Last night I went to the Boston Word Press Meetup, which is hosted very graciously by Microsoft’s Cambridge office. I decided to LiveTweet the presentation, which was about the premium WordPress theme Thesis, so at the beginning of the talk I tweeted the following:

At #microsoft #cambridge for #wordpress #meetup. Speaker riffing on #Thesis. Any questions?

And then, about thirty seconds later, I get RTed by The Real Microsoft!

Okay, okay- I know the “Real Microsoft” isn’t the Real Microsoft. At least I hope not, because that Twitter background is horrible. But they do have over 1000 followers, which is 1000 people who would never have heard my name otherwise.

Clearly, the secret to this tiny, twit-sized success is to use hash-tags that might be found by people who are not following you already.

I know I’ll be hashing up a storm now.

You should try it too, and let me know how it goes. You can either comment here, or find me on Twitter.