Twitter is now the third most popular social network, behind Facebook and MySpace (Compete, 2009). For Twitter, in 2008 (TechCrunch), there were:
- 1+ million users
- 200,000 active users per week
- 3 million/day twitter messages
So Twitter needs to be included in your Social Media toolbox! You’ve connected your blog, and other social media profiles, to your Twitter page! So, what’s next?
This post will focus on two aspects of using Twitter: 1) getting followers, and 2) building relationships
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1) Getting Followers – the key terms:
- Tweet/Tweep/Tweeting/…
Tweet: Individual message are called tweets. It can also be used as a verb, as in “I tweeted you last week about the meeting”
Tweep: A conjunction of Twitter and Peeps resulting in tweeps – commonly used to refer to the Twitter followers of someone
Tweeting: The act of sending and receiving Tweets
Twitterer: (noun) One who “Tweets”
Twitterverse: The cyberspace of Twitter – i.e. anywhere you can Twitter including mobile phones
- Following
For somebody to receive your messages via Twitter they have to have selected to follow you, or your company
However, there are a couple of ways to advise people directly to follow you. You can, for example, send them an email from your Twitter home page, invite them (see below), or @reply to them (see below)
- @username message
