Most of you who read my blog will have read several of the Twitter Tips that I post every now and again, such as gaining followers, finding who unfollowed you and even ways of helping your influence by getting more ReTweets.

Recently I stumbled across the website Easy Retweet, which not only allows you to get other to ReTweet your tweets, but it also help in gaining Twitter Followers as well!

Using Easy Retweet To Gain ReTweets And Followers Is So Easy

Simply sign up with your Twitter account via Twitter Oauth and then fill in your bio and then you are away, you will get free credits for signing up with EasyRetweet and you can use these in several ways to promote your tweets, Twitter and even your website!

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Inactive Twitter Users, What Do You Do With Them!

One of the most popular blog posts here on Blazing Minds happens to be “How To Find Out Who Unfollowed You On Twitter” and in that post I talk about using a Twitter Tool to find those tweeters that may have followed you and then unfollowed you. But what about those inactive Twitter users that you may have followed, but they don’t do anything.

Yes I know I’ve posted about this in “How To Unfollow Non Tweeting Tweeters On Twitter” but I thought it may be a good idea to give you some further options and some other Twitter Tools that do the same thing and to see if they are all correct.

Are You Unfollowing Someone Who IS Tweeting?

So I took 3 Twitter Websites to test the theory that sometimes you could be unfollowing loads of inactive twitter users for not tweeting, when in fact, they are tweeting. By removing them could in turn do a slight be of damage to your Klout score and your reputation!
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Facebook and Google, both are trying very hard to pin down the popular micro blogging site Twitter. Twitter currently holds 300 million users and is still not match for Facebook’s 750 million users. In spite of the fact; both Google and Facebook are leaving no stone unturned to actually buy it.

The Twitter story

Twitter is an online social networking and micro blogging service. It allows its users to send and read text based tweets of up to 140 characters. Twitter was officially released in the July of 2006. Even after six years of its launch, all three of its founders, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams, are still involved with the site’s development.
This has helped twitter to stay focused without losing sight of its original goals or without coming under the pressure of commercialization. But due to its astounding success others have definitely come under the pressure.
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Twitter has gone through some changes and additions this year. With a new look supporting a sleeker design and a new version of the home page, increasing the city base to include an additional 70 cities and countries within the Local trends feature, promoting tweets in users’ timelines (though you would only see them if you followed the brand) and finally a return to simplicity by hinting at a unification of Twitter’s various interfaces.

With respect to promoting tweets what you have is promoted tweets from companies that are similar to the companies you already follow. Since you’d be seeing those brands’ tweets anyway, the only difference you’d notice was that some of those tweets were “sticky,” meaning they would stay at the top of your timeline until you read them. What was just announced was by Dicl Costolo ““You’ll start to see promoted tweets from companies you don’t follow.”” this means that everyone would start to see promoted tweets in their timeline, regardless of how they were accessing Twitter. It did not matter whether you’re on the company’s mobile client, Twitter.com, or a third-party service like TweetDeck. Ads would be there for everyone.

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FourSquare is one of those sites that people to love or hate and even though some may think it’s a complete waste of time, think again!

I first started using FourSquare when I saw some fellow friends on twitter mentioning where they were, so I stopped by, signed up and didn’t do much about it after that.

Some time later when I got my BlackBerry Curve I started delving in to FourSquare a bit more often and even though the Curve 8520 doesn’t have GPS, FourSquare still tries to find locations via cell towers.

Grabbing A Special Via FourSquare

One thing that I did start noticing after a while were there seemed to be a lot more “specials” appearing at some of the places that I was visiting, some for being the mayor and others for the amount of times you have visited.

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Twitter may seem like a straightforward social platform, but it isn’t always easy to get people to pay attention to you. Lady Gaga may have more than 10 million followers -by now, its probably much more than that, but Lady Gaga is not the average Twitter user. Here are a few ways to dig deeper into Twitter and understand it a bit better as a first-time tweeter.

from gurutwitter

Twitter has quite a few different capabilities that a lot of people don’t know about. Did you know that you can search by #hashtag? For example, the ‘trending’ hashtags today on Twitter are:

• #WarriorMovieSneakPreview
• #ThingsHoodratsLove
• #WaysToGetOffThePhone
• #WaysToPissMeOff

That first hashtag is actually sponsored – meaning a business paid for it to be promoted. Sometimes people will use a certain hashtag for a certain event or place say, for example, #London. And if you feel like drilling down further with your Twitter searching, you can use other search terms (some different from standard search engine operators) including using emoticons! If you wanted to find someone tweeting right now about how they are not a fan of the Yankees, you could search “Hurricane ” and would find people who were declaring at the moment that they were not happy about a hurricane.

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Twitter is one of the most popular and easy to use social networking websites available today. The micro-blogging site is very simple – users “tweet” messages limited to 140 characters to other users known as followers.

A message feed displays the tweets of the users you follow, which can be organized into lists displaying only tweets from certain people. When signing up to Twitter, a profile can be made either public (where tweets are able to be viewed by anyone) or private (where followers can be either accepted or rejected).

A key component of Twitter’s appeal is the use of hash tags. A hash tag is a word or phrase preceded by a pound symbol (#) relating to a certain topic. Using a hash tag creates a link which can be followed to a feed of tweets all with the same tag.

In this way it is possible to view a large list of tweets about the same subject, including those from users you do not follow. There are even “trending topics” relevant to a chosen area which cover the most popular subjects by hash tag usage.

The following tips can help maximize Twitter’s capability as a powerful social media tool for beginner users.
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