There are 3 main locations you can tell people a little about yourself on Twitter : You can add some info to your Twitter Background, add a descriptive bio and last but not least, you can link to a website.

Linking to my website is not something I really spent much time thinking about, I simply linked to my personal blog. However, a few days ago I decided to make it a bit more personal for Twitter users.

I created a welcome page for Twitter Users on my blog and linked to it from my Twitter account. This page is not linked to on the blog itself so only Twitter users will see it (and of course, you guys too!).

In the welcome post I talk about what users can expect me to talk about on Twitter. And after reading Jonathan Baileys post last week about why people will not follow you, I was inspired to add this to my welcome page too and tell users which type of Twitter users I will not follow back. I think this is a smart thing to do as it tells users why you might not follow them back so they are less likely to take it personally.

You can of course take this further. After following Kristen Nicole I was sent an automatic message saying “Saw u added me. Thx! What are u workin on? Made a welcome greeting for you!”.

Here is the welcome greeting she sends to her new followers :

Not only is a video a great way to welcome new followers, it should also go a long way to making you seem more real and not just some random person publishing their thoughts through Twitter.

I encourage you to create a information page about yourself and then link to it via Twitter. I’m sure it will convince a few people to start following you. Remember, you don’t need to own a website to do this. There are countless free blogging solutions and social media sites which allow you to open up your own space and publish some information about yourself

Thanks,
Kevin

* p.s. you can view my welcome page here

Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today wrote a great post the other day on BloggingTips entitled ‘5 Reasons They May Not Follow on Twitter‘.

In the article Jonathan sums up up pretty much every reason why I don’t always follow someone back. Here are the 5 reasons :

1. No Icon
2. No Updates
3. The Numbers (i.e. Are you following 1000 people but only have 50 followers and 3 updates? )
4. Every Tweet is a Link
5. No @replies

What stops you from following someone back?

To read the full article, please click on the link below

Link : 5 Reasons They May Not Follow on Twitter

Yesterday I spoke about Twitter Friends , a site which provides some cool stats about your account in graph form. Today I want to show you all a similar site, called TweetStats.

Whereas Twitter Friends showed you how you connected with and how often, TweetStats concentrates mainly on when you tweet and how often.

The first graph it produces is called ‘Your Tweet Timeline’. As you can see, although I signed up to Twitter a year ago, it’s only recently that I have started using it actively.

The second graph is called ‘Your Tweet Density’. You can pretty much see when I go to bed and when I start working in the morning afternoon.

The graphs below show you what days I tweet and the average number of tweets at certain times of the day.

The last graphs show you who I have replied to the most and what interface I have used to do my tweets.

Overview

TweetStats is just a basic stats site but I’m a big fan of it as it’s simple to use and tells you the tweeting habits of anyone. If anyone has a lot of time on their hands they could use it to check the stats of celebrities and figure out who is using a ghost twitterer!

Link : TweetStats