Twitter is one of the biggest websites in social media and is only going to grow bigger. I've been on Twitter for a few years now and have learned a few tips to help grow your following and be more influential.
Follow
Following other people can increase your following because they may follow you back. Not everyone will follow you back but a good majority of people will.
Reply
If someone sends you an @ reply always make sure to reply to it. If you don't reply to them but are replying to other people then they may get fed up and unfollow you. Also send an @ reply to random people if they ask a question and they may return the favor to you by following. (more...)
Don't forget to check out part 1 if you have no read it.
In the second part of this 5 part tutorial series on how to build a Twitter-like website, we will be creating a signup form so that users can register to our website.
We will be adding records to the database that we created in part 1 and creating validation rules to make sure that the user didn't put any invalid data into the form.
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This tutorial will be the first of a five part series where we will built a social network site similar to Twitter from scratch. We will be using the CodeIgniter framework for the core of the website and jQuery for the effects. In this first part we will be configuring CodeIgniter to display everything correctly and we will also set up a database and connect to it.
