Help allnurses reach its Twitter goal

I'm satisfied with my Facebook account. =)

I've been signed up for a long time but I never do it.


steph

Twitter is fun! If I can figure it out, anyone can. OK, Facebook and MySpace make my eyes glaze over, really interesting people on, too

Brian, not sure how it would work but one of the coolest ways to get lots of new followers is to have a challenge with someone else where the prize for the winner is a gift to a charity. Like Ashton Kutcher v. CNN. you can get there many ways(web page, RSS,blackberry,etc)

Twitter rocks! I am following and being followed by AN.

I have also joined the AllNurses.com fan club page at FB.
For those on FB and Twitter, you can now update your Twitter status through FB.

I'm an avid twitterer, but I'm not sure about following AlNurses if it's only going to be just links to articles; particularly since I log in to AllNurses regularly enough that I can see when new articles pop-up anyway.

Most people use twitter as a communication tool. Give a little, get a little. More personal, you know?

Are there any plans for AllNurses to use Twitter for human communicaion as opposed to broadcasting/advertizing new article posts?

I'd guarantee you'd get more followers if you did.

I joined, but I'll have to ask the kids to help me with this!

I love using Twitter and am there more than anywhere else in "cyberspace". I follow, and am followed by, numerous professionals with whom I have shared interests: OR nursing, health information technology, clinical informatics, nursing education, to name a few. Rarely do I spend time on Twitter than I don't learn something. Among the important things to learn, however, is when it's time to sign off and go outside for a while.

Feel free to follow me - I hope you find that what I converse about has value. Or, at the very least, will make you laugh! @Christina1973

I am proud to be an Allnurses Twitter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brian, here is what you do to build up a following on Twitter - I've written an ebook on this and I have more than 17,000 followers, so I know whereof I speak:

Sign in to Twitter. Find a leader in your field on Twitter - for instance, Emergiblog is on Twitter- and follow a few hundred of their followers. Many of them will follow you back. Wait a few days. Unfollow everyone NOT following you back. Why? Because they are taking up space, and you can only follow 2000 people until you get 2000 people following YOU back.

Repeat the process - follow a few hundred more people. The reason that you are seeking out leaders in your field, is that their followers are more likely to want to follow you back. Anyone following emergiblog, for instance, is likely to be a nurse or interested in nursing.

Then wait a few days and then unfollow everyone not following you back, again.

I'm not only saying to follow the people who follow Emergiblog - that's just an example.

Message me if you have any more questions, I'm happy to help.

Twitter is an AWESOME resource - I write press releases for a living, and I get almost all of my clients from there. (Former reporter looking to go into nursing.)

You don't have to give your cell phone number to Twitter. It's nice to see that everyone is at least giving things like Twitter a try. Good job Sue!

!Chris