)

11 Things to Remember to Succeed with Twitter…

11. Build a profileWho would you rather follow?

10. Find people to follow

Until you build up some Twitter cred.. Avoid following people you don’t know!

(Once you have some tweets & followers it’s all good)

9. Get used to 140 Characters

URL Shortening services:http://idek.net (tracks links)http://is.gd (makes shortest!)

See, this is exactly 140 Characters. It's actually not that much when you've got a lot to say and it can be a challenge to edit your tweets.

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8. Listening vs. tweeting

Think of the 80/20 Rule:

Spend 80% of your time on Twitter listening--reading other tweets…

And 20% writing your own.

7. Ask yourself: “Who cares?”

Oddly enough… this person only has 10 followers…

6. Put yourself out there!(don’t protect updates)

If you *want* to keep your tweets private, go right ahead…

… but you won’t get many followers!

5. Promote cool stuff(and not just your own)

4. Join the conversationReply to another user: type @ before user name:

Add a short tag with # to join a group discussion

3. Learn three ways to tweet

Stuck on what to say? Try these common types of tweets

Ask a question…

Share a resource or wisdom…

Report on news and/or events…

2. Try some Twitter Apps

1. Be yourself & have fun!

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Kelly Rusk@krusk

kellyrusk@gmail.comhttp://www.web2dotwhat.com