How to: Build a Twitter Following with Twitter Lists

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Twitter can become a little overwhelming for those who have just got started. It is like having 100 radio stations switched on at the same time and catching bits of pieces of conversations here and there.

One of the questions I get asked frequently is how do I manage or keep up with my Twitter stream? Some of these questions even come with questions such as if I am using a bot or have satffs managing my twitter account like Guy Kawasaki.

All of them are false of course, and the answer really is much simpler than you thought. As you may already guess, it’s just by using Twitter lists.

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If I could start Twitter all over again, what would I have done differently?

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I’ve been using twitter for over 3 and a half years now..

Looking back and reminiscing at the “old times”, I’ve seen how much Twitter had changed and how it had helped to propel me in business.

I can’t help but to look back and think what I would have done differently if Twitter somehow loses all of their data and I had to start it all over again.
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5 Strategies for Using Twitter Effectively

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This post originally appeared on the iStrategy blog where I contribute regularly articles about leveraging social media and technology for small businesses. Subscribe to their blog for more great articles. 

Can you imagine that just a few years ago Twitter didn’t exist (I won’t “exist” too)? Today the phrase “follow us” or ”follow me” is commonly used everywhere – on the news, radio, on ads and more. And let’s not forget #hashtags that appear on TV shows like X-Factor so that viewers can easily follow the conversations.
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In the short term, QUANTITY BEATS QUALITY in social media

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Yes, you read the title right. QUANTITY beats quality in social media hands down… at least for the short term.

Before you crack your knuckles and get ready to go onto a brawl with me, telling me how wrong I am. Read on.

We have all heard the phrase “Social Media is About Quality, Not Quantity.”

I know that it’s better to have 1000 crazy fans who adore YOU rather than 10,000 followers who don’t give a crap about YOU.

But let’s see, what do the two groups of people have in common with each other?
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4 excellent examples of successful Twitter contest

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This post was a guest post that I wrote and published on JeffBullas.com. Do subscribe to Jeff’s blog for more amazing content and tips on social media. You won’t regret it. 

Using Twitter professionally for the past 3 years, I’ve seen my share of contests that were organized by both the bigger brands and smaller businesses.In fact, if you were to search with the phrase ‘RT to win’ on Twitter, you’ll find many interesting contests being held on a daily basis.

A Twitter contest is not only a great way to build buzz and increase brand engagement, but it also generates new followers and grows your brand presence.

There are even some who would suggest that Twitter contests are more effective at building engagement than any other online (paid) investments.

Clearly then, as Twitter grows its influence in social media, so too would the importance of Twitter contests.

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It’s impossible to follow 130,000 people on Twitter, but I do it anyway.

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When I started using Twitter back in 2009, there were many strategies to manage the size of your account.

Some teaches you to not follow your followers. It seems that having many followers while following as little people as possible reflects authority.

“Twitter Gurus” were even preaching that we should follow as many people as possible and then unfollowing them once they become your followers.

But some say that to follow your followers is a form of courtesy.
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This is not the way you should automate twitter

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That is what Acura (or whoever is behind the account) about to learn as they “spammed” the wrong person, David Meerman Scott author of several marketing books like Real Time Marketing and PR. (great book and this is not an affilate link)

Oh.. I think its going into his book in the future too.

What happened? Well lets say they have not read any of my memo on personalizing tweets and they took the easy way out by using a tool called Local Response, a tool that helps clients to send tweets or @mentions to people in real time based on checkins, hashtags/keywords etc.
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How to run a successful Twitter contest

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A Twitter contest is a great way to not only generate buzz for your brand but also to grow your followers whom are interested in what you have to offer.

A Twitter contest is pretty straight forward. Ideally, you get people to share tweets with their followers in return for a chance to win a prize.
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The Five Smartest Kinds Of Twitter Users Which Ones Are You Most Like?

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The following is a guest post by Dave Larson aka @tweetsmarter on twitter. Dave is someone who i have my utmost respect for on twitter.  For the past 4 years, Dave has answered and helped thousands of Twitter users worldwide. Enjoy!

There are a lot of smart ways to use Twitter. And there are a lot of fun kinds of people to follow—comedians, family, friends, and so forth. But which kind of users make best advantage of all the social networking site like Twitter has to offer? While it’s hard to break the wide diversity of users into narrow categories, there are a few common types that are worth knowing and learning from. However, most of the people you will meet will be a combination of several of these types:
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6 Unofficial Ways to Increase Your Klout Score

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Oh no… not another klout blog post!! YES! another one. Several months ago, I had my internship in Singapore and I didn’t really have much time to tweet, so I expected my klout score to decrease. It fell from 80+ to 72 within a month. (Little tweets and engagement in a month)

So I thought it would be fun to try out how I could get the score back up again, therefore I tried several methods from simply tweeting and sharing tweets to trying the other types of tweets. The results? Here are

6 UNOFFICIAL WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR KLOUT SCORE.

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