#Gratitude Matters

If you want to maintain a healthy and flourishing Twitter account you’re going to have to make sure to let people know they are being noticed and that you appreciate their contribution.

Twitter is a two-way street, and the more you interact with others, the more trust you build, the greater the chance you will get mentioned and the greater the chance your tweets will be retweeted, ways to get noticed by potential followers.

The simplest way of doing this is just by Retweeting somebody’s message, amplifying it, and by implication, promoting whoever posted it. A Retweet is an endorsement of sorts, that you value this person’s tweets, whether or not you agree with their views, and that they’ve made an impression.

Likewise, if someone has Retweeted something of yours, you might want to thank them, especially if they’ve Retweeted multiple messages, or you recognize them, and already have started to build up a trust.

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Managing all your Twitter friends can be a real chore, if you let it get out of hand.

One great way of keeping track of things on Twitter is by organizing your friends by category and placing them into lists. Perhaps it’s best to think of a list as a ‘grouping’ or ‘group.’

The great thing about lists is that you don’t have to follow someone to put them in a list. This means you can keep track of all the people too prolific, or too specific, for your home feed.

To create a twitter list just open the drop-box on the right sidebar, and click “create new list.” Give the lists a name and select if the list will be public or private.

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