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Hi Jamie,

I think these tips and the tips I linked to in my previous posts should apply to any twitter account regardless of whether you are in business or a mommy-blogger or simply someone interested in sharing the news.

Thanks for your time!

Well said Claire. It’s too easy to hide behind the technology but simple manners go a long way!

Hi Suzanne,

I do not read every tweet from all my followers. But every time someone follows me, I consider whether they are a real person and if they are, then I follow them back. If someone reaches out their hand to say “nice to meet you,” you would reach back out. The trick for me is to manage my twitter followers into lists and columns.

I have long talked about one of the best way to expand your followers is by paying some small amount of social equity to others. Share their content, follow them, and one of the best ways is just to follow your followers back.

So here is what I do. I create twitter lists of different groups of people and then add them as columns on tweetdeck or hootsuite.

I hope that helps!

I enjoyed this article; thanks very much. I have a basic misunderstanding, I think, about following. I see so many people who follow thousands — tens of thousands — of others. How on earth do you ever get through that kind of content? I follow very few (100 some odd) of high-quality news and business thought leaders and can’t keep up. Further, I don’t “follow back” most of those who follow me (for this “worried about the tonnage” reason) and after a few days they unfollow me, probably because a program has told them I did not do so, I imagine. How do I expand my circle, make my world bigger, not smaller, but keep it manageable? Is there a way to have a main feed that I always see of my A-listers and then have others file away into a “for later” file? I’ve read the help section on Twitter Lists and it doesn’t say much. Is that the answer? Sorry to be such a newbie. I enjoy your posts very much.

Hi Erika,

I don’t engage with 1000s of people. But I engage with those who opportunistically reach out to me. Just as you have 1000s of contacts in your email system but only email with a sample of them.

You’re a great example. I’m engaging with you because you commented, but not everyone that reads the article.

I hope that helps!

Thanks!

Thanks Stephanie! I really appreciate it!

Thanks Rickey! Please do share.

Thanks Nick, I had some Twitter disagreement on this but I’m with you. Not every tweet needs a hashtag!