Social Media Marketing: Twitter Handles
How to create a Twitter handle that gets attention and follows.
A few weeks ago, I discover this Twitter handle @HireMeImFunny. I thought that was a great Twitter handle.
Orli Matlow is a comedian and writer. As she notes in her Twitter profile: If there were a self-deprecation competition I'd probably lose.
I reviewed the last 30 to 40 tweets and retweets of hers. They were more political than funny. Sadly, if you are going to use a handle like @HireMeImFunny, you really need to be funny and also stay away from politics unless you can make that funny. She didn't. Alas.
But her idea for a Twitter handle is spot on.
Can you come up with a Twitter handle that sells what you do?
If you're a novelist, you could be @FamousNovelist (Gail Bolland has that handle but is not active) or @RomanceNovelist (she’s a romance novelist on Wattpad.com) or @RomanticTales (not active since 2015) or @FantasyStories (not active since 2009). Alas, someone already has @BuyMyNovel and he/she doesn't seem to be a novelist.
Perhaps you might be able to reach out to one of these people with a Twitter direct message and see if they will turn the @handle over to you.
Children's book author Suzanne Lintz Ives has taken this handle: @BuyMyBook. I wish I had thought of that sooner since she joined years after I joined Twitter.
Johnny Apples has the handle @IWriteSalesCopy. Yup, he writes sales letters, emails and web pages that SELL! Expert in growing (or acquiring!) highly responsive marketing lists. His Twitter profile is no longer active. Alas, he must not have been as good as he thought.
And here's another inactive Twitter profile that had an incredible handle but no activity: @ISellHomes. Wow! Some realtor should have gotten that @handle.
You Can Change Your Twitter Handle
Note: You can change your Twitter handle whenever you want and your Twitter URL. Of course, only if the Twitter handle and Twitter URL are not already owned by someone else.
For instance, I once had @BooksToEbooks but decided to change that to Book Marketing Tips at @BookMarketTips with the Twitter URL of https://twitter.com/BookMarketTips. I automatically tweet to that Twitter profile whenever I post an article at https://www.BookMarketingBestsellers.com.
