Ok, so you're on Twitter. Now who to follow and how do you get people to follow you? You need to ask yourself what your purpose of being on Twitter is. Mine was to make friends in a new city where I didn't know a lot of people. I've done splendidly with this. Others choose it to market their business. It's kinda hard (and probably unprofessional) to do both with the same account. So decide and go from there. If you want the business side, well search marketing and I'm sure you'll find tons of information. I on the other hand don't want to talk about things I don't know, so I'll share making friends with people. Just like making friends in real life, you should be yourself and talk about things you enjoy and want to share. Being positive always helps :) Furthermore, try to share things people may want to converse about. I love a great piece of toast, but it's hard to have a conversation about toast (unless #foodiechats is your theme in which case people will happily discuss this). Oh yeah, you'll probably want a public profile rather than locked unless you think it will hurt your career. If you do pick public make sure you remember that your tweets are out there for all the world to see. Scary yes, but how will you make friends if no one can see what you are saying? Now, how to find people. If you have real life friends you'd like to keep in touch with, add them first. You can always go through their follows to see others you may like. Also, if you really love something search tweets with that topic. You'll find other people who are at least talking about it. I like to read through timelines and see if I like what they tweet about and how much they tweet. They may be awesome, but 500 tweets a day may prove too much to show up in my feed (in which case check out the lists feature). Now, as you follow people you may find that some follow you back. Some will be real people and some will be spam bots that picked up on some random thing you said and think you'll click on their scammy links because they followed you/@mentioned you.
As you grow comfortable with tweeting and meeting people and conversing you'll find all sorts of doors open up. You'll make new friends, find new places to go and shop or eat, and be able to pursue all sorts of interests with people who share them. Pretty amazing right? Also, if you have some legit places you follow, you'll find they do contests. Usually something as simple as following them and retweeting (RT) a tweet is all you have to do to enter. Some are scammy, which is why it's important you pay attention to who is doing the contest (check to see if it's a verified account at least, if not a place you've been to). True story, I won a $500 gift card to an amazing bar just by retweeting a tweet for a contest they had running (the contest was to #EatTheMenu and I'm happily working my way through their menu).
Other amazing things I've received through twitter:
- AWESOME friends
- my current apt
- klout perks (more on this later)
- events where more often than not free music/food/liquor/socializing is involved
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