Internet business: How to find people to follow on Twitter

October 30, 10:57 AMInternet Business ExaminerPhyllis Zimbler Miller

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Who you follow on Twitter is important because this impacts your ability to learn specific types of information as well as impacts who follows you.

Twitter provides you with four ways to find people to follow through the “find people” tab:

• “Find on Twitter” option allows you to search by username or by first and last name.

• “Find on other networks” is the same email address option you were offered when you first joined.

• “Invite by email” allows you to send invites to people not yet on Twitter.

• “Suggested users” recommends people for you to follow.

The search field option is on the sidebar of your Twitter home page and is a search function in which you can type keywords.

If you type in bookmarketing, for example, you will get the most recent tweets mentioning bookmarketing.

You can also use http://search.twitter.com for the same type of search, and there’s an advanced search option.

There are several third-party applications that allow you to find people to follow. Here are a few:

• Tweetbeep.com – functions like Google alerts. You put in keywords you want tracked and you are alerted when tweets mention these keywords. You then click on who sent the tweets and decide if you want to follow that person. (This is my favorite.)

Here are three applications described by Steve Weber (@WeberBooks on Twitter) in his book Twitter Marketing: Promote Yourself and Your Business on Earth’s Hottest Social Network:

• Directory of book trade people compiled by @JenniferTribe
• Top business executives on Twitter
• WeFollow.com – directory organized by interests

There’s also the directory of book authors on Twitter compiled by @JenniferTribe

And book marketer John Kremer (@JohnKremer on Twitter) has an extensive list of “Twitter Tools for Finding People”

Follow me on Twitter at @ZimblerMiller and get the Miller Mosaic information package “What You Should Know About Using Twitter Effectively and Strategically”

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