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5 naming tips for your new Twitter account

The web is full of “naming gurus” selling names to big companies for thousands of dollars. They claim they’ve got the solution to every naming issue. The truth is that the only one who can really make up your name is… you. You can save time and money by simply understanding what is important in order to make your username effective. If you’re new in social media and want to create a Twitter account, a Facebook fan page or whatever, you can consider these very basic tips in order to create a good name, be you a personal user or a new brand. Your name should reflect your identity and your “tone”.

How To Get Ideas
Good names don’t just appear magically! You have to evaluate different candidates and to do this you can combine different words and/or expressions which are related to either you or your product. If you need some help to explore naming possibilities, go and try Visual Thesaurus, an interactive tool that allows you to discover the connections between words and concepts you’re thinking about. You can get inspiration by adding something to an already established keyword (you can add other roots, affixes or find rhymes with this tool) or by “looking” at your words with a visual dictionary.

Be Unique
You must distinguish yourself somehow, and a unique name is one of the things that can help you. Would Starbucks have been so successful if its name was “Coffee Lovers”? Go and take a zero Google match, one or two words nobody has ever thought about. It would be great to have the same name across different social platforms: a good way to ensure that your dream name is available in major websites is Namechk, which allows you check the availability of your desired username in a few seconds.

To Understand or not to Understand?
Many people think that a good name should be a plain description of what you or your product are: fashiongeek, elearninguru, learnkanji, sellmore etc. Others think your priority must be a catchy name with exotic orthography and strange spelling, like Zymbraa, Goyoyix, Japnya or something like that. I think there is no rigid rule: probably if you are an independent user it is better to be unique, but one should seek a balance between catchiness and understandability according to the aim of your online activity. Your name should be appealing to your intended audience, so don’t call your dental plate firm “Teeth”.

People Must Remember
Many web names are great, but they are not successful. Why? You have to make sure your name will be remembered, otherwise the girl you met at the airport won’t find you on Twitter, and you will not sell a copy of your new ebook! According to my personal experience as a web user, these are good name patterns for a web name:

1. [NOUN] [NOUN] – where there is a unusual combination of terms; example: Rocket Ranch.
2. BLEND – again, the combination must be unusual and unattested! example: Listorious
3. [NOUN or clipped noun]+[verbal suffix] – These names are excellent “calls to action”; example: Domize

Think About Other Languages
One common mistake in naming is not considering how your candidate name sounds in other languages. The name of a famous medicinal tea company means “(s)he uses drugs” in Italian: needless to say, no market in Italy! Especially if you are going international, take the time to ask around some non-English speaker what they think about your name. Sometimes, the finest word in one language can be the worst swearword in another.

All new fun to use automate your Тwitter account

I am happy to announce everyone that I already finished Labtweets huge upgrade. It’s called Autofollowscript now

Overview:

Build solid Twitter Accounts that are highly targeted to your business, service or affiliate offer.
Follow people exactly when they are interested in your product, service or affiliate offer.
Easy Install! Runs on your desktop. ( windows version )
Your Twitter account information stays on your computer.
Features:

Handling Unlimited Twitter Accounts.
Auto Download Account Followers List.
Auto Search for twitter users to follow targeted to your niche via keyword.
Auto Search for twitter users to follow by Bio.(new)
Auto Search for twitter users to follow By location (with miles).(new)
Auto Search for twitter users to follow By zipcode.(new)
attitudes support ( postive, negative and asking a question ).(new)
Get user’s followers or friends and follow them ( via screen name ).
Follow all users who are following you and send them direct message in automated mode ( set your own timer to check who followed you every x min(s) and follow him back ).(new)
Unfollow all users who are not following you anymore ( add users to white list to not be unfollowed ). (new)

Update your account status with just one click.
Add unlimited count of tweets and let the software tweet them in auto mode every x amount of minutes ( export and import tweets from account to another ).
shorting url included.
Automatically send RSS Feed tweets from any of rss link from RSS Blaster (new)
Generate rss news via keywords with rss blaster (new)
Super Tweets – When a person says something, “I want iphone” , software will reply to him with a user inputted tweet, “@personwhotweeted ,Check out my site to get free iphone.
and much more

System Requirements

Windows Operating system
Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
Twitter Account
.Net Frame work 3.5 ( available @ : Microsoft .Net framework 3.5
Internet Connection
Online Help

Check our software tour video at : http://www.autofollowscript.com
Check the training videos in details at : http://www.autofollowscript.com/video2.php

Best of the best Twitter trick, get thousands of people following you

1. Go to : twittercounter.com/pages/100
There you will find list of top 100 twitters with most followers, now you can move on and see other people as well but I stick to the top guns.

2.Select 10 people that you wanna target, or in other words 10 people that you want to follow “like I follow top 10 guys sometimes I go to lower down the list and find people with 20-30k followers so on and so fourth. For time being to get started just start with top 10.

3. Open 10 tabs and in each tab you must have each profile open, so tab 1 = profile 1, tab 2 = profile 2, so on and so fourth so you have 10 tabs with 10 twitter profiles of top 10 twitter gamers.

4. Now follow all of them, one by one follow all the 10.

5. Now here is the TRICK, every time you follow someone your name comes on top of their list of followers, so anyone who is following them will follow you, anyone who is following their followers will follow you first, anyone checking their profile will check your profile, anyone that sees their twit see yours first, so if you have 10 profiles and you keep following and unfollowing them every 5 minutes within 10 minutes you will have 200-300 people following you.

How this works?

Basically top 10 twitter guys get 1000s and 1000s of adds every hour (not only that they get thousands and thousands of visitors to their profile), and when they are adding they check their followers so if you are on top of their list they follow you as well. Or if anyone else is using bot to follow the followers of these top 10 you will be the first one they will follow.

This is a bug and it works all the time. I have 30 profiles open and I just follow them and after 5 minutes I unfollow all of them, I do this for few hours a day and then I get 500 followers I stop and continue next day.

How to create a custom background for Twitter

Here is a link, to a video, showing how to create a custom Twitter background, using Keynote.

Make money with Twitter

So we have been going on many forums and people are giving the same old fashioned way of making money by making 100’s of accounts and using automation and making money. I honestly don’t know how many people are really successful because not many are.

It’s literally spamming Twitter, don’t know how people expect to say that they are having crazy conversion rates because everyone who is following you currently is only following you the same reason you are following them to make money or gain followers they could care less about the products you are offering they just care about their follow counts and making money.
How you should use Twitter? You Should Treat your Twitter account the same way you treat your Email List. You are not going to spam the crap out of people are you? You should build and engage with your followers and interact with them.
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Twitter dictionary or how-to start

Twitter – A social networking site that allows you to keep in touch by sending out quick, frequent messages.

Tweet – A short (140 character) message.

Tweeple – People who use Twitter.

Mistweet – A tweet you didn’t mean to send or a tweet with a poor choice or misspelled words.

TweetUp – An ‘in person’ meeting between Twitter users.

Twoosh – A perfect 140 character tweet.

Followers – Tweeters who are following your tweets. Followers will see any updates you make on their homepage of Twitter.

Following – Tweeters you’re following. You will see any updates (tweets) on your homepage from anyone you’re following.

Direct Messages – You can send a direct message to another user by using the message link on their profile page, the reply icon from your own direct message, or using the command d + username + message. Only you and the person you are direct messaging will see the contents of the tweets.

Favorites – You can store any of your favorite tweets by clicking the star icon by the message. (You must hover over the message to see this icon).

@replies – By using the @ + username, you can direct a tweet at a specific user. This type of messaging is publicly visible.

ReTweet – To re-send a previous tweet or to resend someone else’s tweet so it reaches a larger audience.

Since tweets are limited to 140 characters, acronyms and short hand run rampant all over the site. To help you understand what’s going on and write your own short and sweet tweets, check out this list of acronyms.

Twitter can help a bad memory

Have you seen the Hangover? If not, you may want to grab the eight other people out there who haven’t and go give it a peek. Without ruining it for all eight of you, here is a quick rundown.

A group of four friends go to Vegas to celebrate an upcoming wedding. After a long night of bachelor party fun, they lose the groom. The remaining three spend the bulk of the movie trying to remember what happened, find their friend and make it back to the wedding in LA.

Had the guys took advantage of their Twitter account and used a few of these simple tips, many pitfalls and shenanigans from the day after could have been avoided. I am not a fan of using cliches, but hindsight is 20/20. (I’ll admit if they did use any or all of these tips, it would have made for a really boring movie.)

1. Mobile Updates

Everyone is talking, texting and taking pics and video from their phone when they are out for a night on the town. Using your mobile device to take pictures of your night is commonplace. For smartphone owners posting to Twitter is super easy with apps like Ubertwitter or Tweetie.

If you have a standard voice only phone you can MMS (picture message) your mobile photography to a web app such as Twitpic. Twitpic has a dedicated email address for you to send the MMS to.
Here are the steps to find out where to send the MMS to:

1. Log into Twitpic using your Twitter credentials

2. Go to settings and you’ll see the email address Twitpic has created for you.

3. Copy that email address and add it to your phone.
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7 deadly sins of twitter

Twitter is a bright, shiny universe of new friends, new ideas, hilarious little snippets and occasionally even a spot of news. It’s a great way to promote your blog or your business. But if your primary purpose on twitter is promotion and not to connect with other people – abandon ship. Twitter is not for you. Ulterior motives don’t do well. They result in one action: UNFOLLOW. Mistakes are easy when you start out. After all, no-one is updating their status – they’re engaging with one another! And that’s confusing – is it private or can you join in? How do you make the most of it and have fun? Well for starters you could avoid the most irritating twitter behaviours. And before you start trawling through my twitter stream – yes I have committed most of them.

1. Gluttony (Over-Sharing)
Do not, I repeat do not over-share. Do you really want to know about someone else’s digestive problems? I didn’t think so. When you went into graphic detail about your gastric flu did you consider all the people reading your tweets while they were eating? Your followers should be wanting to know more about you, not less.

2. Pride (Over-Promotion)
People get pretty sick of you if all they here are continual, duplicated plugs for whatever it is that you’re promoting. The argument that some of your followers may have missed it because of the timing doesn’t hold water. It’s extremely irritating to see exactly the same tweet repeated. Get creative and find a way to send the same link in a different way. For example “my loyal follower has just commented at my blog, what do you think?” And yes over-promotion includes blathering about blog stats, follower numbers or fans.

3. Sloth (Automatic Anything)
Anything that is automated means that you don’t care enough to make it personal. This includes automated DM messages for new followers, an automatic tweet in response to keywords or an auto-follow in response to keywords. This puts you squarely into the spambot category. If you don’t want to spend the time on twitter to be personal, don’t bother at all.

4. Greed (Not Engaging)
Things get pretty boring pretty fast if all you do is update your status, post links, post pictures and promote your blog. In order for people to care about any of that, you need to engage with them. This involves replying when something sparks your interest, or you think you can be of help; re-tweeting where you can add value; and getting involved in the discussion.

5. Envy (Crashing the Party)
Work out the difference between joining the discussion and crashing someone’s private conversation. If a tweet starts with @user it generally means it’s not for public debate because if the author wanted everyone they follow to see it there would be another character in front of the @user to make it visible to everyone. But if you really want to participate in the discussion at the very least acknowledge that you’re crashing. It’s less douchey that way.

6. Wrath (Blasting)
I don’t care how passionate you are about your topic, there is no excuse for blasting. There is nothing wrong with how passionate you are and that passion will probably lead you to find many like-minded people on twitter. But (and it’s a big but), ramming your opinion down someone else’s throat when they don’t agree with you is no way to promote your cause or yourself – particularly if you haven’t taken the time to get to know the person at the end of your rant. I’m sorry activists but twitter isn’t really designed for you because you end up unleashing the bulk of your argument about a theory on one person. Not really fair is it?

7. Lust (Celebrity Stalking)
Everyone loves to follow a celebrity or two. Nothing wrong with that. Although fair warning if you follow @mrskutcher and @aplusk you will have to witness some pretty treacly interchanges. It’s not the celebrity part that is the problem it’s all of their followers. If you say anything at all that could be vaguely interpreted as negative, be prepared for all of their followers to be all over you like a rash. In part because celebrities are so idolised but mostly because deep down their followers are thinking that by attacking you, ‘the hater’, the celebrity will acknowledge them, and might actually follow them back. So avoid the lemmings, they’re not worth it.

10 Twitter tips for beginners

1. Set up your profile

The first thing you need to do is to set up that profile. See that bar on top of your twitter page? Click Settings and start filling up your profile. The notable areas in here are URL, bio, picture and design. Put up a link to your site or blog in here along with a brief description. Upload a picture to differentiate yourself from the others and then tweak your Twitter design. Like any other social networking site, it is important to completely express what you are or what you stand for in your profile.

2. Follow people with similar interests

Now that you have a profile, start following people. You can find these people in Twitter directories. I use Twellow and JustTweetIt. These sites can introduce you to Twitter users that have the same interest as yours. Follow these people and observe their tweets. You may also try following who these people follow but read up their descriptions and visit their blogs to make sure you’re still on the right niche. Being on the right niche will make it easy for you to build a community with a similar interest.

3. Get into the conversation

So now that you are following people, you will now see some tweets on your board. Read up on what the people your following are up to and reply if it interests you. For example, a person narrates how he is going to conduct a meeting. You may then reply with ideas. When someone asks a question, don’t hesitate to answer if you know it. Don’t be afraid to interact.

4. Don’t spam

Spam is the cause of many unfollows on Twitter. There is a character limit for a reason. Do not send repeated messages to people. Do not constantly direct message (DM) them with links.

5. Update daily

Alright so you’re blending in the community. Now update daily if possible. I know some Twitter users who unfollow because of inactivity. Reply to people and update people with what’s going on with your life. Soon you’ll be recognized and you’ll get some follows.

6. Find the latest buzz and contribute

Now it’s your time to contribute. Find a topic that will interest your niche and tweet it. Since you have established relationships with your followers (through replies), you will get more attention. It’s a nice strategy to always append “please retweet” at the end of your tweet. There will be some people who will be so interested that they will retweet. There are others who will reply to you about the link you tweeted. But you are not a “nobody” anymore. You are not just talking to yourself. People are now responding to your tweets.

7. Help other people out

The famous saying “Do unto others what you want others to do unto you” holds here. Before you can receive retweets, you must help others first by retweeting their messages. Help the people in your niche. One day you’ll be surprised on how eager they are to help you back.

8. Create relationships

Now it’s time to create constant connections. Soon you will find that some users are more active than others. You will get to talk with the same group of people at the same time every night. But don’t get bored. Interact with these people and create relationships. Ask how they are doing and try to touch on their interests.

9. Integrate Twitter with other social networks

Have a blog? Then post to Twitter when you have a post that will interest your niche. Have a Facebook profile? Then ask people to add you. Twitter is really a vital part of web 2.0. It can serve as the core. It can let you build relationships that can branch out to other social networks.

10. Establish relationships even outside Twitter

Have a lot of friends on Twitter? Then take it to another level. Ask for their messenger and talk to these people on a more intimate level. Call them through Skype or even arrange a meet-up. Twitter can create real relationships.

Congratulations! You are now an official member of the Twitter community. You talk, act, think and breathe like us. Perhaps you find yourself spending every five minutes updating Twitter on what you are doing. But I guess I’ll save Twitter addiction for next time.