I taught the "Top 3 Tips With Twitter" for 3Rd Tech Tuesday for the wonderful business owners at the Castle Rock Chamber of Commerce. Please feel free to download and share.

1. Twitter: Top 3-Tips for More Success
Michelle Post, Ph.D., CSMS

2. Lessons to Learn
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3. TWITTER BACKGROUNDS

4. Size Does Matter
Going Social’s Twitter Cheat Sheet for Sizing

5. What a “Raw” Background Looks Like

6. Steps to Creating a TW Profile
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7. TW Practices & Examples
• Make It Count! Best Practices for Optimizing
Your Twitter Profile -
http://financialsocialmedia.com/best-practices-
optimize-twitter-profile/
• How to Use Twitter for Business: Best Practices
& Branding Guidelines -
http://www.rakacreative.com/blog/post/twitter-
for-business-best-practices-branding-guidelines
• [INFOGRAPHIC] How Top Brands Are
Using Twitter -
http://simplymeasured.com/blog/2014/01/30/in
fographic-how-top-brands-are-using-twitter/
• Twitter Profile Design Best Practices -
http://www.pagemodo.com/blog/twitter-
profile-design-practices

8. Tools to Make TW Backgrounds
• 40 Tools To Spice Up Your Twitter
Background -
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/free-
online-tools-to-spice-up-twitter-
background/
• Social Media Image Maker -
http://www.autreplanete.com/ap-social-
media-image-maker/#twitter
• TwitrCovers - http://www.twitrcovers.com/
• TwitrCover - http://www.twitrcover.com/
• FreeTwitterHeaders -
http://freetwitterheaders.net/
• TwitterHeaders -
http://www.twitterheaders.co/
• TwitHeaders - http://twitheaders.com/

9. Tutorials for Creating TW Backgrounds
• How To Create Awesome Twitter Header Cover In
2 Minutes -
http://www.techij.com/2013/12/how-create-
twitter-header-covers.html
• How to make a Twitter background -
http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/how-
to-make-a-twitter-background/#!AnjZZ
• How to Change Twitter Cover & Twitter
Background 2014 Video - Twitter Training Course -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyWanHnIGy
g
• How to Optimize Your Twitter Background -
http://www.lanspeed.com/blog/entry/how-to-
optimize-your-twitter-background.html
• Photo Tutorial: Fast and Easy Custom Twitter
Background With PicMonkey -
http://eatplaylove.blogspot.com/2014/01/photo-
tutorial-fast-and-easy-custom.html
• Twitter Sizing Cheat Sheet -
http://i.imgur.com/gMpPkFL.jpg
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10. TWITTER LISTS

11. Twitter Lists: Where to Begin
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Twitter List(s) are another way to follow others on Twitter.

12. All Things Twitter Lists
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Tutorials
• How to Get Started With New Twitter Lists -
http://mashable.com/2013/05/31/new-twitter-lists/
• How to Create a Twitter List - http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Twitter-List
Different Ways to Use Lists
• 10 Ways to Use Twitter Lists
[Infographic] -
http://www.brittanyberger.com/20
13/05/15/twitter-list-uses/
• How to Use Twitter Lists Like a Pro
- http://daveadelaney.com/how-
to-use-twitter-lists-like-a-pro/

13. Steps to Creating Lists &
Subscribing to Lists
Creating Your Own List
1. From your profile select Lists
2. From the List Menu, select Create
List
3. Enter a name for the new list
4. Enter a short description for the
new list
5. Select if it will be Public or Private
6. Find followers to add to the list
7. Then Select Add or Remove from
lists from the user’s profile
8. Then from the List menu select the
List you want to add them to and
close the window
9. You can create a 1,000 Lists with a
maximum of 5,000 people in each
List
Subscribing to Other’s Lists
1. Select a Twitter Profile that you like
2. Click on their Lists from the left
menu
3. Scroll down to the full listing of Lists
4. Select the List you are interested in,
and click on the List to open it
5. From the left menu select the
Subscribe button and you will be
subscribed to the list you selected
6. To verify you have the list go back
to your profile and review your Lists
to see if the new List you
subscribed to is there
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Tip: Click on a List to view Tweets
quickly instead of reading your stream

14. CONTENT TYPES
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15. Types of Content to Tweet
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Types of Content to Tweet
• NOTE: Findings below are based on 1,000 users & 398,582 tweets
• Users tweeted images 361% more than video
• Images get 128% more Retweets
• Videos are favored 49% more than images
• 62% of images were Humor based
• 93% of all tweets analyzed were text based
• 65% of the text based tweets contained a link
• Texts with links are Retweeted 86% more often
• Tweets with links under 100 characters, have 17% more engagement
• Drive traffic to your website with a tweet with a link
• Tweets with lists and how-to articles perform better
• Quotes out perform questions
Read the full findings at: What Type of Content Gets Shared the Most on Twitter? -
http://www.quicksprout.com/2014/03/05/what-type-of-content-gets-shared-the-most-on-
twitter/

16. Best Times To Post on Twitter
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To see the full Infographic read: The Best Times To Post On
Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn And Pinterest

17. Additional Resources
• Fiverr Twitter Background Designers -
http://www.fiverr.com/twistedweb123
• Andrea Vahl’s Twitter Checklist -
http://www.andreavahl.com/twitter/twitter-checklist-
infographic.php
• 10 Twitter Best Practices for 2014 -
http://www.steamfeed.com/10-twitter-best-practices-2014/
• 3 Tools To Help You Come Up With Your Next Tweet -
https://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/three-twitter-
tools_b55754#more-55754
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18. Additional Resources
• What is a Twitter List or a List on Twitter? -
http://www.nicklewiscommunications.com/what-
is-a-twitter-list-or-a-list-on-twitter/
• 25 Clever Twitter Keyboard Shortcuts -
http://mashable.com/2013/02/20/twitter-
shortcuts/
• 10 Types of Social Media Content You Should be
Sharing - http://www.zootrock.com/choosing-
social-media-content/
©Michelle Post, Ph.D., CSMS

19. REFERENCES
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20. References
• Free tutorial icon [Image file]. (n.d.). Retrieved
http://optimisemybusinessonline.com/wp-
content/uploads/2011/02/free-tutorial-icon.jpg
• Patel, N. (2014, March 5). What Type of Content Gets
Shared the Most on Twitter? [Blog post]. Retrieved
from http://www.quicksprout.com/2014/03/05/what-
type-of-content-gets-shared-the-most-on-twitter/
• Slide 8 and 15 images are from Google Images “free to
use or share, even commercially” Usage Rights
• Twitter images courtesy of Twitter and Michelle Post
profile
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21. Michelle Post, Ph.D., CSMS
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22. #3RdTT Workshops for 2014
• April 15 - Top 3-Tips for LinkedIn
• May 20 - Top 3-Tips for Google+
• June 17 - Social Media: Do It Yourself or Outsource
– Which is Cheaper?
• July 15 - Outsourcing with Fiverr
• Aug 19 - Finding Your Target Market for Facebook,
Twitter, and LinkedIn
• Sept 16 - Creating a Social Media Campaign for
Brand Awareness
• Oct 21 - Content Curation Tools are Cool
• Nov 18 - Keywords are Key
• Dec 16 - How do you measure up? Performing a
Self-Social Media Audit
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