How to find your Followers

Understand visibility

• @mentions v @replies
• RT: v native retweets
• Hashtags
• #ff
• Make introductions

Become a Time Lord

• Go mobile & seize the moment
• Find & Use #hashtag chats
• Tweet WHEN your audience is
• Use tools to buffer content
• Be live often & for events

Influence the Influencers

• Use influence plugins
• Find offline influencers online
• Use your Klout
• Find the experts' expert - PeerIndex
• Watch your Kred

Find & Follow

• Search Bios as well as tweets
• Follow to be followed
• Follow tweeters of live events
• Mine lists
• Followerwonk, Twibes, Wefollow

Advertise your Twitter presence

• Link your LinkedIn account
• Use your email signature
• Put it on your business cards
• Put it in your byline
• Use in online profiles e.g. mediauk.com

Engage!

• Converse
• Credit
• Collate
• Curate & Crowdsource
• Create e.g Yorkshire infographics

Alerts get Attention

• Follow
• Retweet
• Mention
• List
• Favourite

Review what you do

• Use bit.ly to track links
• Use a tool to check timing:
• E.g. Socialbro or SumAll
• Or let buffer do it for you
• Use "interactions" tab

Plugins & Apps

• Customise your open source browser:
• Use Chrome or Firefox
• Choose tools and apps across platforms
• Plug the same apps into your browser
• Automate the task, not the conversation

To DM or not DM?

Improve your game

• Follow the Twitter blog
• Sign up for Twitter news
• Thejournaliststoolbox.org/archive/twitter-resources
• Verificationjunkie.com
• Share what you know.

@lizcable