I’ve been
on Twitter for quite a while, however I’ve just started embracing the social
networking tool as a way to connection, share and learn.
My goal for
the rest of the year was to increase my followers in a big way. So, I did some
Some of my rules of
practice:
1.
Always thank followers with a Tweet including
their Twitter Handle
2.
Favorite or ReTweet tweets from authors
promoting their books, reviews, or sales
3.
Follow those who follow me
4.
Look at the Moments (new to Twitter) and retweet
or reply to a tweet of Moments that interest me
5.
Interact with Trending tweets (left hand side of
Twitter page) Many times there are author friendly trends such as
#WritersWednesday #MondayMotivation etc
6.
Follow celebrities, but don’t expect them to
follow you back or interact, however, this may happen! I’ve had some great
interactions with celebrities and brand I love to use.
CoPromote is
cross promotion source for engaging with others and having them re-tweet your
boosted tweets. I use the free service and do not feel I need the paid service.
I boost a tweet and others who have a shared interest re-tweet my tweet, thus
increasing tweet impressions (number of followers who will see your tweet). I
can gain more re-tweets by tweet others post. I get to select and determine
what I will share.
RSS Feed is a way
to have a direct feed from blogs. Real Simple Syndication (RSS) allows for me
to have the feed automatically sent to an aggregation site. In this case
Twitter via Twibble (see below). I use RSS feed for writing sites and cooking
sites. The sites I like are Romance University, Helping Writers Become Authors,
Positive Writer, Pioneer Woman, and Extra Virgin Cooking Blog. This way content
is sent directly to my twitter feed and I do not have to search out the content
I want to read. Also, I love cooking so the information is feed to my Twitter
feed as well.
Twibble allows
for me to copy an RSS feed and arrange the blog post to be automatically sent
to my Twitter feed. I pick the day and times I want the post sent and the rest
is history. I use the free Twibble and
haven’t found the need for the paid service.
I have been doing this for the last 2 weeks and here are the
results:
1.
Tweets have increased by 81.8%
2.
Tweet Impressions increased by 215.1%
3.
Profile visits increased by 243.8%
4.
Mentions increased by 550%
5.
Followers increased by 344
I will continue to watch the stats of my efforts and will
keep you posted. To follow me on twitter, my handle is @AuthorMaddyHill
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