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On Empire Avenue, your stock price is determined by how many of your shares people buy and your influence.  And, how many shares people buy is affected by your influence. Clearly, influence is important there.  

Your influence level is determined by adding up the following in some secret EA manner (among other things):

1. How active you are on the site in general.
2. How active you are on other sites linked to your profile.
3. The number of people you support and follow on the site.
4. The number of people you support and follow on linked sites.
5. The amount you interact with others on Empire Avenue.

So, when it comes to Twitter you need to be doing the following things:

1. If you don’t have one, you need an account.
2. You need your account linked to Empire Avenue.
3. You need to post to twitter (tweet) on a regular basis.
4. You need to say interesting things so that people will want to follow you.
5. If you have a linked blog, you should be tweeting about it.
6. You need to follow other people.
7. You need to get people to follow you.

Here are a number of things you can do to get people to follow you:

1. Follow other Empire Avenue members.  They are trying to build their influence.  So, they have an incentive to follow you back.
2. Follow people on Empire Avenue.
3. Post Shout Outs on people’s EA profiles to let them know you are following them on Twitter and EA.
4. If you have the talent, create an interesting background on your Twitter page for those that use the service on the web.
5. Create an Empire Avenue list on Twitter and add EA members to it.  Twitter users can see who has added them to lists.
6. Use the #EmpireAve hashtag in your tweets just like I did here to allow other twitter users to easily find your Empire Avenue posts.

To find interesting Empire Avenue members to follow on Twitter, you can do the following:

1. Look for a Twitter link on the main page of people’s EA profiles.
2. Use the search function in Twitter to find people using the #EmpireAve hashtag.
3. Look for Twitter lists of EA members on the Twitter pages of people you already follow there.  (see my page twitter.com/empirebuilding for examples).

Here are some other random thoughts:

• Don’t start following hundreds of people on Twitter at once.  It will look like you don’t care about the people you follow.
• If you use your existing Twitter Account for anything of importance and are worried about flooding it with Empire Avenue messages considering creating a second Twitter account and liking EA to that one instead.  Just remember, you will lose the benefit of anyone that is already following you.

Finally, if you haven’t already, don’t forget to follow me on Twitter.  Together, we will build an Empire.