Social Media 101: A Visual Steemit Lesson on Twitter engagement, the official @steemit account in the Crypto space, and who runs it. Steemit 101.

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I wrote an article the other night and shared it on the Twitter as I often do nowadays. I tagged the @steemit official account with it and they shared it a little later that night. I went to bed.

When I woke up the next day, it had garnered 29 RT overnight (retweets) and I gained more followers overnight than usual, on my posts, likely about 6-8 more than usual.

I enlarged this as a visual lesson so anyone not really using Twitter etc to share your posts can literally see the RT and likes and engagement this post garnered.

Many of us see posts on Twitter or on here, linking back to Steemit and twitter from this account or in general and here is some info about those people.

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Who runs the official @steemit Twitter account?

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Randy Hilarski ( @hilarski ) and his wife Anabel ( @AnaHilarski ) have been running this account for @steemit and the founders @ned and @dan @dantheman since the summer of 2016 when it (the twitter account) officially launched.

I was in touch a lot with Randy then, so I remember it well, I was a baby Steemer having joined in August.

Anabel and Randy are honestly online Social Media marketing wizards. I have learned a lot from them. They run a company called 200 Social that manages your branding and SM accounts if you do not have time to do it.

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I regularly receive messages from people asking about social media tips and frankly, I refer them back to Ana and Randy, and all their resources to look at, which are plentiful.

I refer people to specific blog posts by Ana and Randy and directly to their social media accounts, some of which I will list below so you can learn and follow them also. I will list the basic ones.... they really have a lot of them LOL.

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Ana and Randy are always saying, along with others, people are not using the social media sites enough to promote their content and using the links and backlinks properly or enough, to make a solid impact. I would have to agree.

In fact, I had another chat with Randy about this recently, knowing he had said similar things publicly on this again recently. Here is what he said:

"If more Steemit users learned how to Tweet we can really improve the amount of content indexed on Google and clicks from Twitter."

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My advice today:

• Get on Twitter if you are not -- Pick a great user name you will be happy with.

• I am https://twitter.com/BarryDutton on there

• Follow Randy and Ana on Steemit if you are not. Their account links for Steemit here are above.

• Follow their Twitter accounts if you are not:

• https://twitter.com/AnabellHilarski

• https://twitter.com/RandyHilarski

• https://twitter.com/200SocialMedia

• Follow the official Twitter account for Steemit - https://twitter.com/Steemit

• Use a link shortening service like https://app.bitly.com - and implement it into all your posts. I asked @thecryptofiend one day which one he used and I never looked back with this advice. He is smart and VERY helpful.

• On your next post, tag the @steemit account in your tweet. Use 3 or 4 great hashtags always in your tweets and other social media. Always.

• Take that tweet, click on it, paste that link BACK here into your Steemit post you made.

• Watch the Hilarski's posts, for tips and tricks, they put them out regularly.

• Ana does a lot of her work/posts in Spanish so if you are or know someone that needs things done in Spanish, she is the BEST person I know to help or learn from.

• GO THROUGH THEIR OLD BLOG POSTS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA TIPS! This is exactly where I learned things from and where I send people! The resources are there for us to use!

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- Here is a prime example from one of their informative blog posts from 3 months ago when they started putting out free tips and tricks for everyone to learn

- https://steemit.com/steemit/@hilarski/social-media-tip-1-from-usd200-social

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Do your best. We are not all gifted in the same areas of life or interests, but if you can work at the areas you need to a bit, you will be encouraged.

We are all in this together so we should support one another.

Thanks for reading. Hope this helps. That is why I do most of my posts, to try to inform and help people somehow.

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