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Though creating the social account isn't the hard part, it is often far more difficult to get the news out about those pages. But what better way than to advertise it on the main page with a Facebook or Twitter widget? While Fandom doesn't support Twitter widgets, adding a Twitter timeline to a page on your wiki is pretty simple. Just follow these steps:. Of course, you may wish to tweak the layout and contents: we support many of the parameters listed in Twitter's documentation. For example, if you wanted to set the " height " as " " pixels , you would write:.

Warning: If no theme is set, the theme in FandomDesktop will adapt to either dark mode or light mode — whatever a user happens to be viewing — but if a theme is set, then it will persist regardless of mode. For better mode-compatibility, it may be wise to not set a theme at all. With the following, you can include Facebook widgets anywhere on your site!

This allows users to embed Facebook videos in articles. Find the man bites dog story. Search the web voraciously for a nugget you can spin into a good tweet.

Guy Kawasaki, who has over , followers, goes as far as paying employees to find buzzworthy stories for him to tweet. Post multimedia. Switching things up with pictures, videos and even sound clips here and there can make your posts more fun to follow.

Tweet often, at the right times of day. Nobody wants to follow someone who never tweets, therefore it's important to remain consistently active on twitter. You should have a minimum of one post per day and ideally two posts per day to maximize your visibility in the Twitterverse.

It's also important that you post your tweets at a time of day or night when the most people are active. No one will see your tweet or have the opportunity to follow you if you're always posting when they're asleep. The best times to tweet are before people go to work in the morning pre-9am and after they finish in the evening around 6pm. Make sure to take your time zone into account though.

Most Twitter users live in the US, so you will need to tailor your tweeting times to either East coast or West coast schedules. On the other hand, it's important not to inundate your existing followers with too many tweets, as this can fill up their feed and come across as spammy, which might cause them to unfollow you.

Use hashtags. Using hashtags is a great way to connect to people with similar interests and to increase the visibility of your tweets. Add hashtags to your tweets and also create tweets based on hashtags that are popular on Twitter at the time you can see these as "trends" on the left-hand side of your Twitter home page.

This will maximize your tweet's exposure. However, like everything on Twitter, hashtags should be used in moderation. Just pick one or two relevant or amusing hashtags which add to the quality of your tweet. Don't just add hashtags onto words that appeared in the rest of your tweet, or include them just for the sake of it. It might seem counter-intuitive to do this when you're focused on gaining followers, but it's a good practice because people who notice that you didn't follow them back might unfollow you.

Like other social media sites, Twitter is a "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" type of environment. Also, when you follow back, some people might respond to you publicly, which will give you some added exposure to their followers. If you're worried that you won't be able to keep up with that many people, you're right.

Once you're following over people, it'll be pretty much impossible to read all their updates. Method 2. Direct people to your Twitter account. You can direct more people to your Twitter account by putting "Follow me on Twitter" links on your blog, e-mail, other social networking outlets, and across the web.

That way, people who are already interested in what you're doing can easily find your Twitter Profile and follow you. Using graphics, such as a button or counter can also be more effective at catching attention and getting you more followers.

Try to get celebrities or famous people to follow you on Twitter. That will increase the chance that they will tweet at you or retweet one of your tweets, increasing the visibility of your Twitter account.

You can get a celebrity's attention on Twitter by sending them an message. An message is a direct message which you can send to anyone, whether you're following them or not. Choose a celebrity or at least someone with a ton of followers to send an message to. This message will appear on your profile page, so anyone who comes to scope you out will see who you've tweeted.

If you're really lucky, the celebrity will reply to your message, retweet it, or maybe even follow you back. This will make your tweet visible to thousands or even millions of people, and undoubtedly gain you followers.

Although this doesn't happen that often, it's worth sending a direct message or two everyday on the off-chance that it's gets retweeted. Remember, the funnier or more original the tweet is, the better the odds of the celebrity paying attention to it! Follow people with similar interests, then follow their followers.

This sounds kind of complicated, but it's really not. Just look for users with similar interests to your own, but who have way more followers. Then all you need to do is follow that user and their followers. For example, if you're a tarot fanatic, find another tarot fanatic who has many followers, then follow those followers. If it's clear from your bio and your tweets that you're a tarot enthusiast, they're more likely to follow you.

Be cautious though; following too many people may draw potential followers away. Being retweeted pushes your exposure to the edges of your Twitter network. Simply adding "Please retweet" or "Please RT" to the end of some of your posts here and there not all the time can remind your followers that you want them to spread the word for you. Occasionally posting a link to an article on How to Retweet will also help your followers help you. Repeat your most popular tweets.

Do a search for your Twitter name and observe which of your updates get the most replies and retweets. Then repeat those updates a few times roughly hours apart. You'll reach more people this way because you're more likely to catch the attention of people who missed your updates the first time around. People "tune in" to Twitter at various times during the day and night. If you get complaints about repeated tweets, you might want to ease off a little or just delete the complainers!

Method 3. Regularly unfollow people who haven't followed you back. This is especially important to avoid follow limits. The first limit you'll probably hit is when you've followed 2, people. You won't be able to follow any more until you have 2, followers. When this happens, you'll need to "clean-up" your list by unfollowing people who haven't followed you back. Aim to unfollow people who don't post that often, or whose tweets you aren't really interested in.

Then you won't feel like you're missing out. However, as the list of people you're following grows, it will become more and more time-consuming to go through it and filter out the non-followers. Luckily, there are services like Twidium and FriendorFollow which can clean up your list for you.

If you want to create a poll to which your Twitter followers can respond, do the following: Click Tweet in the upper-right side of the page. Add your question to the tweet box's main text box. Click the bar graph-shaped "Poll" icon. Add poll choices in the "Choice 1" and "Choice 2" text fields.

You can add more choices by clicking the Add a choice link. Set a time limit by clicking 1 day and then selecting your preferred time limit. Method 2. Tap the Twitter app icon, which resembles a white bird on a light-blue background. Doing so opens your Twitter feed if you're logged in. If you aren't logged in, enter your Twitter username or email address and password before proceeding.

Tap the "Tweet" icon. It's a feather-shaped button that's in either the top-right corner of the screen iPhone or the bottom-right corner of the screen Android. Doing so brings up a tweet box and your on-screen keyboard. You can type up to characters' worth of text including spaces into the text box.

For example, typing in " banana" would add the "banana" hashtag to your tweet, allowing anyone who looks up the "banana" hashtag to potentially find your tweet. You can add photos, a video, or a GIF to your tweet: Photo or Video — Tap the mountain-shaped icon in the bottom-left corner of the tweet box, then select up to four photos or one video and tap Add or DONE. On Android, you'll have to add photos one at a time.

Tap Tweet. It's in the top-right corner of the screen. This will post the tweet to your profile. This button will say Tweet all if you're tweeting more than one post at once. If you want to create a poll to which your Twitter followers can respond, do the following: Tap the "Tweet" icon.

Enter your question in the tweet box's text box. Type your choice titles into the choice text boxes. Set a poll length by tapping the 1 day option and then selecting a preferred poll length. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Tweets can include one of the following: up to four photos, one GIF, or one video.

Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. If you have to go on a vacation or be out of office for a long period of time, you can schedule tweets using various tweet scheduling services.