[Part 3 of my Domaining on Twitter series. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here.]

Twitter can be an invaluable tool for connecting with other domainers. Most major domainers are now on Twitter and commonly use it to promote their domains and share valuable information. In this post, I’ll describe 5 effective techniques you can use to find fellow domainers on Twitter.

Important: Before starting, make sure your profile is optimized to improve your chances of being followed and make sure you know how many people you can safely follow.

1. Use Twellow to find people who list ‘domaining’ in their profiles. Twellow is an advanced Twitter search tool which is considerably more powerful than Twitter’s standard search. You can use the following query to find Twitter users who use the word ‘domaining ‘ or ‘domainer’ in their profile.

@bio (domaining | domainer)

Be sure to review each profile before following a user. Look at their recent tweets – see the last time they posted and if their posts are on topic. If you are primarily interested in increasing your follower base, look at their following/follower ratio – as a some Twitter users do not follow large amounts of users and aren’t likely to follow you back.

2. Join the Twitter Domainers Group. Twitter Domainers was created by @AdamStrong of Domain Name News and currently has over 80 group members. Include the text ‘#domainers’ in your tweets and all domainers following this group will see them. Volume in this group is moderate and quality is usually very good.

3. Checkout DotSauce’s Top Domainers on Twitter post. This post lists over 30 domainers who are active on Twitter along with links to their profiles. It’s kept up to date, so be sure to leave DotSauce a comment with your info if you are actively using Twitter.

4. Install Tweetdeck and create groups to monitor domain related tweets. Tweetdeck is a very powerful free PC/Mac based Twitter client. It allows you to set notifications to be alerted when keywords are tweeted by anyone on Twitter. You can also create custom groups to notify you when your favorite domain bloggers post.

To start, create alerts for ‘domaining’ and ‘domainer’ as well as a custom group including the blogs listed at Domaining.com. This will allow you to monitor domain related tweets in real time and join in on conversations you find interesting.

5. Use Twitter Search to search for additional domain related phrases. Tweetdeck maxes out at about 8 categories, but you can use Twitter Search to search in real-time for other keywords. To find domain related tweets that don’t use the word ‘domain’, you might want to try some of the following searches (‘sedo’,’afternic’,’fabulous.com’,’whypark’,etc.)

Conclusion

This is a great time to start using Twitter if you are a domainer. Most domainers are also relatively new to Twitter and are usually very friendly and willing to help out new users. Good luck and please be sure to follow me and post a tweet to introduce yourself!

Update  3/17: Just thought of a sixth way.  If you’re interested in connecting with other Twitter domainers (new and old), feel free to leave a comment below with your Twitter username and a few words about your domaining interests.  At the end of the week, I’ll compile everyone’s info and post a tweet to my 700 followers to help everyone connect.

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