- What's up Socials, welcome back to my channel.
As many of you know, I'm a huge fan of Twitter.
It's still one of my favorite social networks period.
Especially when it comes to continuing the conversation
with you after you watch the video, during, before,
all of the things.
It's just such a great place to hang out.
I actually was getting a little frustrated
because in the last couple of years
I feel like people are saying
that Twitter is not doing as well, it's dying,
it's not good anymore and so in frustration
I made a video about this time last year
called Why I'm Not Following You on Twitter.
I've been on Twitter a very long time.
Back in the days when people actually said
what they were up to rather than just sharing
a bunch of links to their blog post.
I will link to that so you can check it out
and you can kind of get a feel
for why someone may not follow you on Twitter,
especially if they are as picky as I am
about who they surround themselves with.
But today I thought we could dig into that
on a more positive side and show you a couple of things
that maybe you aren't doing that would make you
a little bit more interesting of a follow on Twitter.
But it's not about followers
it's more about meeting cool people and still showing
that Twitter can be a place to build those relationships
that might move the needle for you.
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Let's get into the 10, not 10, 20, I doubled it.
It was 10 and it's actually now 20.
I was just having so much fun with this video
I came up with double the ideas.
Let's get into the 20 tweets you should send every day.
The first one is a really great way
to kick of everyone's day
and that's just to send out a greeting.
Say hello, say good morning.
Say what you're having for coffee, whatever it is,
just greet your Twitter following
and anyone else who stumbles upon you
as if you are running into each other
first thing in the morning
after you've had your cup of coffee
and you're in the mood to talk that is.
Probably my favorite part about saying good morning
every day on Twitter is that I usually get the response,
"Good evening, I'm on the other side of the world."
I love you guys in those other time zones.
The second one is probably obvious
and we usually check this pretty quickly
if we're just logging into Twitter the first time of the day
or logging in at all
and that is looking at your Mentions tab
and sending @replies
to the people who've been tweeting to you.
Also I'm using @Reply to explain
sort of the technical term
for what used to be an @Reply on Twitter.
I don't think you actually see @replies very often anymore
because they changed the way it's formatted
but you get the point.
Reply to the people who are talking to you
'cause you're fortunate
to have anyone talking to you at all on Twitter
so don't let them just sit there and wait forever
to not get a response.
Retreat, (sighs)
retreat, good god it's not Halloween yet.
Retweet with a comment.
You can always retweet, and you absolutely should,
but I actually think tweets that are retweeted
with an addition comment on top of them
makes me actually wanna read someone else's tweet even more.
Especially if you're retweeting somebody
I've never even heard of or follow.
Adding your thoughts onto it kind of gives that social proof
to whoever it is that is the original tweeter,
enhancing the experience for all.
Link to something that is useful
and also share you thoughts about it.
Don't just take the headline of an article
and add the link to how to get to it
and not say anything about it.
If you really want someone to go check it out
because you think it's useful to them tell them why.
Reply to a conversation that's already happening.
It could just be one person
that put a tweet out into the world
and hoping somebody would reply to it.
That's a great opportunity to do that.
But maybe there's some people talking about a relevant topic
or something that's trending
and you can jump into that conversation.
That's what Twitter is all about, joining in,
it's how we meet new people
and how we get more interesting people
to follow us and vice versa.
Run a poll.
I absolutely love this feature on Twitter
'cause it just kinda catches your eye
no matter who does it on your Twitter feed.
Ask the question but have a bunch of multiple choice answers
so that people feel it's a lot easier to answer you.
A poll is a great way
to kind of break down the barrier of entry
if someone's like I kinda wanna respond but I don't know
if I have a fully thought out answer to this
so I'm just not going to.
Obviously when you click A, B, or C
that's as much as you have to do
and so the polls tend to be much more highly engaged
so ask people anything, whether it's their favorite color
or their favorite ice cream flavor
or what you should do in your next video
or your next blog post or your next career move,
whatever it is just ask the public, see what they think.
You may not go on to go with it
depending on what the actual question is.
Career path, that's a big one.
(exhales)
Yeah, I don't know if I'd run a poll on that.
Ask a question in an @Reply to someone
you kinda wish you knew better.
Maybe it's not as high level as a celebrity
but maybe you find somebody interesting
whether it's a blogger or a thought leader of some kind
or a speaker or somebody you read their book.
Do you have a question for them?
Pose that question on Twitter and see if you get a reply.
There's a lot of people that watch my videos
but there are very few who watch my videos
and also ask me questions after they watch on Twitter
or even in a comment but ask me questions so much
and get me thinking about how to reply to them so often
that I remember who they are.
So a really great way to get on people's radar
is to make yourself memorable, ask a question,
and show that you're listening.
Upload a photo or photos to share a moment.
I know this sounds really obvious
because people upload photos to social networks
all the time.
I think Facebook is where we got obsessed with it,
Instagram is where we got much more particular
and pristine with it,
but Twitter is still sort of this place
where multimedia takes up a huge amount of the newsfeed
so you can get a lot of attention
by sharing a photo or four.
It definitely makes for a much more interesting tweet
than just saying something in general in 140 characters.
Pop, make it pop.
The tweets that pop are the ones that get the hearts.
Participate in a trending topic or a trending hashtag
but actually provide a valuable thought around it.
It's always a great idea to get in front of another audience
that may not have known you existed,
especially if it's a trending hashtag
like #mondaymotivation or #womancrushmonday,
no Amy, oh my god, oh my god, you're the worst.
Or #womancrushwednesday.
Make sure you're not just doing it to do it
because if you actually come up with something thoughtful
or something that is actually kind of funny or entertaining
you're much more likely
to have that hashtag activity pan out
instead of it just looking like
you're trying to troll the hashtag
and maybe get some silly attention.
Ask for support.
I like to let my Twitter followers know
or any of my friends that happen to be watching over there
how they could support me today.
What am I up to,
whether it's I'm about to go pitch a new client.
Oh my god, send me good vibes you guys, send me good vibes.
Or if it's I have a video coming later today but it's late
so we're gonna have a later viewing time than usual
so please still watch it I'd really appreciate your support.
That type of conversation is totally normal in real life
and you can have that happen on Twitter
because you're showing that you need that support system
and that's why they're following you,
that's why we're all following each other on some level.
So ask for it.
I love this one, introduce a couple of people to each other.
When you introduce two people to each other on Twitter
it is like the easiest thing in the world.
Step one, check to see if they follow each other on Twitter.
Step two, if they don't start drafting a tweet immediately.
Step three, if you just write their @ handles
at the beginning of the tweet
you don't necessarily have to publish it to your entire feed
because it's considered simply an @Reply
and by saying,
"Hey, I love what you're doing over here, person A,
"and I love what you're doing over here, person B,
"and I think you guys should know each other,"
in less than 140 characters, it's the easiest way
and fastest, shortest way to becoming a connector.
And then they can decide
where do they wanna take the conversation from there?
They can look at each other's profiles and go on
and then later when they're like best friends
or they get married
or they do business together or something
they're gonna be like, "Our friend on Twitter, that one.
"What would we have done?
"Where would we be today without her?"
Share a link to something you made.
You guys probably see me do this on Twitter all the time
because it's either a link to a video
or a link to a video or a link to a video
or maybe a podcast or blog post.
But usually it's a link to a video
because I'm gonna let you know if you follow me on Twitter
it's probably because you're trying to stay tuned
to what I'm up to on some level,
you should be doing the same thing.
Link to something you made.
Here's a crazy one, share you status.
Remember when social media like first came out
and your one job was to say what you were up to?
I love when people do that now
'cause it's like a total anomaly.
I love letting people know like when I'm on a plane
getting ready to take off to a new place
or when I'm trying some new product
and just saying, "Oh my gosh, I'm unboxing this thing
"and it's awesome."
Just say what you're up to.
Walking the dog, who cares?
The cool thing about social media
was being able to look at what everyone's doing
at the same time as everyone else
'cause we all have the same amount of time.
So what's everybody else doing?
Let people know.
Send a reply to somebody in the form of a Twitter video.
I love this feature every time I see it
and oddly enough I think I always forget that it exists.
'Cause I hate typing.
I don't know why I don't just do this more often.
But let's say somebody sends you a tweet
and they say, "That blog post you wrote was ah-mazing,
"changed my life."
Instead of just replying, "Thank you,"
you could actually pop open your little Twitter app
and record a video and be like, "Yo, girl,
"thank you for that feedback, that is so awesome.
"I'm glad you appreciate it."
Now that person went from like a blog post reader
to like a huge fan
and you just made them a video, just them!
Holy crap, like that is such a fun way to become
like a bomb person to follow on Twitter.
Like that's just so fun.
I gotta do that more.
I just gotta do that more.
I should do that right now.
I'm gonna do it right now!
"Final push to end 2017 on high note
"is for me to reach my income goal."
Gary Winchester just replied to my podcast
and I said, "Tweet me with the thing that you're going to do
"before the end of the year."
This is the perfect thing to do a video reply to.
Hold on, hold, okay, oh my god.
I'm nervous.
I never do this, okay.
Gary, that is a great goal, thank you for replying to me
it was the first one I saw from my podcast.
So I just had to send you a video message
and there is no other reason for this whatsoever.
Foreshadowing, you'll see.
Gary, that is a great--
Oh my god, I think my makeup looks really good today.
Oh, this is so fun I never do this,
and I didn't have to type anything.
Look.
Gary, congratulations.
Look, there's two of me.
Share a GIF or a GIF, if you would prefer to say it that way
but I say GIF, no judgements.
Any time you have a feeling and you can find the perfect Gif
to describe it that always makes for a great tweet.
Just always.
Ask a question.
Go to your Twitter profile and just simply ask a question
in a regular tweet.
I promise you that little question mark does wonders.
People do wanna help others on social media
and so when you ask a question
this is a really great way to get engagement
but also get some value.
The other day I was trying to figure out
how to get this thing on my phone to never happen again
and so I just asked the question on Twitter
and someone told me how to fix it and it was gone
and it was like life changing.
'Cause you can't always Google something.
You can, but sometimes you don't have time.
And when you have this amazing community there
that just might know the answer to your question, just ask.
I talked about this in a video eons ago
called The Tweet That Will Always Get a Reply, check it out.
Share an inspiring quote because everyone does
and also usually you can find one
that actually kinda strikes a cord with you for that day
or for whatever you're going through
and it's kind of nice to let people ponder something
based on someone else's amazing words because you shared it.
Bonus points for a photo because those always get retweeted.
Celebrate someone else, whether you just wanna do
an exciting tweet for someone's birthday
or somebody just accomplished something major
and you want them to know you appreciate them
and are excited for them.
Just make a tweet and announce it to your community
so that they can feel a little bit more love from you
and also your community finds out about someone new
that is pretty cool.
Here's a fun one.
Find a question that's being asked of someone else
and swoop in there and answer it.
I like to go to the search for Twitter
and just like pop the question mark in there
to see what questions show
and maybe someone asked somebody else that I follow
a question because usually the algorithm
will put those things in front of you first.
I like to go and answer someone's question if I can
who thought they were gonna get it from somebody else
because they directed it towards somebody else
and maybe that somebody else is a little bit busy
but I could be useful to them to.
Bonus points again if the person
that was originally supposed to answer the question replies
"Oh my god, she's so right."
Conversations, get in there.
And the last tweet that I think you should send
is checking out for the day.
I personally like to leave my phone by my computer
when I go to bed at night.
I try not to take my phone in my room at all.
That's very, very hard but for at least the last half hour
before I go to bed no devices whatsoever.
So why not let Twitter know,
hey Twitter, I'm out, I'm out, peace, until tomorrow.
Those are 20 tweets I think you should send every day.
Do you have another idea, leave that in the comments below.
I wanna see what kinda tweets you're sendin'.
That's all for today Socials.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
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