I have talked a lot about building a strong Twitter community many times, I even wrote Twitter Dummy Guide around this concept.
If you follow me @JohnAguiar you have seen or will see that I do my best to do that everyday. I have built a strong twitter community that I am happy with, my followers are supportive and responsive and just awesome 
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But now that Google is ranking tweets in real time search, building a strong twitter community has never been more important.
Before you start getting ranked, make sure you get your twitter page set up right and SEO ready!
Google now puts weight into the amount of followers you have and more importantly…
the quality of those followers that will get your tweets ranked higher.
They look at it the same as sites linking together, it’s not so much about the amount but more about the quality of the site the link comes from.
Google ranks tweets by followers to an extent, but it’s not just about how many followers you get. It’s about how reputable those followers are.
Singhal likens the system to the well-known Google system of link popularity. Getting good links from reputable sources helps your content in Google, so having followers with that same kind of authority theoretically helps your tweets rank in Google’s real-time search.
“One user following another in social media is analogous to one page linking to another on the Web. Both are a form of recommendation,” Singhal says. “As high-quality pages link to another page on the Web, the quality of the linked-to page goes up. Likewise, in social media, as established users follow another user, the quality of the followed user goes up as well.”
There are many reasons that you should be focusing on growing and engaging with your twitter community, this is just another great reason.
Tweets will be ranked real time and that will have an immediate effect in your blog or business.
Twitter in real time search is changing why and how important twitter is in your business, now you have an added benefit to start engaging with your followers more.
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April 7th, 2010 at 6:43 am
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April 7th, 2010 at 7:32 am
< strong>Google Says – A Strong Twitter Community Will Get Your Tweets Ranked On First Page…
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April 8th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
John Paul, Thanks for sharing your insight. I found some nice tidbits which I'll keep in mind as I grow my twitter community.
April 8th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Thanks for sharing this, I wasn't aware that it was so important.
April 9th, 2010 at 6:13 am
Mathew, TY for the comment. Yea now it is very important since Google will be ranking tweets. Good things is you can now be ranked on first page for your blog and your tweets, just another way to get yourself on first page.
April 9th, 2010 at 6:14 am
Ryan, TY for the comment man.. I'm glad the post helped you out.
April 9th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Jeez, I have never considered Twitter in this light, it puts up a total different dimension.
I might just burn myself completely into it – after all, I want to make a splash with my blog.
April 9th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Dorian TY for the comment. Yea twitter and Facebook in search is big, now you can have your blog and tweets rankign on first page for same keyword.
April 11th, 2010 at 11:30 am
Hi John Paul,
Thanks for the post. It gave me a kick to review the followers I have and to work on the ones that I want.
Adrian
April 11th, 2010 at 11:41 am
Hey Adrian, TY for the comment..Appreciate that.
Also glad you like the post.. Yea never to late to change your twitter mindset around
April 13th, 2010 at 12:50 am
Interesting post – thank you! I think a lot depends on how they determine the quality of each account too. Basing it on “human” logic, I would guess lots of original tweets (i.e. not quotes and not RT's all the time), as well as the level of interaction.
April 13th, 2010 at 1:19 am
Rightly said, we should consider the social media especially twitter as a powerful biz tool. Now days, i cant see anybody without a twitter account, till another twitter or something like to compete twitter rule the world..same time i guess google will try to get twitter in their hood…lets see..
April 13th, 2010 at 5:59 am
Hi Anne, and TY for the comment
Yes they go by the size of your followers and the quality of those followers and how engaging you are with your twitter followers. That's why building a strong community is very important now.
April 13th, 2010 at 6:07 am
Vijith, TY for the comment. I agree 100% everyone needs a Twitter account, now that tweets are gettign indexed, this is even more reason tog et one.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Interesting John. This will give twitter more power in front of the search engine. Thanks.
April 15th, 2010 at 10:05 am
TY for the comment Latief. Yes doing this will def give you more power in search results. Nice way to use Twitters ranking power to get your tweets, blog on Google first page.
April 19th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Don't you think following a ton of people like you are doing now doesn't matter much though?
You follow 40,000+ people and in turn 40,000+ people follow you. So how are you even keeping track of what your followers say? The answer is you can't, so why don't you unfollow everyone that you don't already track via something like TweetDeck anyway?
April 19th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Chris TY for the comment.
I follow 46,000 and followed back about 50,000 Chris you will learn quickly that using Twitter with your 125 followrs is a waste of time. I built a strong community on Twitter with conversation, RT's Dms.
Doesn't matter how many followers you have you wont be able to keep up with them all all the time.
Twitter is a marketing tool and communication tool, if you are using it to build your blog you will need alot more then 125 followers.
If you are using it to meet new friends then 125 is fine.
If you look at my blog, comments, RTs you will see my twitter community is pretty active and engaging. Big difference then when you see others with 40,000 followers and can barely pull 5 RTs.
Like I wrote in my twitter dummy guide, it is about building a community, no matter size followers you have.
May 22nd, 2010 at 5:52 am
I must try harder on my Twitter account, though I can quite honestly say that since breaking the 3,000 mark in followers I have notice an increase in the amount of hits that come from Twitter to my blog, which is always a good thing, so I must be doing something right
May 22nd, 2010 at 6:01 am
Yes.. the tweaks to your Twitter page are simple, with huge benefits.
Yea, twitter is a big traffic source for me.. step one, get followers, step 2 engage with those followers.
What I talk about in ym book Twitter Dummy
May 22nd, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Yes.. the tweaks to your Twitter page are simple, with huge benefits.
Yea, twitter is a big traffic source for me.. step one, get followers, step 2 engage with those followers.
What I talk about in ym book Twitter Dummy