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Sep 11 2015

I’ve Hit My Twitter Follower Limit! Now What?

So you’ve been on Twitter a lot, and been following a whole bunch of interesting people. That’s great! What’s not great is if you follow so many people that you hit the dreaded “Twitter Follower Limit!”

What is the “Twitter Follower Limit”?

This limit is also known as the follower ceiling. Once you follow 2,000 other Twitter accounts, Twitter’s system blocks you from following any more until you increase your own followers to an acceptable ratio (here’s the official Twitter Support Page entry). It’s primarily meant to prevent spammers and unscrupulous users from flooding the system with unwanted follows, although regular people have regularly been caught in the cross-fire.

Twitter doesn’t give any details about the ratio calculation, and so nobody seems to know what the right follower/following ratio is. There are plenty of guesses, but the actual number appears to vary per person.

Wonderful. What do I do about it?

Don’t worry, all is not lost! Even if you hit the Twitter follower limit, there are still ways for you to follow new people. Here are what I’ve found to be the most effective methods:

Audit your followers. Not everyone you follow is following you back. That probably means they’re not interested in what you have to say. So therefore they won’t mind at all if you go ahead and unfollow them! Clear out some space for people who want to connect with you.

Also, weed out your followers who only tweet once in a while (like maybe once every few months). These some-time users aren’t online often enough for you to interact with on a meaningful basis, and probably will miss most of your big announcements, so go ahead and unfollow them, too!

Build a list and follow that. Twitter allows you to build lists of people that you want to follow, without you having to follow their individual accounts. You can stay up to date with their news and information without having them count towards your Twitter follower limit.

Who should you put on these lists? Celebrities or prominent figures would be my first suggestion. You still want to see anything they tweet, but they’re highly unlikely to follow you back or send you a DM. So off to the list they go! The same goes for companies or business accounts, as well as Twitter news accounts like TechCrunch or CNN.

Build up your followers. Lastly, you should increase the number of your own followers. You’re trying to build your audience anyway, right? So keep building those relationships and reaching out to new people. You might not know the ratio of follower/follows, but if you can replace most of your one-way follows with genuine Twitter relationships, then you’re doing great!

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Sep 04 2015

5 Essential Strategies for Authors on Twitter

In the old days, authors had to peddle their books by hand to their personal networks (and whichever bookstores were willing to carry them). But the rise of the Internet and social media has drastically changed things. Authors on Twitter can now reach people from all over the globe. Think about it! An author in Arkansas can have a lively discussion with a fan in Singapore, or anywhere else in the world!

Nothing ever comes easily, though. You need to know how to use Twitter properly to get the proper results. Here are some essential strategies you’ll need to adopt:

1. Know yourself and your audience

Before authors on Twitter can grow their audience, they need to establish who they are and who they want to talk to. Ask yourself these questions:

What is my book about?
Who is going to read my book?

These two questions will determine your target audience. These are the people you should be focusing on.

Build a Twitter profile that emphasizes your expertise (it should be related to your book). This is important, because people may check out your Twitter profile before deciding to follow you, and you want them to see that you know your stuff.

Next, search out the people likely to read your book and follow them. Not all of them will follow you back, but if they see from your profile and tweets that you’re interested in the same things, then there’s a higher chance they will.

2. Know your tools and when to use them

The first tool you should absolutely be using is Twitter’s Advanced Search tool. This is how you find people who share your interests and would make good contacts.

The next essential tool should be the venerable #hashtag. A tweet with a specific hashtag is more easily seen by people who follow / search for that hashtag. Master the hashtag, and you’ll be able to expand the reach of your tweets and jump into relevant conversations. But don’t overload your tweets with hashtags, though! A tweet with more than one or two hashtags can be very annoying and is actually counter-productive!

You can also take advantage of some very helpful software tools. Hootsuite is an excellent way for authors on Twitter to manage their feeds, schedule their posts, and build their audiences. Tools like SocialOomph automate your Direct Messages so you can automatically thank people who follow you. But don’t rely on automation too heavily. People don’t want to talk to a robot!

3. Reach out, but know the etiquette

Twitter is an engagement tool, and that means you have to get out of your shell and interact with people. Search out people who are talking about your areas of interest (whether it’s in a hashtag or just a few people tweeting each other) and jump in with helpful tips, resources or opinions.

But do not sell! Authors on Twitter must connect with people and engage, not push their book! It may sound backwards, but people will be more interested in looking at your book if they see you as a person, and see that you share their interests. If you want to promote your book in another way, quote some great passages from it instead (be sure to follow the and 20% promotional content).

4. Stay Focused

If you’ve ever spent more than ten minutes on the Internet, you know it’s really hard to keep your mind on what you’re doing. You could be looking through a list of hashtags for one you could jump into, and then see a tweeted link that’s totally unrelated but totally interesting! One thing leads to another, and two hours later you still haven’t connected with anyone!

Keep a tight rein on yourself and focus on the important tasks first: responding to your followers, engaging new ones, and setting up a tweet schedule. But hey, if it so happens that those interests converge—like your follower tweeting something interesting—then start a conversation about it!

5. Be Patient

Authors on Twitter simply must be patient. There are no shortcuts to getting genuine followers. The most successful Twitter personalities built up their audience over months and years of engaging with people.

The best things you can do are to stay true to your objective, be as genuine as possible, and have as much fun as you can!

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Sep 03 2015

Realtors: Build Awareness For Your Listings

Calling all real estate agents! Have you ever tried out using Twitter for your real estate business? Did you know that it is a powerful tool to build awareness for your business? But just how can Twitter help you?

Twitter Helps You Build Awareness

Twitter provides the perfect platform to communicate with your target clients. You can tweet about hundreds of different topics, including:

Tips about certain neighbourhoods #Leaside
Deals on hot properties #HomeForSale
Information about open houses #Listing #OpenHouse

Photos of your listings #Bungalow

And the list goes on. These types of tweets will increase the awareness of your business and listings with people who are interested in where and what you have for sale – and the more awareness you have, the more followers you gain, the more interest you’ll generate, the more people who know about you and your business. This is good for your sales pipeline.

Your Personality

A great advantage of Twitter is that it gives you an opportunity to show your knowledge and personality. With literally thousands of realtors in your region, your clients will do business with someone they know, like and trust. You can start to get known – do let your personality shine through. You can choose to be very professional or have a more casual voice, whatever you’re most comfortable with.

Hashtags Can Help

Never underestimate the power of hashtags on Twitter. Just what are hashtags? Check out this Nimble Quotes blog post on hashtags.

You can use hashtags to reference many things, from the area that you sell homes in or the type of homes you sell. Hashtags will categorize your tweets, so that when someone searches that particular hashtag, they will see all of your tweets that have included that hashtag. They are great tools to get more interaction and build awareness with other Twitter users who may not yet know you. Oh yes, and Google also indexes tweets – so your tweets can show up in Google searches now. Talk about double duty!

Have I convinced you yet? Go on, tweet about that #Leaside neighbourhood #listing you have an #openhouse for this weekend from 2-4.

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Aug 28 2015

How To Get More Interaction on Twitter

Tweeting can sometimes feel like talking into the wind. No matter how often you post fantastic sales, tweet web links, or choose quotes to attract new followers, you still don’t get very much engagement or interaction.

Getting interaction on Twitter isn’t impossible—other social media personalities do it all the time! Perhaps it’s time to review your approach. Here are a few best practices that some of the most popular Twitter personalities like Grammar Girl and Ann Handly follow:

Reach out to followers

Don’t just stay in your corner of the Internet! Step out of your cave and interact with people on Twitter (that’s what you’re there for, after all). And the first people you should talk to? Your followers!

Every time you get a new follower, reach out to them and give them a personal greeting. This creates a good first impression and will make them more open to interacting with you in the future. If you missed your chance to greet them, respond to one of their own tweets and join in on a discussion.

Reward followers who respond or reach out

Did your follower reply to you or give you a mention? Or did a follower retweet one of your quotes?

Fantastic! Show your appreciation by retweeting something if theirs, as well! Publicly thank them for their effort. They’re guaranteed to appreciate it. If you can get this cycle of mutual appreciation going, you’ll quickly have a dedicated following.

Don’t spam

But don’t abuse your access to your followers. People aren’t on social media to be sold to. They want a pleasant online experience where they can chat with cool people and maybe learn something new.

Spamming people with offers, sales, or other things will just turn them off. Remember the golden ratio: 20% promotional, 80% non-promotional.

Choose quotes that pop

If you’re struggling for content, choose quotes that appeal to your target audience. Talking to business people? Choose quotes from prominent entrepreneurs or managers like Bill Gates. You can even try quoting movies and films, as long as they’re relevant to your topic.

One thing that really makes quotes pop is having a matching visual image. If you choose quotes that are intellectually appealing and post them with images that are visually appealing, it’s more interesting to readers and may get you a lot more interaction.

Join Twitter chats

A Twitter chat is a pre-arranged chat on a specific topic, which is formed around a particular hashtag. The hashtag links all of the participants’ conversations together to form a pseudo-chat room on Twitter.

This is a great place for you to interact with new people and possible get new followers. You can provide helpful resources like blog links or answer questions. Just make sure the topic is relevant to you, and that you actually do know what you’re talking about. And if you don’t, you can always ask questions. The Twitter crowd can be very helpful!

Try out these tips, and let me know what kind of results you get! Better yet, tweet me and we can have that conversation online!

Reach out to me on Twitter at @jenkellyjen and let’s talk! I look forward to hearing from you!

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Aug 25 2015

How Hashtags On Twitter Will Help You

Did you know you can search Twitter a similar way as you search on Google? Did you know using hashtags on Twitter when you tweet can help your tweet show up in Twitter searches?

Hashtags are also very powerful tools for connecting and building a network on Twitter.

What Are Hashtags On Twitter?

Hashtags are keywords or phrases that begin with the hashtag symbol (#). Hashtags are used to categorize tweets. On Twitter, when you click on a word or phrase with the hashtag symbol before it, you will be taken to a page with a list of tweets that contain that same hashtagged word or phrase.

If you use a hashtag in one of your tweets, someone who doesn’t know you but is interested in that topic can see your hashtagged tweet. It’s a great way to generate more interest in what you post and more awareness for you and your business.

Hashtags On Twitter Help

Hashtags create a wonderful opportunity to build a network. Twitter allows you to search for millions of different topics, so you can look up hashtags specific to your work and interests. And Twitter shows you all of the tweets pertaining to the hashtag, not just the tweets of those you’re following. This way, you can get into conversations, follow, RT, or favourite tweets from people you don’t even know yet. What a great way to meet and get exposed to more people, companies, charities, conversations and events. Learn more with these 5 ways Twitter hashtags help you engage and get noticed.

Try It Out For Yourself

So take advantage of hashtags on Twitter and get searching. You’ll find interesting topics for discussion and new people to interact with. Here’s how to start.

To search on Twitter:
Go to https://twitter.com/search-home

Type in the hashtag of the topic you’re searching for information about. If you are not sure there is a hashtag for your topic, start typing and you’ll see the hashtags that are currently used for that topic.

In our example, we’ll use #SmallBiz.

Here is a screen shot of the most recent tweets with #SmallBiz. We’ve circled in red the hashtag #smallbiz in each tweet. This is why these tweets were brought up in the search.

Creating your own hashtag is also a great way to get your business into the conversations where your customers, clients and colleagues are, as well as potential customers, clients and colleagues. Find some more information on using Twitter hashtags for your business tweets by Stephanie Buck.

Try Out Quotes With Hashtags

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