To become a part of micro blogging, it is very necessary for you to join it as soon as possible to become a part of huge community of Twitter amidst crowd of its followers and following. Twitter, definitely, is a great achievement in joining global conversation and sharing thoughts, opinions, information and media. However, if you are a beginner you can proceed by following steps to gain it huge and big at Twitter.

Search Your Acquaintance at Twitter: On twitter to increase your network, you can start things with from Find Friends on Other Networks tool that helps you to scan AOL, Yahoo! Or Gmail account to come across anyone known on Twitter. And following those acquaintances on Twitter will inform them about your profile and you from there on can start exchanging Tweets with each other.  Or you can seek help from the Twitter people search engines like Tweepz that provides with better results.

Find People Thinking Like You: After searching out people known to you now you can start searching for people having same habit and attitude like you. And this will make your conversation more interesting and long lived on Twitter.  By Twitter search you can find easily find out for people matching up with your taste and opinion. Third party Twitter directories like Twellow and WeFollow are also great tool for search out for like minded people and opinions on Twitter.

Look for People in Your Area: To make a better use of Twitter, it is advisable to follow people that live locally in your area. This way you can have better information and updates about meet, services and have better information about local issues. On Twitter search, limiting search to local area you can have results for local people and you can follow them for starting conversation.

Switch to Desktop Clients: After you have initially set yourself on Twitter, the next you need to focus on switching from the Twitter.com web interface to desktop clients for Twitter to handle more and more people easily at a time.  These Desktop clients happen to be software created, specifically for conversation with followers and following in organized groups. The current most popular desktop clients are Tweetdeck and Seesmic.

Learn the rules at Twitter: And finally, you should learn about different types of jargon related to twitter like #hashtags, @replies, retweets, direct messages, etc to converse in effective and popular manner at Twitter.