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36 Things You ShouldKnow Before Starting aTwitter Account
A Twitter Guide For Newcomers
ByNir Ben Yona
Copyright © 2009 Nir Ben Yona – All Rights Reserved
 
Recently, we find it hard to ignore the hefty buzz around Twitter. It seems the serviceis in its peak nowadays and every news channel or media network across the globealready covered this microblogging revolution in one way or another. Not to mentionthe massive popularity that Twitter is getting from mega Celebes like Oprah Winfrey,Ashton Kutcher and many others, who find the service convenient enough to sharetheir thoughts with the masses (AKA: followers). But famous people aside, usingTwitter for quite a long time, made us realize there are many rules and norms peopleshould acquire before getting into the service.Here's a list of 36 tips and advices for the average Twitter starters:1.First thing, figure out what exactly do you want to achieve by opening your very own Twitter account, either spreading your wisdom, increasing your online social media activity, getting more virtual friends, or simply receivingreal-time news on various subjects.2.Carefully choose the name you're going to use. Twitter is your front windowand it should look accordingly. Short names are easy to remember, so find theone that suits you best.3.It is recommended to attach a picture or an avatar to your profile page.Accounts without an image will always be considered as spam.4.Make sure your password is not as easy as "1234". Stealing your Twitter account is almost equivalent to hijacking your identity.5.Once creating your page, start looking for already-existing friends and familymembers, to share your thoughts with. You can make your life easier, bysearching their Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail addresses and automatically add them toyour followers group.6.Think twice before sending your first messages. Many twitter usersmeticulously examine the content you generate before joining your followerslist.7.If you happened to join the service just to encounter famous Celebes (AKA:@oprah, @aplusk, @britneyspears, etc.), congratulations, you're one of millions.8.And speaking about Twitter celebrities, occasionally (but not to often) they dowant to hear your voice, although it's hard to filter so many users at the sametime, so don't take it too personally, if you get no answer.
 
 Ashton Kutcher's Twitter page
9.Now that you've started your own Twitter account, added your close friends tofollow and even launched your very first tweets, maybe it's time to look for  people who share the same ideas and post the exact information youcoherently search for.10.But before getting there, keep in mind there's always a possibility to protectyour messages from getting to strangers, by turning your settings into"private" mode. As a result, no one besides those you were granting access tofollow, will be able to watch your public posts.11.To find people from your niche who share mutual interests, you can alwaysuse #hashtags, either searching for specific queries or using Twitter's trendinglists to learn what's hot and what's not around the service.12.Other useful alternative, finding people who share the same ideas, is savingyour queries in a fixed column that constantly updates itself, whenever aTwitter user out there, is using the same words. Both Twitter's website andthird-party clients have already integrated this feature into their UI, so it won't be difficult to handle.13.Another neat feature that Twitter has assimilated into the service is the"Favorite" trait, which allows users bookmarking their likable tweets andsaving them inside a separate tag. Those tweets are marked with a golden star,to make it even easier recognizing.14.On a different note, there are some cool Twitter engines you can certainly relyon, whenever trying to maximize your query results. Personally, we'd like torecommend services likeTwazzup, Tweetzior Twitter'sown search engine, which dramatically improved after acquiring Summize.15.If that's not enough, third-party services like Wefollow, Twellow,Tweetizen, WhoShouldiFollow,Twits Like Me, or even TwitterCounter that creates regional lists of popular users, might do the job of finding people you'd like tofollow.16.Mind you, this "following" issue has recently received a different twist fromits preliminary definition (when people picked up their followers withtweezers), as we're astonishingly witnessing these silly races, users take partof, running like crazy bastards after every member, trying to prove the entireworld who's list is bigger than others. This all dash thing might efficiently
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