How to use Twitter ?

The average Twitter user follows five or more businesses.

You can search terms, keywords and people by entering them into the toolbar at the top of the page on Twitter.

There are 241 million monthly active users for Twitter.

If you recognise the person or organisation you’re interested in, click Follow next to their search res

if you are in sales, try searching #sales and related keywords you have identified using the Google Keyword Tool

Per day 500 million Tweets are sent per day.

You can capture leads on Twitter with Twitter cards.

Most of the active users for Twitter are from mobile, which is 76%.

if you wanted to see tweets related to the Inside Sales Virtual Summit, enter #SalesSummit into the search bar, and all tweets tagged #SalesSummit

23% of accounts are from U.S. Rest 77% are from rest of the world.

Hashtags.org provides research to help businesses improve social networking strategies.

More than 35 languages are supported by Twitter.

Once you have decided why you are using Twitter, what your target audience is and gone through the initial setup, now you want to show up in search. Include keywords in your Twitter profile.

The time that took to get the billionth tweet is 3 years, 2 months and 1 day.

The best way to build your network is to target your content specifically to those who would be interested in following you and make it really interesting and valuable.

307 is the number, that the average user Tweets

36 million is the number of unique visitors to Twitter.

I follow you then (hopefully) you follow me. This is by far the most common way to get followers. Twitter puts limits on how many users you can follow. Here are the guidelines: “Every account can follow 2,000 users total.

Once you’ve followed 2,000 users, there are limits to the number of additional users you can follow. This number is different for each account and is based on your ratio of followers to following; this ratio is not published.”

184 million are the mobile monthly active users.

I click ‘favorite’ on your Tweet, then you follow me. This method helps you gain targeting following by first finding Tweets that match your interests and targeted keywords. Then you click ‘favorite’ and often they reciprocate.

1 in 13 Tweets contains a Curse word.

You follow me, I give you something: information, ebook, etc. Make sure to give away something that your target audience will value. Make it easy for people to claim their reward.

9% is the share of overall selfies that are shared on social media.

The fan-follower rule: You follow a celebrity, they tweet you about them. You follow a celebrity types to keep up on their tweets. Twitter helped this process a lot by featuring the Twitter address of famous people in the Twitter registration process.