Are you invisible on Twitter?
After you have joined Twitter, and posted a few updates, you should check to make sure that other people can find you on Twitter.
There are 2 key places where you must show up.
Go to http://search.twitter.com and enter from:yourusername to see if updates from you show up
Enter your user name to see if you show up in people search
I know from personal experience, that you may not be showing up on 1 or both of these. In which case, you will need to contact Crystal who is on the Twitter Support Team. Please do not message me, as there is nothing that I can do for you.
Here is what you should do:-
If you show up in one but not the other, please leave your user name and the link to the search results you DO appear in, like so:
@crystal doesn’t show up in Find People, shows up in Search: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Acrystal
@crystal doesn’t show up in Search, shows up in Find People: http://twitter.com/search/users?q=crystal&category=people&s…
Simply replace the url link with your own personal twitter user name that you searched on. So for me, it would be….
@crystal doesn’t show up in Find People, shows up in Search: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Amarkshaw
You must first post a few updates to your account in order to appear on http://search.twitter.com. If you haven’t posted any tweets, you will not appear on Twitter Search.
It is critical that you appear in both of these searches. If people cannot find you by user name, then effectively you are invisible to Twitter. This will mean that none of your posts will be searchable either.
You will therefore be missing out on an awful lot of people that may want to comment on your posts, or follow you.
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Good advice, as usual, Mark.
You can capture an RSS feed of many of the Twitter searches so you can keep track of your own tweets and whether others are mentioning your Twitter handle using something like Google Reader.
Robert