As you may remember in my last post about What is Twitter and What Can My Business Do With It? I showed you how to get started with Twitter and how to grow your followers and how to properly use Twitter. I have been rethinking what I have posted and would like to share some of the thoughts that I have been rethinking. Today’s post will be reviewing how to curate who you follow, and how you can be successful in what you share on Twitter. I will also be sharing some of the tools to use for Twitter and various other social media platforms.
You have now been tweeting your thoughts, helping others by sharing information from the people you follow via the retweet options. Generally how I gain my followers are to follow people who interest me, or are posting about the topics that interest me. For me the topics I tend to follow are tech news, website design news, and other tech related information. I retweet all of the valuable information that I believe is shareable with my followers, and by doing this I have the opportunity to have my retweet, retweeted by my followers and in turn that would get me introduced to more people who may be interested in all of the things that I am posting about and then follow me.
The main purpose of this post, should you follow everyone who follows you? I am starting to curate the people who I follow, so I can have a great amount of posts to sift through for the latest topics that I am interested in, and then share it to my followers. If I were to just follow everyone who were to follow me, I would get a lot of followers who have nothing worthwhile for me and my topics that I follow.
Tools that I have used to monitor my social media streams,
1. Hootsuite – There are two levels of membership to Hootsuite, the Free user can have 5 streams enabled, and the available social media platforms that can connect to Hootsuite. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and FourSquare. With the premium account you can add as many streams that you would like, and you also have access to reports on your social media engagement and followers.
2. TweetDeck – You can monitor your Twitter feeds, and Facebook feeds.
3. Klout – this service allows you to use your Twitter account and allows you to find out what kind of Twitter user you are and your reach of followers.
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