Twitter Tutorial Part 3 - Find people to follow that can help you and your business

TWITTER TUTORIAL 101  - Part 3

Quick, find somebody to follow... How to find people to follow that can help you and your business.

Finally, here is Part 3 of the Twitter Series. WOOT!

If you missed the STEP-by-STEP Part 1 here it is
The VERY Beginning click here
And Part 2 - What Next? Reply, Direct Message


PART 3
Look, listen and learn. Twitter can be extremely helpful for you and your business, so you want to know how to leverage its potential to the max. Start by following some people - not just any people.

1. Follow some top dogs.
I read in several places that you should follow the top dogs (or some of them anyway). See what they are doing,  how they are using Twitter and learn.

Finding Top Dogs of Twitter
One way is to visit twitterrati.alltop.com. The creator of alltop.com (among other things) is an amazing guy - Guy Kawasaki - BTW you can follow him on Twitter @guykawasaki. He has over 30,000 followers.

A few Top Dogs I follow:
@chrisbrogan (another brilliant guy - you should check out his blog too)
@problogger (Darren Rowse- I subscribe to his TwiTip which delivers daily super, super excellent Twitter Tips)
@leolaporte (professional journalist - also hosts and produces a hot (read - popular) technology show on the net Twit.tv - his blog is leoville.com)

2. Follow people who tweet about keywords that are of interest to you
Search Twitter for keywords. For this example I used the keyword "housing"
Once the results pop up you can then click on people (either their photo or their username link) that sound interesting and decide if you want to follow them.

If you are interested in finding out who talks about your city or community, type the name of your city to the search.

3. Follow people in your city/community
Bill Gassett recently posted about a great way to find people in your area. Twellowhood.
(How do they come up with these names for different Twitter things?)

Note. I follow all real estate professionals that I know of or find on twitter. I love the interaction, friendships, networking AND I want to see how they are using twitter.

Here is a link to a great post - slightly off topic, yet relevant.
"How I got gazillion blog subscribers and thousands of Twitter followers" by Mack Collier


I can't wait to write Part 4
Make the most out of your Twitter background
LOL - of course my custom twitter background is not finished yet...

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Kenna and Co. Real Estate Rita Burke. Dec 26th 2008. "Twitter Tutorial - Part 3: Finding People to follow "