Cross-Post: Twitter "secrets" aren't really "secrets"

In other words, there is no "secret" to Twitter. Like any other communication medium, the 'key' to success in that medium is hard work coupled with a more sophisticated understanding of that medium.

Nonetheless, MediaBistro put together their top 5 Twitter secrets list:

Understand Twitter search

Now that you’ve set up your dashboard, bookmark this link immediately: search.twitter.com/advanced.

This is Twitter’s own advanced search tool, and it is absolutely essential if you want to get into the conversation happening right now in your niche.

It is similar to Google’s advanced search, in that you can define keywords to include, exclude and target exact phrases. But because Twitter is a social information network, its search includes social queries too: you can search tweets from, to, or referencing a particular person, tweets from a particular location, or tweets with only a negative sentiment.

Twitter search is a powerful way to find out exactly what people are saying within your niche right now. For instance, you could search for “dogs” and “grooming” and “hair cut” in only your state to see if there are any potential clients who might need your services. Or you can use it to discover the most popular hashtags in your niche, the Twitter thought leaders, and more.

That one is probably the only one worth mentioning as the others are common sense. The whole point to Twitter, in our opinion, is that it is far and away the best, most up-to-the-minute information portal on the web today. 

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