Improve Your Twitter Presence with Yolande Poirier
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Turbocharge Your Profile
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Your Profile picture should be a personal picture, that shows your face well. Avoid cartoons and other images that won\'t show you as a real person.
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Banner Picture: the banner also helps you show you are a real person. Add an image that relates to what you do or to the communities you are part of. Don\'t leave this empty.
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Description: describe clearly what you do and what you will talk about. Your audience should understand how relevant your content is for them. Your Celebrity Statement here will be perfect.
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Create Great Content
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Focus, Focus, Focus: your content should be focused on your topic and in the needs of your audience. Some random content is OK, but keep an overwhelm ratio of relevant content.
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Pinned Tweet: add your best tweet as a pinned tweet. This will help whoever comes to your profile to understand what you tweet about, and decide to follow you.
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Content: write tutorials and other content that is relevant to your audience. Post descriptive tweets that focus on your audience. Make them curious to click and read the content.
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Retweet: retweet great content that is relevant to your audience. Even better, add your comments or quote an important part of the content. That way, your retweet becomes relevant.
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Increase Your Credibility
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Follow the Right People: following relevant people in your interest area and in your community will provide great content for you to share, and will help people decide to follow you.
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Hashtags: tag your content with interesting hashtags that other people are paying attention. Campaigns like #100DaysOfJava and similar are great to promote your content to the community.