Little do they know that this is the ones usually hidden or less
easily accessible, that can be the most useful.
Twitter is one of the most used social media platform and is great to
engage in conversations with people you wouldn't have probably met in
real life, at least not that easily, either for personal or
professional purposes. The features below will help you discover how
to use Twitter to its fullest.
Connect with more people
As many social networks, Twitter gives you the possibility to browse
your contacts database from other platforms in order to find people
you already know. This feature is often under-used but can turn out to
be very effective to find people to connect with, and therefore, get
new followers.
You access it via the #Discover section (top menu) and then "Find
Friends". There you can connect with contacts from your Gmail, Yahoo,
AOL or Outlook accounts. Browse also the "Who to follow" section to
find suggestions based on your current following.
Follow people's activity
Did you know that Twitter has an "activity feed" similar to Facebook's
newsfeed? Twitter's main page let you see what people you follow
tweet. How about who they follow, which tweets they liked and what
lists they created? All those info are in the "Activity Feed"
accessible from the #Discover. It will be very useful to find new
people to follow or start discussing with, find interesting lists and
engaging tweets.
Favorite
On Twitter, favoriting a tweet is the equivalent of a Facebook "Like."
But how often do you use this feature, compared to the posts you
regularly like on Facebook? When you "favorite" a tweet, its author
gets notified. It's a good way to catch his or her attention.
It can be very useful also as a way to bookmark tweets you like or
will need to go back to in the future, as you can easily access all
your favorite tweets from the "Me" section and then via "Favorites."
Follow trends
Hashtags are very useful to find conversations and people. It's also
important to know which one to use in your tweets. As the trending
hashtags are the most currently used, it can be useful to add some to
your tweets, as long as they are relevant.
Depending on which trends you would like to follow and where you are
located, you might want to adjust the region set for the trends. From
the main page, in the "Trends" box, click on "Change" to select the
geographic area wanted.
Search
Like Google or other search engines, Twitter lets you narrow your
search for more efficiency. When you read the results of a search,
click on "Advanced search" on the right. Then you can narrow by
keywords, hashtags, location, people, etc. You can also save any
search to go back to it faster in the future.
If you are using Twitter on your smartphone, have a look at the
improved feature to follow conversations better.
-socialmediatoday.com
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