Blueprint To Build The Perfect Twitter Profile Slideshare. Use these 14 slides to help you build your Twitter profile to help you get found and create a professional account. I take apart the following sections of your Twitter profile to show you what you need to do and what you should do: 1. Name & Handle 2. Picture 3. Bio 4. Location 5. Link 6. Background 7. Pictures 8. Lists 9. Favorites 10. Interactions 11. Mentions 12. Followers 13. Following 14. Tweets Good luck with your Twitter profile tune-up! @GerryMoran

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Name & Twitter Handle
Name & Handle. Keep your handle as close as possible to your name so you
can use it as a ‘signature’
Coaching: Consider two accounts, personal and business, to address
your personal and business goals
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Picture. Include professional-like photo with a close up on your
smiling face sans pets, boats, QR codes and significant others. Pics are
limited to 160kb and 128x x 128x
Perfect Picture
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Coaching: Include the same photo from your LinkedIn profile for
consistency, ensuring you are looking left or directly into the camera

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Be-Findable Bio
Bio. Use 160 characters to create a humanizing description of yourself
Coaching: Treat your bio as SEO copy using
relevant keywords
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Link
Link. Place your website, blog, or LinkedIn profile here
Coaching: Do not enter “http:www.” when entering your
URL create a cleaner link listing
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Background. Place a dark-color, horizontal graphic that is no bigger than
1252x626 or smaller than 640 pixels wide to complement the white text
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Coaching: Include graphics and copy built into the
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Location
Location. Enter the largest and closest area or city
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Coaching: Use the location that will
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Pictures
Pictures. Tweet relevant pictures to complement your profile
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Coaching: Take and tweet at least 6 pictures to
get the most use from this gallery

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Lists
Lists. Create up to 20 lists to categorize and follow up to 500 users in
each list. Lists are limited to 25 characters. This area includes your lists
and the lists in which others have placed you
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Coaching: You can include someone in your list who
you don’t follow to see their tweets

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Favorites
Favorites. Favorite 5 tweets weekly to keep this area
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Coaching: Use this area to build a short testimonial
list from favorites that mention you

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Direct Message Folder
Direct Message (DM) Folder. Folder contains your DM’s and
DM’s/responses from others. You are limited to 250 daily DM’s
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Coaching: When this folder has a blue dot over it, it means you
have a message! Check for messages a few times a day

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@Connect / Interactions
Interactions. This folder notes everytime someone follows,
favorites, mentions, retweets, or places you on a list
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Coaching: Use these interactions as a way to start and continue a
public conversation. It’s also a great way to increase your Klout score

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@Connect / Mentions
Following. Notes every time someone mentions you in a Tweet with a
Reply or Mention. There is overlap with the Interactions ‘folder’
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Coaching: Automatically follow people who RT and
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Following
Following. Follow people who complement your personal brand
and goals. You can follow up to 2,000 without any ‘problems’.
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Coaching: Automatically follow people who RT and
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Tweets. Lists all of your Tweets
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Coaching: You are limited to 1,000 daily Tweets

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NAME
Lists. Create up to 20 lists to
categorize and follow up to 500
users in each list
Coaching: You can include
someone in your list who you
don’t follow to see their tweets
CATEGORY
(160 char)
TWEETS
Picture
(160kb,
128x128px)
@TWITTER_HANDLE
TWITTER BIO
LOCATION
LINK
FOLLOWING
FOLLOWERS
FAVORITES
LISTS
TWEETS
(25 char.)
Link. Place your website, blog, or
LInkedIn profile here
Coaching: Do not enter
“http:www.” when entering your
URL create a cleaner link listing
Following. Follow people who
complement your personal brand
and goals
Coaching: Automatically follow
people who RT and mention you
Picture. Include professional-like photo
with a close up on your smiling face sans
pets, boats, QR codes and significant others
Coaching: Include the same photo from
your LinkedIn profile for consistency,
ensuring you are looking left or directly
into the camera
Name & Handle. Keep your handle
as close as possible to your name so
you can use it as a ‘signature’
Coaching: Consider two accounts,
personal and business, to address
your personal and business goals
Bio. Use 160 characters to create a
humanizing description of yourself
Coaching: Treat your bio as SEO
copy using relevant keywords
Location. Enter the largest
and closest area or city
Coaching: Use the location
that will show up when
others geo-search
Pictures. Tweet relevant pictures to
complement your profile
Coaching: Take and tweet at least 6 pictures
to get the most use from this gallery
Background. Place a dark-color, horizontal graphic
that is no bigger than 1252x626 or smaller than 640
pixels wide to complement the white text
Coaching: Include graphics and copy built into the
background to expand your overall profile
Favorites. Favorite 5 tweets
weekly to keep this area relevant
Coaching: Use this area to build a
short testimonial list from
favorites that mention you

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