Twitter - StarfireHealth

[John Wright]

Well, I finally decided I'd try Twitter. So I've set up an account
"StarfireHealth". My intent is to tweet small nutritional tidbits,
but we'll see if anyone actually cares and if I'll put any real time
into it.

[Andrew P. Tasi]

Good morning John,

I set up and maintained the Twitter feed for my last employer, so I have a few tips I can share:
- Check out HootSuite for managing your tweets, shortening your URLs ( via ow.ly ), and analytics for ow.ly shortened URLs you post.
- HootSuite also has a "Hootlet" applet that I keep bookmarked on my bookmark bar. When I see a web page I want to tweet about, I click the bookmark shortcut, it pops up a dialog, automatically shortens the URL, and let's me author and send from that single dialog.
- "RT" stands for re-tweet. Use it when somebody else tweets something that you want to repeat to your followers.
- Use @[Twitter user name} to reply to them or quote somebody in a retweet.
- I just retweeted a post of yours as an example: RT @StarfireHealth Nutrients with impressive anti-aging research results: oxaloacetic acid, CoQ10, Resveratrol and Vitamin C.
- Although Twitter allows posts of 140 characters, try to keep yours to 121 characters or less. Why? So people can retweet you. "RT @StarfireHealth " = 19 characters.

For everybody else see: http://twitter.com/StarfireHealth

Regards,
Andrew P. Tasi