Tweet, Tweet

I read everything that lands in my mailbox. You just never know where good information may be hiding.

This month I stumbled upon Realtor magazine. On page 11 of the September issue, I found a great little cheat sheet for easy Twitter tips. When you join Twitter, you're sort of on your own when it comes to learning the tricks of the trade. Here are five easy hints to get you started:

1. Send tweets regularly - maybe once a day or a few times a week. The more you tweet the more people will follow.

2. Place a hashtag(#) in front of key words in your message so they can be found in Twitter's public search tool (http://search.twitter.com).

3. Link to articles and web sites by using free sites Budurl (www.budurl.com) or TinyURL (www.tinyurl.com). These keep you from eating up 140 characters with a long link address.

4. TweetDeck is a free app (http://tweetdeck.com) that helps you manage your Twitter account right from your mobile phone or desktop.

5. Interact with your followers by tweeting about and commenting on their posts. This helps get your name out there!

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