Quick Tip

ILLUMINATION First Activity Invite: Adding and Using Twitter

Sharing important marketing advice for your success, in bite-sized pieces.

For many writers, this information will be old news but for a writer who has just joined Medium and is eager to get started these Quick Tips might help you on your way to success.

Let’s focus on the easy stuff

Dr Mehmet Yildiz’s first content marketing strategy from March 18th 2020 was for us to pick the low hanging fruit. It still applies now.

Configuring your Medium account to connect your social media accounts to is a good first step to showing off your latest creation. It also makes it very easy for others to share your work.

Do your articles have the black Twitter Bird, the Linked In in and the FaceBook f like the ones at the top of this article?

Yes, I recommend you keep reading just to make sure you haven’t missed any additional tips for improving your chances of success.

No? You haven’t connected your accounts.

Writers can add social media connections in their profiles. This will enable the readers to click on the social media links on writers’ articles and share them. This article provides you with the necessary steps for adding Twitter to your Medium profile. ~Dr Mehmet Yildiz

Click on the link in the quote above to find out exactly how to add your Twitter account to your Medium account.

You can subscribe to the Twitter list that the Dr created for Medium Writers by clicking on this link. When you’ve subscribed to the list, you can see the Tweets, mainly for Medium posts and from the ILLUMINATION members list.

Quick tip

One simple tip, on Twitter and Facebook, hashtags (#) are very important to access relevant content easily. Therefore, I’d suggest you use the #illumination in your tweets, Facebook, and LinkedIn posts to create further visibility and accessibility to our content in the cyberspace. ~Dr Mehmet Yildiz

Other hashtags and @s to use are:

@medium #medium @illum_official

@medium @illum_official #illumination #RT

#illumination #writers @medium #WritingCommunity

Plus, I am reliably informed by Kevin Buddaeus, we can also use #s with words that best say something about your or someone else’s article.

I’m still learning about Tweeting (and finding one or two words that best describe an article) so I use @medium #medium @illum_official for quotes from other people’s articles.

To quote a phrase or sentence in someone else’s article highlight it, click on the bird that appears in the black rectangle. You’ll go to Twitter. This is the quickest way to share what you enjoy on Twitter.

Then when I go on Twitter later in the day I’ll Retweet the same or other people’s Tweets with @medium @illum_official #illumination #RT.

Other people use only two @medium @illum_official.

Casey Botticello uses as many as he can.

After you’ve connected to Twitter, you can connect your Facebook and Linked In accounts too!

If you’d like to go one step further, you can automate your article Tweeting by following Kevin’s IFTTT instructions. I did and now I don’t have to remember to Tweet my finished articles they just magically appear on Twitter.

Tomorrow’s activity will be Activity 2

30-day Quality Challenge for ILLUMINATION Writers and Editors

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