Top 10 Killer Tips To Become Popular On Twitter

Top 10 Twitter Tips And Tricks

Following are the listing of top 10 MOST favourite tips and tricks. This tips will make your Twitter experience more enjoyable and help you attract thousands of new followers (this maybe little boring for the pro's).

Customize

The first most important thing after you've started your twitter account is to customize your account :

1. Change your profile picture. Use a picture of yourself to make it seem more personalized if it your personal account. Or choose an attractive, relevant picture which suites the type of your account.
2. Utilize as much of the 160-character limit twitter bio space allows. Use keyword and hash-tags your followers or your potential followers maybe searching for.
3. Create your own background image.The background image must be less than 800k and we recommend a size of 1600x1200 for a larger image or smaller if you plan on tiling the image or just having it on the left-hand side. Many people use their background image for advertizing. You can do that as well when you get sizable amount of followers.

Use Twitter Search 

Take full advantage of the Twitter search tool. Below are just a few tips that can help improve your search capabilities on Twitter.

1. Search for your website or blog URL and see if others are mentioning your page.
2. Find people who you may enjoy following by searching for keywords that interested you.If you do not want tweets with links add ? -filter:links at the end of your search query.
3. Need more options, use the Advanced Twitter search.
4. There are many people out there who help you in promoting your account. Search for them. They will help you a lot in increasing your followers. You can ask for shout outs,mentions, Rt's etc.

Followers

1. Engage with your followers.
2. Do not follow too many people. Twitter has a limit that you cannot follow more than 50 people in one hour.Besides that it doesn't seem cool that you have too many FOLLOWING than FOLLOWERS.
3. Try attracting people with your tweets and retweets (RT's). Using hash tags help alot.
4. Participate with people having lot of followers. You become more prominent that way.
5. Try to have a small follow:following ratio.

Create And Use Lists

Twitter lists are an excellent method of filtering filter through the people you follow. To create a list, click the lists link and then Create a list. After creating a list visit the persons profile page you wish to add and click the list icon, as shown in the picture to the right.

Know The Lingo

Know the Twitter lingo, these are just a few examples: @reply, Direct Message (DM), Follower, Hashtag, Retweet (RT), Trending Topics, and Tweet. See the Twitter description for a full listing of Twitter terms and Lingo and related terms.

Third Party Tools

Take advantage of the hundreds of different third-party online tools and services that enhance your Twitter experience. Below are a few of our favorites.

1. TwitPic- Take advantage of TwitPic to post pictures on your tweets. If you want to post pictures while away from the computer, use the Twitterific app.
2. Qwitter - Great service that sends an e-mail any time someone unsubscribes from your Twitter profile and mentions a possible Twitter post you made that may have caused them to leave.
3. Manageflitter - Fantastic site for managing your followers and getting an easy to read overview of people not following you back, quiet users, and inactive users.
4. WeFollow - Great website that allows you to add yourself to a listing of Twitter users by tags you find interesting.
5. SocialOomph Another great service with a collection of free Twitter tools including the ability to schedule when a tweets gets posted.
6. Tweetbeat - An excellent site that takes the trending topics on Twitter and gives you a clearer explanation of present and past trending topics.
7. TwitterMeme - Another great location to find the hottest links on Twitter.
8. Twitter Grader - Great service that grades any Twitter account and gives you additional details and ranking information.
9. Twitter Fan Wiki Apps - Finally, this wiki has a listing of several hundred different Twitter applications and tools for users wanting more.

Creative And Useful Tweets

1. Try making your tweets useful, informative, funny or accordingly to your account e.g if your account is of sports than tweet regularly informative tweets about it.
2. Add hashtags to your tweets e.g for about football use #football or about     interesting facts use #infofacts.
3. Tweet frequently and regularly. No one is going to follow someone they do not know who has not tweeted in months. Try at the very least to tweet a few times a day or minimum once if you can manage.
4. Try making your valuable tweets during the times people will most likely see them.
5. Keep some space available in your tweet in case someone retweets your post.

Go Mobile

Apple iPhones, Blackberry phones, Android phones, Windows phone 7 phones, and most of the other smart phones have Twitter applications. Take full advantage of these applications, so you can stay in touch at all times. For users who do not have smart phones Twitter also has extensive support for SMS, which can send tweets over a text message.

Find People Near You

Take advantage of the Places options in the advanced Twitter search interface to filter tweets to a certain area.

Advertise

This is the best part. There are lots of services available online that help you generate revenue from your twitter account. But before you start advertising be sure to have enough amount of followers (make the minimum target of 5k).
Here are few SERVICES that might help you http://twittricks.blogspot.com/2012/10/make-money-with-twitter.html .

I hope you find the article useful. Your feedback will be appreciated.