I cannot seem to get into Facebook although I know I must embrace  it.

I love Twitter. It’s quick, it’s resourceful and it’s simple. I use the search engine a lot. I don’t follow just for numbers. I never did get that. Miraculously, I have 4600+ followers without following all back and I do follow several who do not follow me back either. I’m okay with that!

I tweet a lot. I don’t tweet every time I have to pee or to tell everyone when I go to the store for milk! I try to keep it light-hearted with inspirational and powerful quotes, design resources, photography and other pretty things like photography. If you know me, you know that I am huge on personal referrals. If a service or product rocks, I tweet about it!

I’ve started a new daily project called #dailyponder where I tweet a question each morning at 7:27 EST. You’d be surprised how much you learn about yourself when you ponder something in the form of a question up there in that little mind of yours!

Here’s a list of the apps I’m using right now with Twitter:

• Hootsuite for iPhone
• Tweetdeck on my PC and laptop
• Twunfollow
• Timely.is to schedule tweets
• bit.ly for link shortening

What about YOU? Where are you at with Twitter and what are your favorite Twitter apps? Please comment below and share your faves! Oh, and follow me if my tweets are to your liking!

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If you use a service that tells you when people follow or leave you, you may notice some followers leaving you right after they start following you. Twitter calls this Follow Churn. I see it happening more and more these days.

Twitter’s explanation of this is as follows:

What is aggressive follow churn?

If you decide to follow someone and then change your mind later, that’s fine! You can just visit the person’s profile page and then un-follow them. Aggressive follow churn is when an account repeatedly follows and un-follows large numbers of users. This may be done to get lots of people to notice them, to circumvent a Twitter limit, or to change their follower-to-following ratio.

These behaviors negatively impact the Twitter experience for other users, are common spam tactics, and may lead to account suspension.

There are a couple ways to deal with this although there really isn’t an iron-clad solution… yet. One way is to block the person and the other is to report them to Twitter as spam. Also, follow Twitter’s @spam account.

Caution!

Not every user who follows you and leaves soon after wards is a bad guy (or girl!). For instance, if I follow someone and then they tweet about something vulgar or hateful, etc., I unfollow them as quick as you can say “goodbye!” That doesn’t make me guilty of follow churn. So use caution in using the “block” and “report” links!

Recommended Twitter Follower Management Tools

I use these sites although there are several others too. Yes, they are used by twitter spammers but also used by every day people like you and I!

What Twitter management tools work for you? Add your recommendations in the comments area below.

• TwUnfollow is a free service that notifies you about Twitter followers that are not following you any longer. (Follow them on Twitter).

• Refollow is not a free service anymore. It helps you discover, manage, and protect your Twitter social circle. (Follow them on Twitter).

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So what is it that Google looks for when determining a website’s rank in its search engine? One of my favorite designers, Gopal Raju, wrote a great article on this topic. It has some great tips on improving your Twitter profile rank.

Here’s a great little tool to check a website’s page ranking in Google. You can also use this to check a Twitter profile’s page ranking.

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What a fun day! It all started when I did some research on popular blog topic ideas. One being to blog 100 random facts about yourself. I announced it on Twitter and a Twitter friend of mine, Corina in Australia, hopped on board. We challenged one another to it! I’ve posted mine here on my website!

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Feel free to snag this graphic that I created for this blog post:

Did you know that the most successful people on Twitter send 23 tweets a day? (Thanks for this info, Jay @ Ten Golden Rules).

23 tweets a day isn’t actually that difficult if you have a passion for something that you like to talk about. I love, love, love quotes that are positive and inspiring. I could (and do!) tweet them every day! As of today, I have 2,085 followers and have sent out 2.063 tweets. I am a little junior compared to many but with new followers each day and plans to tweet more, I think I need to step it up and get my tweets more organized. I’m using Tweet Spinner and it is awesome.

I tried out a few other twitter management tools but they just didn’t provide the efficiency I was after. I want to schedule my tweets and not have to do one tweet at a time. I want to provide quality tweets to my followers and I want to make the most of my twitter time. I definitely like Tweet Spinner for its many features. It offers a lot for free and even more in its premium packages. I highly recommend this Twitter management tool.

Visit Tweet Spinner

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