Twursday Twitter Tips

Tonight I’m meant to be packing for a tour I am heading out on with Alabaster Box but I thought I would first chip in my latest ‘Thursday Twitter Tips’. If you didn’t catch my first weeks blog post please check out ‘Twursdays Twitter Tips for Beginners’.

Wordle – The above jumble of words is a ‘word cloud’ of this blog. It’s basically a jumble of words that is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, word content in your blog, on your twitter or on a given website. Words vary in size according to their use and are often hyperlinked to words or tags of the same association.

How can this be helpful? For me, it is a visual way to see what I’m babbling on about and I can work out if I’m actually tackling issues that have relevance to ‘Keywords’ I have associated with my blog. I am amused that even though, I am regularly blogging about Alabaster Box… they didn’t even make it into the cloud! Newsboys won hands down… which has me wondering if in this particular cloud generating site if the words are actually associated with traffic generation those keywords regularly get else where. Someone feel free to enlighten me. I have definitely mentioned Alabaster Box more then I have Newsboys on this blog. Using a second word cloud site ‘To Cloud’, Alabaster Box made a much bigger impression…phew!

Twitter pointer – if you are a newby to twitter one thing to remember is when you are chatting about or to someone you know who is on twitter, be sure to refer to their twitter name i.e @aussiejoy. This is really like that persons ‘personal’ tag and allows others following your conversation to get out there and meet (if you call it that!) them by following the link to their twitter page…which can lead them to your blog. Another important reason to have your URL mentioned in your twitter BIO.

Think that’s it from me this week. Must scaddle and pack! Let me know of any awesome sites you are coming across or regularly use. This is all such fascinating stuff and so cool to utilise!