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Twitter noise
1. How To: Creating a Twitter Account and
Weeding Out the Noise
January 27, 2012 | www.justengage.net/blog |
legalconnect@justengage.net
2. #twitternumbers
• One Billion Tweets a week
• Over 300 Million Users
• Twitter users are most active on Thursday and Friday
• Only 6% of lawyers are using Twitter for business development purposes!
• Most AmLaw 200 Firms Have Twitter Accounts – How they use them is what sets them
apart
• 55% of Twitter users access the platform via their mobile device
• 2.4 Million #SOPA-related Tweets (Stop Online Piracy Act)
4. Step 1- Sign Up
• Go to http://twitter.com
• Fill in your name, email and password and click sign-up
5. Step 2 – Create a Username
• Use your own name if
possible
• If you are using it on
behalf of your firm, use
your firms name
• This will be your Twitter
URL i.e.
http://www.twitter.com
/samtaracollier
Noah Kravitz Case @PhoneDog_Noah and @noahkravitz
6. Step 3 – Optimize Your Profile
An optimized Twitter profile aka Twitter Bio: includes:
a professional picture (something you’re mother-in-
law would approve of), a client-centric summary, your
location and the appropriate website URL.
17. Allow Twitter to search your email, and follow the online instructions
18. Hashtags are community-
driven tags. They can be
used to track subjects
you’re interested in and
filter out the noise. There
are many popular hashtags
in the legal industry!
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22. Step 5 – Start Tweeting
with Pizazz!
• Educate your Followers
rather than promote
• Don’t be SELF
PROMTIONAL
• Tweet links back to 3rd
party sites, blog
• Think 80/20
23. Target Market Twitter Tips
1. Add your Twitter account info to
LinkedIn, website
bio, blog, Facebook, everywhere!
2. Consider adding your Twitter account
to your Business Cards, Letterhead
ex:
twitter.com/legalerswelcome
twitter.com/samtaracollier
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Key takeaways to boost your Twitter CTR:Write tweets between 120-130 characters in lengthPlace links about 25% into the tweetTweet at a slower paceChoose the right words and phrasesUse action words (more verbs, fewer nouns)Tweet on the weekendsTweet later in the dayUse Paper.li accounthttp://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/get-more-clicks-twitter_b17976