Vary Your Hashtags

Regardless of your field of interest, vary your hashtags on Twitter.

For those who don't use them often, they are words used in search preceded by the pound sign.  Thus tree becomes #tree;  racing becomes #racing.  Now, Twitter's search ability is so efficient that ANY word can be searched without the hashtag, but I like to search using both ways.  I will search with and without it, just to be thorough.

One of the most common is #Quote.   Any word can be hashtagged in a Tweet, sometimes people use it for emphasis since Twitter has no bold, or fonts.

The Search feature is located in the upper toolbar, is grey in color, and next to the blue bird.  You can create your own hashtag, but don't expect it to take off right away, you have to be consistent, over time, and plan to use it for the long run in order for an original word to take root.

GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE: 

Varying your hashtag will enlarge the way people find and follow you.  Let's just use the subject of writing for a moment, and examine some words that we might use in our Tweets:

#author
#poettues (writer chats)
#novels
#novelists
#100words
#poem
#vss (very, very short)
#poet
#poetry
#pubtip (publication tips)
#publishing
#scifi
#selfpublishing
#webfic (web fiction)
#weblit (web literature)
#wip (work in progress)
#writer
#writetip (writing advice)
#writing
#writingtips (writing advice)
#scriptchat
#blogchat
#amwriting

We can do this for any subject, idea or interest.   Vary those hashtags, not everybody thinks in the same way as we do.  Some people's processes are different, and we all arrive at thoughts differently.  AND don't forget to use plurals sometimes too!  Thus, #Coupon becomes #Coupons.

It is easy to stay in our comfort zone and think we have an audience, and really, nobody is paying attention to us at all. It's not till we experiment with something different that we determine there might be a better way.    Twitter is beautiful. It allows us to experiment with NEW ideas with every tweet, free,  and nobody is going to chastise us for trying.

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Lon Dunn writes on Evan Carmichael as a productivity and efficiency expert. He wrote and edited The Thesaurus News from 1995 to 2001 with a specialty in Telephony Infastructure Stocks. With over 20 years following the Mobile Industry, Lon helps Companies, Professionals and Organizations develop Mobile Marketing Strategies combined with Social Media Strategies to strategically target specific markets and demographics to rapidly increase revenues. His most recent book available on Amazon is “How to Use Twitter for Local Business” with Tips and Mobile Marketing Strategies that anyone can do themselves. You can download the free “Kindle App for PC to download the book to your Desktop available on the Kindle Site:

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