OK so this may not mean a lot to everyone, but it means a heck of a lot to me, over the last few months I was running a slight Twitter Contest, to finally break that 15,000 followers on Twitter that seemed to elude the @BlazingMinds Twitter for a while.

I tweeted out to my followers asking to RT a tweet about a draw which will be made when the Blazing Minds Twitter finally broke the 15,000 mark, quite a few followers ReTweeted the tweet and several ReTweeted it several times.

We Did It! Did What? We Finally Broke 15,000 Followers On Twitter!

So I’ve sorted out who has won an Exclusive Blazing Minds T-Shirt, which will be specially customized for the winner, the winner has been chosen from the 15,000 followers and it is someone who is still following and has done the most Tweets in promoting the contest and believe me it’s taken a while to sift through all the entries, but I’ve finally got down to a winner who has put in quite a lot of tweets and is a loyal follower.

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Over the last couple of days there have been many tweets flying around on Twitter about the issue with the @ Connect page on Twitter for iPhone with many users not getting any Twitter replies except in their timelines or lists.

All this is very frustrating and it still seems to be an ongoing issue that may be fix on the next update for Twitter for iPhone, but, I do have a solution, it’s not perfect, but it does work.

HOW TO .. Fix The Twitter Replies Issue On Your iPhone

First of all you will need to go in to your settings menu on your iPhone and select “Twitter”
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UPDATE: Since this post was originally written the Fame Game has sadly closed down

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to get a slice of the pie when it comes to a bit of Fame of Twitter, well now you can with the “Fame Game“!

OK! So perhaps we won’t be able to get to the dizzy heights of @LadyGaGa and her massive following of little monsters, but it would be nice to have some kind of FAME even if it’s only for one day, so let me tell you how you can get a little slice of that fame pie with FAME.

FAME is on a mission to find a new tweeter to make more famous than GaGa, it’ll certainly be interesting to see if this bit of Twitter fun will be able to pull this off, now wouldn’t that be something for the celebrity news headlines

All you have to do is connect your Twitter account:

1. Connect your Twitter to play. Each day we randomly select one FAME winner at 12 noon EST.
2. Everyone playing FAME will automatically follow the winner’s Twitter account for 24 hours.
3. The next day, a new winner is selected and the previous winner is automatically unfollowed.

Now how easy is that!

When you connect with your Twitter, you will get one entry ticket, if you decide to tweet out that you have joined the Fame Game you will get an extra “10″ tickets, then for each person that joins up using your link will give you an extra 5 tickets. The more tickets you have the better your chances of winning.

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So there I was reading through my stack of emails when I came across my Twitter stats for the week from @TheCounter, so as usual I started reading the email and came across something that caught my eye, a way of having your own Twitter infographic. Now this sounded like fun.

Thanks to this Infographic service that not only allows you to create an infographic from your Twitter as a form of face OFF with a random Twitter Celebrity but it also has a big collection of other themes for you to choose from, you can also make an infographic from your Facebook, now how cool is that

I went for the Twitterize Yourself, which for me is my overall favourite after trying the other themes, after tweeking the options for a more personal look of my character in the infographic, I hit the “Generate Infographic” button.

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If you use Twitter often then you have noticed the Twitter Lists, these can be more useful that you may think and are an ideal way of sorting out your favourite tweeters or your celebrities that you like to follow, so let’s have a look at them and find out how to make and use a Twitter list.

Those of you who do follow me on Twitter, @BlazingMinds, will have seen that I do have several list on my twitter account and I use these as a way of keeping in touch with the many followers that I have, it’s a great way of viewing a set of tweeters without trying to sift through an ever updating Twitter timeline.

How To Set Up A Twitter List

It’s really easy to set up a Twitter List, when you are viewing someone on Twitter simple click on the their profile and select the drop down menu to show several options including “Add or remove from lists”, this will also allow you to make a new lists. Then you simple create a new list or select a tick box to add the tweeter to one of your current Twitter Lists.

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Getting a significant number of twitter followers can work as a conduit for achieving prominent recognition and marketing conquest. Further, it symbolizes your statistical volume of visibility and outreach. 10 ideas that can concretize your dream follower list are:

1. Go for Power tweeters: You should always target the big guns of a particular arena. Interacting with eminent personalities makes you a social figure and you can easily build up your social relationships. This way you can expand your social network and others would like to listen to you. People would naturally want to follow you and pay more attention to your tweets.
2. Knock at the right time: Use application like Tweet O’clock that can help you in knowing the best possible time for contacting a tweeter. You can get their active timeframes on your screen and it would help you in forming vital social relationships and increase your tweet count.
3. Get your timing right: The time of tweeting can benefit you in leaps and bounds as far as your follower list is concerned. If you target the peak times wherein the rush of tweeters is maximum, you can surely make the most out of your tweets. 10:00 onwards up till 16:00 is a good time to enhance your visibility and ensure that there is a large crowd to checkout your feed. Another popular time frame for getting a good response is late night between 1-2p.m. Read the rest of this entry »

I remember those early days when Twitter first came to light in around 2006 and though I wasn’t sure about it, I left it for a little while, but then finally bit the bullet and joined in with the “tweeting” madness.

Though at first I didn’t really get it and I don’t think many people did what it was all about, I stuck with it, then years down the line when I started my blog I dropped my, little followed, account and Started up @BlazingMinds, though it has had a name change to fit in the branding of the blog.

Twitter Celebrities And The Big Question Why Do They Bother?

So those of us who have been using Twitter for years were then overwhelmed with the celebrities discovering this “new” application for them to promote the hell out of themselves and their works, TV Shows, Films etc.

But as with most celebrities they are a one-way street, with the majority of them sticking together in close groups of fellow Twitter Celebrities and only communicating with each other and totally ignoring their loyal fans and followers, with the exception of a few Twitter Celebrities such as @LadyGaGa and @GunnerGale most Twitter Celebrities just don’t bother!

Mass Twitter Followers And Not Enough Time On Their Hands

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