I'm back to writing about the importance of social networks for a photographer and how to take advantage of them. Today I want to talk about Twitter and how you can use it to publicize your photographs both nationally and internationally.

Flickr and Twitter when combined together in the right way can become a powerful means to make known their photographic works.

Twitter unlike Facebook allows us to get in touch very easily and quickly with a large number of people who share the same interests, in our case, that of photography.

After that, open a Twitter account using your name, do not need to use special nick if your aim is to promote your photos; you'll be in front of a screen like this picture below (it will be a different background because I have changed it).

Analyze them, starting from our left: the first thing we notice is the name "Fotografia Tweets" which is different from the username "FotografiaBlog", in fact it is the latter that appears in the address of your profile, (mine is my http://twitter.com /#/FotografiaBlog). Just below the user name contains a description of our profile, you put it there during registration and may change at any time; still below you will find the history of your Tweet. In the screen to your right you will find the total number of your tweet, people who followed (Following), those who follow you (Follower) and lists that you have entered.

Now the most important part: go to the settings of your account and go to the Connections, opening another tab in your web browser click on this link: http://manageflitter.com/unfollow-who-unfollowed-me and http://twitterfeed.com/

In a few words you will use manageflitter to remove those who do not follow you or do not meet certain parameters; it is an essential operation if done manually would take a long time.

After enabling these services, I explain how to get so many followers and to promote our photographs found on a Flickr account.

1) Go to your twitter account and copy the address of your RSS feed.

2) Enter the RSS feed that you just copied to your twitterfeed account and connect to your Twitter account.

3) For many Follower is essential to publish information relevant to the niche of people who follow us, and is even more important to publish a good number per day. MC Photography Blog is very helpful because it is the best photography blogs.

Go to twitterfeed and over at the RSS feeds of your photo gallery on Flickr posted this: http://feeds.feedburner.com/McPhotographyBlog

In this way, your account will have the opportunity to be included in the lists I had already talked about above and your photographs will be seen even by those who are not your followers!

4) Now you just have to find other photo fans, use the form on Twitter Search and enter keywords like "Photograph" "Nikon"... and then move to people form, you will find profiles of Twitter, start following the English and their followers.

WARNING: After a while Twitter prevents you from following the other profiles, because a number of Following (ie, people who followed) must match a number of Follower (people who follow you). For example, after following 1000 people, twitter prevents you from continuing to be followed by others and you can do when others follow your followers will almost equates the following, wait a day or two and see how many will follow. Of course it is difficult that all follow the match, those who follow you can delete them with manageflitter and continue to follow people that interest you and that in turn will be interested in your tweets.

This is one of the early strategies for promoting themselves on twitter.

Now it's up to you to learn to use this powerful communications medium. I have almost 6000 Follower with my twitter account on photography http://twitter.com/#!/PhotographyMCB (which I invite you to follow) and I'm reaping the benefits of my work, I hope to be helpful, have a good light!