First I am going to share some free things you can do to enhance your experience.

I have found and easier way to connect with people on twitter and it is called “Tweet Deck”.  This is a free download that you can find if you Google it.  Tweet Deck has 4 columns.  You can see Direct Messages in one, @replies in another, everyone’s posts and even add on based on a search word.  It allows you to post tweets, RT’s, DM’s.  You can see people’s profiles too plus much more!

Twollo.com allows you to follow people based on keywords.   If you are interested in baseball pitching you can search that and quickly follow others who hold that interest.  This makes twitter more fun and gives you the ability to connect with your perfect clients and customers.

Go to Twitterlocal.net and download it.  This is an amazing way to find people in your geographic area.  If you have a business that requires your clientele to be nearby this is an absolute necessity!  Most business owners do not use social media to market their local businesses.   You can put yourself way ahead of the game if you are active on twitter.  One important point – be careful to share information that addresses solving your prospective customers problems, don’t just blurt out constant advertising because it turns people off.  Give valuable information that softly leads them to doing business with you. 

Once you pass 2,000 followers Twitter will not allow you to follow more than 10% of the number of people following you.  This means if you have 3,000 followers Twitter will not let you follow more than 3,300 people.  About 1/3 of the people you follow will follow you.  This means you must unfollow people who don’t follow you back to keep building your account.  Huitter.com is easy to use any-time you want to effortlessly unfollow those who don’t follow you.  Just enter your username and password, pick the manual setting and start.  It works amazingly in accounts below 10,000 followers and will save you tons of time!

Here is software that is not free but is well worth the cost.  It is a one-time cost that will pay for itself fast, about $50.  “TweetAdder” is so cool.  I wish I had started using it months ago!  It is your one stop shopping for automating aspects of your account while still allowing you to interact personally.  In the flash of a few minutes you can find targeted people to follow by keyword, location, profile data etc., effortlessly save the list and you can follow them instantly.  Simultaneously, you can unfollow those who don’t follow you (even adding a lag time of your choice).  You can pre-set tweets to be posted at intervals you set.  This is great to give you a bigger presence on Twitter. Click this link to sign up for Tweet Adder