How do you use twitter?

[Made in the 80s]

I know how to update my twitter status on the computer & mobile but how do you comment on peoples tweets, direct messages stuff like that. Interact with other people on twitter.

[Lekky]

If you want to use Twitter in conjunction with your lenses or blog, you should use a user name that reflects them or do as I have done and use your real name!

Once you've registered, you'll need to upload a picture to use as your avatar. You can use a picture of yourself or an illustration that reflects your blog as your avatar. Make sure it's a clear picture and one that will show up well in a column with other pictures surrounding it.

On Twitter, you can search for other users and then request to follow their updates. Once someone approves you to follow them, more often than not they will choose to follow you as well. You can build your followers list by searching for keywords on the Twitter site that relates to your blog. If you find that the Twitter search function isn't working then use http://www.summize.com which shows you who is talking about a particular topic once you search on a keyword(s). This way you can build a list of followers that are interested in your topic. Once you start posting updates on Twitter about your blog, you'll automatically get more traffic.

When you join, you'll probably get follow requests as well from other users who are using the search tools. You can choose to follow these people if they seem interesting and that they could be a potential traffic source for your blog. Make sure that your follow list doesn't get too crowded.

Twitter works best when you can actually communicate with the people that you are following, and vice versa. If you crowd your list with thousands of people you may initially get more traffic but you'll lose out on many of the other benefits of using the site.

Before you get started with posting Twitter updates, you need to decide your primary purpose for using Twitter. If you're focused before you get started, you'll be able to produce better quality lenses or blog posts and get the right kind of traffic.

There are many different ways you can use Twitter, and everyone uses it a little bit different. Consider these different ways of using the platform when you decide how you're going to use it:

-To build your expertise and your authority in a niche
-To drive more traffic to your lenses, blogs, and websites
-To brand yourself
-To be more social with your readers
-To make your lenses and blogs more of a community experience

You can do all of this and more with your Twitter account, or you can choose just one aspect and run with that. Keep in mind though that if you decide that you're going to use it just to post links to your blog, you're going to be a bit disappointed.

Since Twitter is a social networking tool, people will quickly unsubscribe from your updates. On Twitter, people want to know more about you and see a more personal side of you. This is why it's such a powerful way to drive traffic to your blog.

[herovinero]

Just retweet the users, they see your retweets when logging in their account and clicking @username link