Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Twitter Productivity - Part 2

Yesterday, I shared David Perdew's five of the top ten ways to improve twitter productivity. Today, we continue with 6 through 10 from David Perdew, over at the My Twitter Toolbox Gold Membership site.

In the first part of this article, we discovered how you can improve your productivity with Twitter with some simple and basic options. Now, we will talk about more in-depth and advanced tools for improving productivity.

6. There are some helpful applications that will help you filter through the millions of people tweeting at any given time. If you do not siphon through these tweets, you could spend a great deal of time looking at messages that may be of no help. Make use of the filtering tools to find the right tweeters so that you can spend less time looking for them.

7. Keep an ongoing list of the most helpful users. Instead of following a great number of people and spending a long time looking through all of the tweets for one particular person, a short list of the best will help you get right to the point.

8. Use twitter as a helpful timer. Many people do not know this, but Twitter can serve as an alarm clock on sorts. You can simply send a direct message to a timer with an amount of time and a short message. When that time has passed, you will receive a tweet telling you your own message. This can be very helpful when you have busy days.

9. Know how to use the re-tweet. There are millions of people on Twitter, and they may not be following you. However, if you send a tweet and then ask for your followers to re-tweet, your message will reach thousands of people in a mere matter of seconds. The re-tweet can be powerful if you use it correctly.

10. Use alerts to your best advantage. When you need to know what people are tweeting about you or some of your customers, you can use applications to set up alerts that will key off of certain words. These alerts can provide you with valuable information and even lead you to new customers.

In the My Twitter Toolbox Gold Membership site, members have access to more than 235 Twitter applications organized by functional category. And the number keeps growing as Twitter does.

Hop over to see a video introduction of the top 20 Twitter tools.

Happy tweeting and let's connect on twitter!

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[Ryan Biddulph]

All very solid tips. Be heavy on the RTs as everybody loves someone who shares :)

[Mike Consol]

These are great tips, Denise. Just a cautionary note. You suggest that people tweet and tweet often. I follow (and used to follow) folks who tweet too often. Many people put more emphasis on volume than value.

[Malaysia SEO In Singapore]

I've been spending too much time on Twitter lately. Twitter is so addictive. Will try your 10 ways to improve my productivity.

[Denise Wakeman]

Great point about RTs. As long as what you're retweeting is relevant to your followers, it's a great way to connect with others and build stronger online relationships.

[Denise Wakeman]

There's definitely a delicate balance to too many tweets and not enough visibility. I've heard people say to post 20 tweets per day, but frankly, I'm not sure counting tweets is really relevant. Tweet what is right for you. Since twitter is totally opt-in, people will follow or not based on the value to provide and the relationships you build.