Help! I'm now on Twitter and...

[Allison]

I still don't "get" twitter and tweeting really, but our marketing team wants me to do this. So help me out by following me or giving me some twitter tips.

Start with the basics please.

http://twitter.com/PV_Alli

[cooldude7]

u follow people, post interesting things obviously free.,
and people will follow u, as simple as that.

[Allison]

Originally Posted by cooldude7

u follow people, post interesting things obviously free.,
and people will follow u, as simple as that.

Well, I'm a little beyond that basic, but thanks. What about when to do @ and why do @ someone? And some of the guys hear talk about cool mobile apps that go well with twitter?

[papill0n]

@ is so you can direct your tweet at someone specifically

[dyna mo]

twitter your open letter to charlie = winning

[Ravage]

Its all about the #tigerblood and #teamsheen right now

[Chris]

Well your twitter was just pretty useful to me - i did not know sxsw was having an adult talk this year. I may have to check it out.

[Vanilla DeVille]

Originally Posted by Allison

I still don't "get" twitter and tweeting really, but our marketing team wants me to do this. So help me out by following me or giving me some twitter tips.

Start with the basics please.

http://twitter.com/PV_Alli

I just followed you... here's mine: http://twitter.com/vanilladeville Hit me up via icq and I'll give you some pointers. It's super east tho.

[Allison]

Originally Posted by dyna mo

twitter your open letter to charlie = winning

maybe I can beat his record number of followers. Now that I have my own twitter account I am really impressed by his achievement.

[Jayvis]

You'll get the hang of it, it's pretty handy for networking... I'm following btw.

[JosephFM]

Use related hashtags in your post but not too many.

[alexchechs]

follow my account at http://twitter.com/redstr718

[Allison]

Originally Posted by JosephFM

Use related hashtags in your post but not too many.

what's an example of that?

[jimmy-3-way]

Originally Posted by Allison

I still don't "get" twitter and tweeting really, but our marketing team wants me to do this. So help me out by following me or giving me some twitter tips.

Start with the basics please.

http://twitter.com/PV_Alli

You can follow me @pimpinainteasy

[Allison]

Originally Posted by alexchechs

follow my account at http://twitter.com/redstr718

following, you gonna teach me some tricks?

[FlexxAeon]

perfect i was looking for something 'mobile related' to follow with my new twitter account

[Roald]

Following you, let me get you some followers. 1 sec

edit: done, hope it helps ;)

[Topbuxom Lea]

Originally Posted by Vanilla DeVille

I just followed you... here's mine: http://twitter.com/vanilladeville Hit me up via icq and I'll give you some pointers. It's super east tho.

ooohhh pointers from YOU? Daaahhhling...

[Allison]

Originally Posted by Vanilla DeVille

I just followed you... here's mine: http://twitter.com/vanilladeville Hit me up via icq and I'll give you some pointers. It's super east tho.

perfect, I'll hit you up next week. Too much multi-tasking at the moment. Supervising our live show, GFY posting, and twittering.

[TheDoc]

Oh good lord...

Think of Twitter like ICQ/IM... If you found or had a funny video, pic, topic, news article, ect shared with you or you would share it with someone in the office, then share it with Twitter.

Then if you use a chat/im client to help you, other than twitter directly, you can have conversions with people, like here on gfy... but in a 140 chars or less, which often ends up going to email if it's anything good.

Someone posts a topic/article, you rt or reply to them, they reply to you, others reply, you can add a #hastag so everyone talking can join in, if they want.

I've gotten some pretty crazy convo's going on Twitter before, about all types of topics. I never see my main chat, spammers, ect.. but I've talked with PGA pros, celebs, ceo's of big corps, down to just normal people like us trying to make a dime.

It's a different kind of social, more disconnected and responding back a day or two later about a topic you were talking on, isn't uncommon, so topics can fire back up in an instant.

[DangerX !!!]

I can provide you with unlimited followers, thousands in a matter of day, 99% humans, but... nothing is for free in this bad world... what can you give me in return for that? I'm open for any ideas.

[Allison]

Thanks Doc. Can I see an example of this? Someone posts a topic/article, you rt or reply to them, they reply to you, others reply, you can add a #hastag so everyone talking can join in, if they want.

[Allison]

Downloading TweetDeck now per a staff recommendation. Let's see how this works.

[jimmy-3-way]

Originally Posted by Allison

Downloading TweetDeck now per a staff recommendation. Let's see how this works.

If you didn't have it why is your first and fourth Tweet from Tweetdeck?

[TheDoc]

Originally Posted by Allison

Thanks Doc. Can I see an example of this? Someone posts a topic/article, you rt or reply to them, they reply to you, others reply, you can add a #hastag so everyone talking can join in, if they want.

Done...

[Topbuxom Lea]

Originally Posted by Allison

Downloading TweetDeck now per a staff recommendation. Let's see how this works.

Easy peasy

[dyna mo]

1. share useful content every day
2. Participate in conversations about your brand
3. Link to your Twitter profile from your contact page
4. Reuse and repurpose testimonials found on Twitter
5. Post coupons or special deals exclusively on Twitter (1 of every 10 tweets max)

[Joxxy]

It's Follow Friday! Make a list of @'s you want people to follow.

[dyna mo]

search twitter daily using search terms pertinent to your goals and reply with useful, non-selling, information to tweets

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%22pink+visual%22

[Allison]

Originally Posted by dyna mo

1. share useful content every day
2. Participate in conversations about your brand
3. Link to your Twitter profile from your contact page
4. Reuse and repurpose testimonials found on Twitter
5. Post coupons or special deals exclusively on Twitter (1 of every 10 tweets max)

Good ideas. I just added it to my GFY sig, but it doesn't look right. What's the standard "Follow Me" one liner that looks normal?

[dyna mo]

www.twitter.com/@yourname

[fitzmulti]

Originally Posted by Allison

Good ideas. I just added it to my GFY sig, but it doesn't look right. What's the standard "Follow Me" one liner that looks normal?

@PV_Alli would be it! Most twitter folks would get that! ;-)

[Dirty Minds]

I am not too new to twitter but I am starting to tweet more often.... how can i get loads of followers??? any suggestions...

[fitzmulti]

Originally Posted by Dirty Minds

I am not too new to twitter but I am starting to tweet more often.... how can i get loads of followers??? any suggestions...

;-)
Telling us your twitter name could be a good start, and then it flows along from there! ;-)

[Dirty Minds]

Originally Posted by fitzmulti

;-)
Telling us your twitter name could be a good start, and then it flows along from there! ;-)

@VH1cameronadams... can you hook a sister up... lol

[Allison]

Okay, about to head home so I guess I need to download the twitter app on my iphone... Buying my first Mac for my home tomorrow. Exciting!

[JosephFM]

Originally Posted by Allison

what's an example of that?

Say you are twitting about software for example, after your twit place a hashtag like so: #software #scripts

Or you can twit like this for example:

A new update for our #software is available right now, go #download it now!

Hashtags are like keywords you want to Target in the Twitter search engine.

They also help you get followers that are interested in your product or service.

[Chosen]

Originally Posted by dyna mo

twitter your open letter to charlie = winning

[Allison]

Originally Posted by Chosen

I think we did that already, but he's special and he's dine pretending he's not, so he may not be able to read.

[HDADULT]

Tweet Tweet!

http://www.twitter.com/hdadult

[Caligari]

the thing is, you're going to want to automate at least one twitter acct with rss feeds.
so if you take your feeds and use twitterfeeds.com for instance you can set the feeds to update for x hours etc
then use your official twitter account for real posts and cross link the two. its quite legit, one is with humans setting up networks with others and one is posting the latest galleries/videos which are being released for people to check out.
in twitterfeed i also put a post name on the feed so its always "blah blah blah porn videos" or whatever.
i dont use scripts to artificially inflate my followers, that shit might work but now i have thousands of followers who are mostly real which is obviously better.

with the automated ones there is always a slim chance of being banned, but twitter is pretty lenient...at least for now.

fuck i am rambling

oh yeah its a good idea to customize your twitter page, i've found making it look snappy with a good background draws more followers.

[DWB]

Nothing worse than porn people spamming their galleries on twitter.

[Caligari]

Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy

Nothing worse than porn people spamming their galleries on twitter.

there should be a law...

...because otherwise Twitter is so relevant. I visit often just to see who took their dog to the park and picked up the poop and wished other people did the same.

Really I think twitter, facebook etc represent a great decline in the web. It succeeds largely in fueling people's lame egos so they can all feel very important about living an utterly boring, meaningless life.

yes there are positive aspects, friends who forgot how much they really hated each other reconnect after years and slowly discover the reason they never kept in touch. i think thats brilliant because its real.

if you want to boil it down, everyone is spamming something on twitter and facebook whether its porn or an hour by hour account of their pre-determined lives.

[DateDoc]

If you have not a clue about what to tweet find your 5 largest competitors and see what they are doing with twitter and improve on their efforts.

[DWB]

Originally Posted by Caligari

there should be a law...

...because otherwise Twitter is so relevant. I visit often just to see who took their dog to the park and picked up the poop and wished other people did the same.

Really I think twitter, facebook etc represent a great decline in the web. It succeeds largely in fueling people's lame egos so they can all feel very important about living an utterly boring, meaningless life.

yes there are positive aspects, friends who forgot how much they really hated each other reconnect after years and slowly discover the reason they never kept in touch. i think thats brilliant because its real.

Yes, there should be a law.

My non adult twitter account (the one I always use) is PACKED full of reporters from every news network around the world. I get news directly from them usually hours before it breaks on online or on TV. For this, twitter rocks.

Lots of good quotes, silly facts and inspirational bits on there too.

[Caligari]

Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy

Yes, there should be a law.

My non adult twitter account (the one I always use) is PACKED full of reporters from every news network around the world. I get news directly from them usually hours before it breaks on online or on TV. For this, twitter rocks.

Lots of good quotes, silly facts and inspirational bits on there too.

you're right there are upsides to the social networks, but i would argue that a huge amount of it is entertainment related, whether its popular news or people yaking about charlie sheen etc, so imo porn is every bit as valid and is absolutely sought after on these networks, regardless of being automated or not people want to know about the latest adult stuff so i see nothing wrong with it.

[Allison]

Originally Posted by DateDoc

If you have not a clue about what to tweet find your 5 largest competitors and see what they are doing with twitter and improve on their efforts.

well one difference is that this isn't the company Twitter. Fortunately, our marketing team is better than me at tweets, but this is more for me for work and some personal touches.

[grumpy]

Originally Posted by Vanilla DeVille

I just followed you... here's mine: http://twitter.com/vanilladeville Hit me up via icq and I'll give you some pointers. It's super east tho.

just followed you, twitter.com/datecafe

[CaptainHowdy]

After a brain seizure you'll understand perfectly ...

[dyna mo]

Originally Posted by Allison

our marketing team is better than me at tweets,

in all honesty, i would work to reverse this. as the figurehead of pv, you are in a unique spot to create some serious revenue generation via your tweets. blow your marketing team away by running with this!


an inside peak at pv/porn + special offers = happy NEW customers

easy to track too, set-up some coupons/gateways/etc. and see for yourself.

in my mind, you tweeting like this is similar to if a larry flynt did the same, obviously flynt is in a league of his own, nevertheless, the strategy would work well for you too.