Well, that’s quite easy. Since Twitter is free to use and available in every country in the world, you can just register and post tweets, engage in superficial internet relationships which require little or no investment. However, there’s more than that in Twitter. In this article, we’ll try to have some insight on how to use the famous 140-character micro blogging service correctly, as well as introduce you to basic vocabulary every Twitter should know.
Before you start Tweeting, here’s the basic vocabulary of Twitter:
To ‘follow’ someone means to subscribe to another users’ tweets, or follow to subscribe from them. You may want to follow only followorthy users as they give you more valuable content than the others. To Retweet or RT means to re-tweet tweets tweeted by other twitters, this can help you a lot, as it shows that you don’t care to put yourself in front of others. You can also send Direct Messages (DM) to other users; they can only be seen by the users you send them to.
You now know the basic vocabulary of Twitter and chances are you didn’t even need that. And now, you’ve registered and now you want to post tweets. Your first tweet should usually say nothing more than a simple hello. When you have posted your first tweet, it’s now time to gather followers. You may want to find Twitters in your area at first, your friends or business partners. To do so, you can use Twitter’s own search engine.
Now you have followed some people, some are following you back, so your follower rate is growing steadily. What now? Engage in conversations. It’s easy. You can do it through the web or even get a fancy Twitter desktop application from the list at Twitter.com, as it is easier to track your replies and tweets with them. Also, using Twitter applications is a must if you plan on having more than one Twitter account.
How to formulate a tweet? For one, be briefer than the 140 character limit, as it makes the reader to actually read the tweet you’ve made – countless new tweets appear each second and the longest ones can actually be skipped by the average viewer.
Offering value to your followers or any outside reader is a must, if you want other Twitters to love you (retweeting and replying to your tweets equals love in Twitter). Be it an interesting link, or a personal reply, it can reach to your audience, as long as it’s interesting.
When all is said and done, all you need to do is post tweets. And gather followers. As for the gathering of followers, you need to consider one reason – why would you want to gather them? Will you twit purely for meeting people with shared interests, to advertise your business or something else? It’s entirely up to you; you’ll get followers no matter what you post. People will retweet your tweets from time to time, as long as you don’t come off as trying to take value (getting followers no matter what) from the other twitters.
source : http://www.socialnetworkingjournal.com/how-to-use-twitter-correctly/
Before you start Tweeting, here’s the basic vocabulary of Twitter:
To ‘follow’ someone means to subscribe to another users’ tweets, or follow to subscribe from them. You may want to follow only followorthy users as they give you more valuable content than the others. To Retweet or RT means to re-tweet tweets tweeted by other twitters, this can help you a lot, as it shows that you don’t care to put yourself in front of others. You can also send Direct Messages (DM) to other users; they can only be seen by the users you send them to.
You now know the basic vocabulary of Twitter and chances are you didn’t even need that. And now, you’ve registered and now you want to post tweets. Your first tweet should usually say nothing more than a simple hello. When you have posted your first tweet, it’s now time to gather followers. You may want to find Twitters in your area at first, your friends or business partners. To do so, you can use Twitter’s own search engine.
Now you have followed some people, some are following you back, so your follower rate is growing steadily. What now? Engage in conversations. It’s easy. You can do it through the web or even get a fancy Twitter desktop application from the list at Twitter.com, as it is easier to track your replies and tweets with them. Also, using Twitter applications is a must if you plan on having more than one Twitter account.
How to formulate a tweet? For one, be briefer than the 140 character limit, as it makes the reader to actually read the tweet you’ve made – countless new tweets appear each second and the longest ones can actually be skipped by the average viewer.
Offering value to your followers or any outside reader is a must, if you want other Twitters to love you (retweeting and replying to your tweets equals love in Twitter). Be it an interesting link, or a personal reply, it can reach to your audience, as long as it’s interesting.
When all is said and done, all you need to do is post tweets. And gather followers. As for the gathering of followers, you need to consider one reason – why would you want to gather them? Will you twit purely for meeting people with shared interests, to advertise your business or something else? It’s entirely up to you; you’ll get followers no matter what you post. People will retweet your tweets from time to time, as long as you don’t come off as trying to take value (getting followers no matter what) from the other twitters.
source : http://www.socialnetworkingjournal.com/how-to-use-twitter-correctly/