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New Twitter users are allowed to follow only 2,000 people. The idea is to get 2,000 people to follow them. This is Twitter’s way of preventing spammers from making their unwanted presence felt on Twitter. When you first register on Twitter, you will find plenty of followers. You will have exhausted your limits within a week. You cannot get more followers because you have already exhausted your limits by following 2000 Twitter users. In such a case, what can you do?

Study your following and follower lists carefully, and you will discover that not all the people you are following are following you back. In such a case, you have two options—remove the person from your following list or respond to the person’s tweets with the hope that the person would notice you and start following you.

You will find that weeding your follower list manually is a tedious process. Twitter has some excellent tools that will help you do this job effectively.

This excellent Twitter app will allow you to identify the users you are following along with the ones who are following you. You can easily make out which of the Twitter users you are following are not following you. The home page of Twitter Karma enables you to unfollow all those who are not following you with one click of the mouse. Visit http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/

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This app, however, is too slow and need two full minutes to process your Twitter details and to give you the information you require. If you want something faster, you could check out applications such as TwitIn.com, www.mytweeple.com, or Socialtoo.com.

Here is what top Twitter users do to get a large list of followers.

First, follow your limited number of 2,000 people. Now, wait for about a week to see if they follow you back. Of these 2,000, at least 200 should follow you back. After that, it is time to weed your following list using the above-mentioned applications.

Now, you might want to retain some people who are not following you back simply because their tweets are of great value to you. For example, Frank Kern follows only a handful of Twitter users, but has a large list of 5,000 Twitter users following him. This is because Frank Kern is a top-grade Internet marketer who has something of great value to give to his followers. They don’t mind him not following them in return.

When you weed your following list of unresponsive Twitter users, you will have cleared a lot of Twitter space. Now is the time to follow some more people who share the same interests as you. Retain them if they follow you back or have something of value to offer. Weed them off your list if they are of no use to you. This simple method of following and weeding will help you get a list of 500 or more followers in just 2 weeks.

Continue the process of weeding and following till you have all the followers that you desire

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Twitter allows you to make find friends in any number of ways. First, you can inform your friends, family members, and colleagues that you are on Twitter and request them to join you there. You can also add your Twitter page link to your email signature, enabling the recipients of your emails to find and join you on Twitter.

Alternatively, you can search through the endless list of Twitter users to find people who share your interests and become friends with them. Twitter also presents tools that will help you find and follow other Twitter users.

Twellow and JustTweetIt are sites that can introduce you to other Twitter users who share your interests and goals. Look up their profiles and study the ways in which they use Twitter. Before you decide to follow them, study their blogs and read their bios. Follow them only if they share similar interests with you. You will be wasting your time if you follow people who are interested in a niche that has nothing to do with you.

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Twitter Search is another great way to find like-minded people. Twitter Search is Twitter’s special search engine that is not only easy to use, but also gives great results. Use it to find profiles that might interest you.

Once you decide to follow another Twitter user, you will gain access to the network of Twitter users they are following. You will find that it is humanly impossible to read every tweet that is posted on Twitter. But you can glance through them and browse various profiles to find something that interests you. Check the tweets every now and then for a message that might be related to your niche or interests.

Don’t be in a hurry to build your network. Following other Twitter users means opening yourself up to the rest of the Twitter community. When you follow other Twitter users, you make it easy for them to find you. Therefore, follow only those who might be of some use to you.

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When you first step into Twitter space, you will wonder what everybody is tweeting about. New users can be totally confused with Twitter terms; but you will soon get the hang of it. Most Twitter terms begin with the letters ‘tw.’ For example, “tweet” means a twitter message. tweetup means a Twitter meetup. Before you tweet to other Twitter users, you ought to know the following basic Twitter terms in order to make yourself understood.

A direct message is a personal message sent to a particular Twitter user. It does not appear on the public timeline. @’ followed by username of a particular Twitter user means that it is a response to that Twitter user’s tweet. It appears on the public timeline—one the home page of that Twitter user. Leave twittername: This indicates a desire on the part of a Twitter user to stop following someone. On: This command turns on phone, IM, and mobile phone notifications. Off: This command is to turn off notification. RT or Retweet: You are retweeting if you are reposting something interesting posted by a Twitter user. PRT: This means “please retweet” or “partial retweet.” OH: Overheard FTL: For the loss BTW: By the way FTW: For the win YMMV: Your mileage may vary IMHO: In my honest opinion LMK: Let me know b/c: Because JV: Joint Venture Hashtags: Many Tweeters use hashtags (a hash preceding a tag) in order to make it easier for readers to follow that particular tag or tract it. Use the tag on Twitter Search, and you will find other Twitter users tweeting on the same subject—posting events, tips, conference, and so on about the same subject. If you want to track many hashtags, visit Twemes.

WeFollow, Twellow, and Justtweetit are some Twitter directories that can also give you plenty of information on hashtags and tag tracking. While tracking other hashtags, it pays to add your own to the directory, especially if you specialize in a particular niche.

To learn more exciting Twitter terms, visit: http://twitter.com/help/lingo

You might be wondering why Twitter has a different language. The reason for this is simple. Like all Web 2.0 sites, the prosperity of Twitter depends entirely on the quality of the material posted by its users. Twitter is of value today because of the valuable tweets of its users. Twitter will flourish only if the Twitter community flourishes. And, for any community to flourish there must be a basic set of rules and regulations pertaining to language. The guidelines are not to curb the freedom of the users, but only to enable the smooth functioning of Twitter. As you continue using Twitter, you will observe that using Twitter language will actually enrich your Twitter experience.

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Schenectady, NY (PRWEB) July 29, 2009

Following its tradition of digital democracy, BestTravelDeals.net, the only social voting travel deals platform on the web, is expanding its services to include travel deal tweets from Twitter.

“It’s amazing with all the buzz surrounding Twitter that everyone isn’t on Twitter but a recent Nielsen study shows that 60% of Twitter users abandon the service after one month. Some travel providers promote their best travel deals exclusively on Twitter such as the JetBlue Cheep deals,” said Song. “We want to make sure travelers who come to our site find the best possible deals out there. If you aren’t on Twitter or following the right Tweeple you may never know about these promotions,” Song added.

The Twitter expansion is part of a strategy for BestTravelDeals.net to build a strong community and to become one of the best resources for consumers searching for travel deals. The site also allows anyone including travel providers to share deals at no cost and the travel community to vote on those deals.

About BestTravelDeals.net

BestTravelDeals.net was launched in early June 2009. The travel based social media website gives providers a free platform to showcase their offerings including smaller travel providers who are often not found on larger OTA’s. For more, please visit http://www.besttraveldeals.net.

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