Greetings,
I am writing today to share with you and the world my simple strategy to utilize Twitter to increase your online efforts reach and meet a whole bunch of fun and exciting people along the way!
I also want to point out why you should post or cross-post your work on www.GrizzlyGroundswell.com .
I take my position as uniting the conservative thought, voice and image very seriously and Twitter is one way that I can lift up my authors of the Grizzly Groundswell and get their great thought out into the cybersphere in a really exciting way!
So, This is what it takes to utilize this simple strategy.
You first have to have a blog or online radio show or some online effort that you wish to promote. I will use www.GrizzlyGroundswell.com for my example.
You next must have an RSS or Really Simple Syndication Feed URL so that you can extend it into Twitter.com.
The Grizzly Groundswell is a wordpress blog and is really simple to find. Look for the logo off to the left of this paragraph.
The Grizzly Groundswell RSS URL is: http://grizzlygroundswell.com/feed
We will use this after we get a few more accounts set up!
Now we need to go to Twitter.com
Twitter in Plain English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
http://www.commoncraft.com
A quick and plain English intro the micro-blogging service Twitter.
Bookmark the Twitter.com page, you will be coming back often!
Click on the big green box that says:
“Join the Conversation!” or “Get Started Now” (either will show depending upon your visit!)
Username: You get 15 characters to “brand” your Twitter account. For the Grizzly Groundswell, the name of the blog is too long to be my twitter user name so I went with GrizzlyFeed
Password: Must be over 6 characters. I recommend using Capital, lowercase and atleast one number to foil take over attempts.
Email Address: If you want multiple twitter accounts to feed your multiple RSS feeds then you must have individual email accounts for each!
ReCaptcha makes sure you are human!
I passed!
I would check the “inside scoop” because it is always good to keep up with this great tool!
Feel free to gander at the terms of service!
Then click your account! That is it, you are ready to Twitter!
A: This is you Menu:
Home: This takes you back to this page where you can access all the links you can utilize in your site. Honestly, this is your Admin page.
Profile: This is your public profile page. This is where all your tweets and only your tweets show. Don’t worry about adding more followers because if they want to see what you are saying all they need to do is go to your profile page!
Find People: This handy tool lets you add people from your email contacts that may already be on Twitter. You can also email those that are not and make sure you include a link to this post! You can also search here, or use www.twitter.search.com
Settings: Here you can enter your account: settings, make sure you add your blog url, and a little about yourself! Password: can be changed. Devices: can add your mobile devices but be careful, make sure you have unlimited text, or it will cost you a bundle! Picture: add a great photo of yourself or your site brand logo! Design: allows you to pimp out your account by uploading a photo or choosing from the great array of designs twitter provides.
B: This is your Picture and your username or identity on twitter!
C: This is the guage of your influence and reach on Twitter! Your Followers! Every follower you attract means your witty and brilliant tweets will go on their feed so those following your follower can fall in love with you Tweet and follow you as well or even follow the link back to your site to find all your thought! Your goal should be to have as many followers as possible! @LeslieCarbone one of the best conservative Twitter account users out there and blogger has 2,748 followers as I write this post! She Rocks!
D: Home: Is where you can write your tweets and see all the Tweets those you are following are Tweeting in real time! If they are tweeting something interesting, jump in and reply to them! Add the “@username” then your witty addition to the conversation! So if we are going to tweet Leslie Carbone we would write
“@LeslieCarbone Your Correct! That Bail Out is out of Control! I love your tweets and I am going to follow your great Tweets! Get Grizzly!” 140 characters
@Replies: This is a list of everyone that has @replied back to YOU! I check this everytime I update my account! This is another great way to gain relationships with those you are not following you yet, and those you want to be your loyal followers and friends! Always be coureous and if you want to pick a fight, save it for your blog. Twitter is a much friendlier place then your comment sectio
n on your blog. Remember they goal is to increase your followers not scare them away!
Direct Messages: You can direct message any of your followers! This tab allows you to see who has direct messaged you and no one else can see these messages but you and the person who sent or received them!
Favorites: You can click on any tweet’s star and favorite your favorite tweet! You can do this to those you admire and those tweets you always want close. I sometimes will favorite a really stupid tweet just for a laugh later on!
Everyone: This is a great way to look into what everyone is twittering about! You may find your next great twitter friend here! Engage them and @reply them to get into the conversation!
Following: This is your gallery of the wonderful people you are following hoping that they are smart enough to follow you back!
E: your last Tweet!
F: A list of your followers tweet’s!
G: This is where all the magic happens, your blank 140 character canvas! Get Grizzly and creative and tweet what you are doing now! What great insight you have and share your silly sense of humor!
Ok, that is Twitter in a few paragraphs and a great youtube presentation!
Now, remember that RSS url? We are going to use it pretty quick!
Go to www.twitterfeed.com
Now choose #2, you already did #1
2. Login to twitterfeed using your OpenID 
OpenID is a standard for providing single sign on between web sites
You can register your own OpenID for free, or may even be able to use your existing blog ID [more]
Then after you have used your yahoo or other open id account to log in:
Go to my twitter Feeds (or create a New one)
Here is a screen shot of my account. You can see how I effectively feed my Grizzly Groundswell networks to my twitter accounts. Rather then send all my RSS feeds to one account and overwhelm my followers, I spread them out over 7 accounts. Loki842 is a friends account I worked on to help him get his great radio show out there to the world using his Twitter Account! Within 48 hours using my strategy he has almost 600 followers!
When you get to the page above you will not have any accounts set up! So lets get one set up!
Click on + Create New Twitter Feed
Sorry about the small font on the images, I have to scale them down so you can see them on the blog!
Here is the breakdown:
A: Make sure this is set to Twitter Feed
B: Enter in your Twitter username and password
C: Check this out! you can make sure your twitter username and rss feed can be read correctly!
D: Enter in your blog RSS feed url
E: Update Frequency, choose less time and more feeds for more active blogs and if you post only once a day, then your feed does not have to have more frequent updates!
F: TinyURL and TWEETBURNER are two great settings. I use Tweetburner because www.tweetburner.com allows you to track the reach of your tweets! Another Great tool!
G: This is the tag all your tweets from this RSS feed will start with!
H: Make sure this is checked to make this account active!
I: Update! You are finished and your twitterfeed is now Grizzly!
J: don’t forget to tythe if you have the means! Twitterfeed.com is an awesome tool!
OK, now lets get you some reach with some great Followers!
Time for Grizzly Groundswell Twitter Strategy!
Here goes:
Being a Great Conservative, you need to assist the rest of us conservatives by getting our message, thought, voice and image out there! therefore, 200 “quality” followers just does not cut it. Conservatives need 2Million followers. Remember, we lead from the grassroots. Everytime you hear “quality” over “quanity” remember, does that work for elections? Hell no! We need to grow our ranks in immense Grizzly ways! Example: @GrizzlyFeed Lets take a trip over to www.twinfluence.com
1,334 Friends
1,325 Followers
1,229,518 Second Order Followers!
Velocity: 11,190 second-order followers/day
Social Capital: 927.9 =0.5 High Average
Centralization: 3.36% / -0.9 Average - Fragile
Did you get that?
Each Author that posts on the Grizzly Groundswell has a potential to reach 1,229,518 potential Conservatives!
Tell me how this is not significant!
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