- Establish your expert status. You will become the ‘Go To’ person for your community.
- Use link shorteners, great headlines that grab attention and foremost high
quality information. - Stay within your area of knowledge and purpose.
- Introduce yourself to influencers.
- Engage in conversations, use #hashtags, searches and chats.
- Engagement is most important.
DO . . .
- Help your followers achieve their goals.
- Read your follower’s timeline.
- Reply to Mentions and Direct Messages (DM) within 24 hours.
- BE Honest. BE Attentive.
- BE Active. BE a Resource.
- BE Inspirational. BE Informative.
- BE sure to mention your Twitter account everywhere.
- List yourself on Twitter directories.
- Use Hashtags.
DON’T . . .
- Talk about everything you do.
- Tell everyone, everywhere you go.
- Talk about yourself all the time.
- Flood your tweet stream.
- Tweet too many messages over a short period of time.
- Use Twitter as IM –instant messaging.
- Use applications that use your accounts to invite people via DM to your mafia family, or use other phishing.
- Sell all the time.
- Get a big head.
- Send lists of names with no explanation.
- RT someone else’s list of names or #Follow mentions.
- Be argumentative.
- Tweet while intoxicated.
- Beg for a following.
- Think about Followers. Instead think of your valued audience.
Some of My #TwitterTips . . .
#TwitterTip: Always check your links or person’s link before you RT
#TwitterTip: Always use a URL shortening service to prevent your URLs being broken on RT
#TwitterTip: Compliment at least 1 person everyday on Twitter
(there’s always something nice to say about everyone)
#TwitterTip: Never belittle another tweeter. If you do, you risk offending all of
their followers too
#TwitterTip: Following back is a choice not an obligation or courtesy
#TwitterTip: Never forget those who helped ypu get to the top. Once at the top, reach back and help the next person up
#TwitterTip: In the beginning it is best to become a great follower 1st, find your voice, add value, engage & followers will flock to you
#TwitterTip: It takes 1000 tweets to build a reputation on Twitter, and only 1 to ruin it. Be careful what you tweet
#TwitterTip: Smile when you Tweet. Tweople can tell
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