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Good advice for Twitter users

So you have made it onto Twitter and understand the basics, but want to know more?

Here are 25 tips to help enhance your Twitter presence:

Find people’s questions in your business sector and answer them
You cannot run Twitter successfully with an egg avatar – make your account your own
Don’t just follow random people, retweet and favourite
If you put yourself out there as a professional, you have to answer all messages you receive
Reply to everything except spam if you run your company’s Twitter account
Disconnect all Twitter accounts on your mobile when going to a party with alcohol!
If you are out of ideas of what to share, look at your competitors
Look at your profile and ask yourself if you would read and follow it
Leave some characters spaces on your tweet in case you are retweeted
Mention your Twitter handle to people whenever you can – e.g. @HarveyandHugo
Consider sending a thank you for every share and mention
Watch carefully for autocorrect
Don’t overuse #hashtags
Check #hashtags for popularity before tweeting
Participate in your industry’s Twitter chats
Check your facts and quotes before posting them
Twitter is visual so post relevant pictures and photos
Ask people about themselves and retweet answers
Subscribe to Twitter’s official blog to stay current and alert @Twitter
Join conversations and make sure it doesn’t look like you did it for promotional goals only
Twitter is social not promotional!
Tweet content that your audience will find relevant
Use abbreviations to keep it short and save some space
Your account shouldn’t look like a fake, enter your location and link it to your website
Don’t tweet about over shared news