Twitter

• Tweet regularly - the more active you are the more successful you will be
• Monitor who is following you - keep an eye out for undesirables
• Start by following people with influence in your industry
• Create links to own site in tweets
• Create link on own site asking people to follow you
• Use a program such as tweetdeck to monitor tweets
• Use www.twitpic.com to upload images
• Use @andprofilename to speak to a specific follower
• hastags are used to group tweets by a subject e.g. #subject
• Use direct messaging to speak to people directly about things you don’t want public
• Read www.useit.com/alertbox/twitter-iterations.html - great information on how your tweets should look and read so they are effective
• Ask questions, this will promote interaction
• Use www.twittercounter.com or www.twitteranalyzer.com for follower statistics
• Use www.twit.ie - a site to aggregate the live updates of scores of Irish Twitter users.

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