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Head to Twitter.com

– Click on the sign up box

– Put your full name in the first box

– Put in your user name ( now remember if you are trying to brand your self for a marketing reason, you will want to use that same name as your website, blog, Facebook account, MySpace, LinkedIn and any other sites you have signed up with.) This will allow anyone looking for you online find all your valuable content.This all ties into social networking!

– Put in your email and password

– You will then want to go into settings and upload a picture of you smiling and or having a good time especially if you are in sales or marketing of any sort.

– Make sure you check ” Let others find me by email address”

– Choose whether you want geotagging on or off, which enables third party applications to pinpoint your location when you tweet. (good idea if you are setting up a Twitter account for your children on their phones)

– Choose whether you want your tweets protected or not – this only allows people that you approve to follow you to see your tweets.

– Go into “Settings” then “Mobile” which allows you to register your cell number and tweet from your phone by texting to number 40404 ( just remember that tweets are only allowed to be 140 characters to where standard texts are 160 – so be careful)

– Its also a great idea to insert a bio about you, people do want to know who you are and what you like, remember this is social networking.

– If you have a website or blog put that info in the box that says “web box”

– Its also a good idea to get away from the standardized background that everyone else has, be original, be exciting, be fun, while you can pay for a really glamorous background, I have had great luck and some really great free backgrounds at twitterbackgrounds.com

– If you also have websites or accounts on Facebook, The home Based Business Network, LinkedIn, TweetMeMe, EzineArticles, Squidoo or any other site, it’s a good idea to set these up in the “connections” area which will allow you to tweet the content from those popular sites.

– OK now that you are set up and want to start tweeting there are a few things that you might want to know. Tweets cannot be any longer than 140 characters and there are following and followers rules. The rule is once you arrive at the 2000 mark you always have to keep the difference between the two at 10 percent. If you don’t follow this rule you will be kept from following anymore until your followers have caught up to at least 10 percent. Also if you are using Twitter to market a service or product you really need to provide some valuable content like quotes,articles,videos or news updates, the rule of thumb is for every “tweet” of your business you need to “tweet” three valuable content tweets.

– You have the ability to go in and “Find people” and you can find them by groups,friends,their email or Twitter name. Once you put in a name like ” Jim Smith begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting” you will see a list of people or businesses with that name on the left, on the right you will have three boxes. The first box says “follow” which clicking on that gives you a green arrow meaning you are now following that person,the second box says “manage lists” meaning you can put people you are following in different lists, the third box gives you more options main one you will use is unfollow that person if you chose.

– Occasionally you will get a “DM” which means Direct Message from someone, its good karma to answer them back as long as it’s a legitimate message, again remember this is social networking

– If you get into thousands or tens of thousands of following and followers you may consider a few tools to help you manage the marketing aspect if that is what your doing. Tools like Social Oomph which allows you to set up tweets in advance, Friend or Follow which filters people that you are following but not following you and Hummingbird that is a automation program to name a few to help you generate more tweets and followers.

– So this is just a general overview of how to set up a Twitter account, I hope it helps you get through the initial set up.

– I only request that if you find this information helpful and you are up and tweeting that you follow me at robertdstrong and send me a tweet saying ” thank you Robert for the Twitter Twaining it was Twawesome”

– One last word of wisdom on Twitter – if you read some good content or watch a good video sent through Twitter it’s a good idea to get in the practice to “ReTweet” so it goes out to your followers as well.

– Talk to you later, Robert

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