It appears spammers on twitter are getting more sophisticated and deceptive. A tweet mentioning @clickwebdesign rolled in, asking a question. Nothing suspicious until I remembered answering the exact question from the same person some time ago. After a second glance I realised it wasn't the same person at all, but a cloned twitter account!

Networking events are a popular approach to finding new contacts and potentially new customers for b2b businesses in particular. It's most likely that you have attended some yourself, but was it really worthwhile? How many new customers and contacts did you meet?

A healthy growing twitter following, if managed well, can get your business message out to thousands of potential new clients each week, without filling your timeline with rubbish tweets you're not interested in.

Using tools to manage social media for business, especially for Twitter, saves time and promotes growth. If your new to using twitter tools to spring clean and grow your twitter following, these three tools will amaze you! Just run them in order to unfollow those not following you back or sending spammy tweets, and then grow your audience with targeted twitter followers.

Once you have established a twitter account it doesn't take long to realise there are limits and constraints when using the twitter.com website to manage accounts efficiently.

Because of twitters success, numerous twitter tools have been released by third party programmers to help manage and grow a twitter account. Your first step is choosing a social media dashboard.

There are plenty of methods to gain Twitter followers – which is a different post entirely – but what is the point of having thousands of followers if you have no logical engagement or relationship with them? Just as quickly as people will follow you on Twitter, they'll just as quickly UN-follow you if the way you communicate doesn't suit them.

So how do you engage your Twitter followers? Start acting on these social media tips and you'll be well on your way!