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How To Twitter: Part 5 – Tools To Manage Twitter More Effectively

This is the fifth part in my series on How to Twitter. In Part 1 I spoke about how to set up and optimise your Twitter account, in Part 2 I discussed how to post on Twitter and in Part 3 I showed you how to build your reach and followers on Twitter. The last post I wrote – Part 4 – dealt with #Hashtags and Twitter Chat.

Tools and Ways to Manage Twitter

For those of you on Twitter already, you probably now realise what a minefield it is out there! If you follow a lot of people you could be receiving about 200 tweets every few minutes! It gets harder to hear the important messages among all of the others. So how do you cut through all the noise?

Other questions you may have are, for example, who do I follow on Twitter? how do I monitor what people are saying about me? how can I sort the people I follow into categories? How can I schedule tweets for when I am busy or away?

Well let’s jump right into it and show you How To Manage Twitter more effectively! Continue reading →

7 Tips To Help Improve Twitter Management

Do you need help trying to manage your Twitter account more effectively?

Read on for some tips that will help you to free up some time, get more Mentions and Retweets and improve your social media engagement.

 

how to set up lists in twitter

#1. Setting Up Lists in Twitter

Set up lists to control what you view and who to target so it is easier to manage – Click on “Lists” and “Create a List” and then make your list – you can choose to make it private or public.

Add whoever you want to that list when you start to follow them or click on “Following” and go to add each to a list as per below.

how to add people to a twitter list

#2. Using Tools to Manage Your Social Media

I personally use Hootsuite and also have it set it up on my Phone so I can easily check through tweets at any time – however there are many out there – Tweetdeck is another popular one. Using these tools you can schedule updates and also sort lists into columns along with your LinkedIn and Facebook feeds.

using hootsuite to manage your social media

#3. Improve Your Bio

Ensure your About Us section is fully optimised and can include keywords or # to show what you do and with a link to your website to show you are a REAL person! And make sure you have a picture in your Profile – don’t leave the default egg picture or people will think you are fake!

#4. Keep Your Tweets Short and Interesting

A tweet has a maximum number of 140 characters so it must be catchy. You can always link to read more or see an image or video. Try and keep at least 17 characters free so that if people Retweet it they can add in a little note to their followers.

#5. Start Following People or Companies

Follow people or companies you are interested in and want to interact with and engage with them – not in a spammy way though by constantly harassing them and don’t try and sell to them!

#6. Share and Mention

Share the love! Be helpful, retweet, mention people and connect people up where you think they may have a collaboration for example @… I see you are looking for a great hotel in … you may want to check out @…. Do a #ff – follow friday – or other telling your followers who you recommend to follow. If you do all this you will often find the favour returned!

#7. Thank People

Thank people when they follow or mention you and return the favour by putting out to your followers what they do or retweet them for example check out this great wine tour RT @winetours: ……….

This is after all social “networking” so it goes without saying to be polite!

 

More coming soon on what other tools you can use to manage your Twitter followers.

 

About the Author: Karen Black is the Co-founder and Director of Mamba Media – a Creative Agency that specialises in Websites, Design and Digital Marketing for the Travel and Tourism Industry.