Tips on how to get the word out about your twitter account.

1. Advertising Your Twitter Account

3. Link to your account from your Facebook site

4. Follow other units/senior officials/services

5. Try to have those you follow retweet something you said.

6. Ask other posts to follow you once you follow them

8. Follow the instructions on the site.

10. Advertising unit events such as contests, community service events, family days, etc.

11. Linking to photos from these events.

12. Linking to content on your other social media sites.

13. Link to content created by others.

14. DoDLive.com articles, blogs, and photos

15. Other social media sites (YouTube, Facebook)

17. Search the "following" lists of others to get ideas for new groups or organizations.

18. Take advantage of the DoD Leaders twitter list, the Pentagon Press Corps twitter list, or the DoD Twittererlist, which include a variety of principles, senior officers, and other service members who tweet.

19. Going to be using a unique hash tag for a special event? Tweet it! And ask others to Retweet it.

20. Don't bombard your followers with tweets. Unless live-tweeting a major event, 10 tweets max per day, and spread them out.

21. Adopt a voice. Don't sound too formal, but stay professional. Let your followers know there's a real person behind that embassy name!

22. Have an interesting image on your profile, not just your service seal.

23. You don’t have to tweet from Twitter.com. You can use a program like HootSuite.com or TweetDeck.com so you can track your stats.

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