The 140 characters are the easy part of understanding Twitter. The current podcast gives you the basics of engagement in order to shine on the platform.
Whether you decide to send news updates, quotes, or just things that interest you, the main thing is to try to make it interesting for your followers. The whole idea of limiting you to 140 characters is designed to make tweeting fast and easy to read for those who decide to follow you. the current podcast goes into detail how to make those 140 characters work for you.
Tweeting
Consider exactly who are your followers and design your tweets to match what you think would interest them. They have followed because they thought you would provide tweets regarding thing they might not run into themselves. To an extent you are a gatherer for them. Chose wisely.
How you send tweets
It may not have been your plan to clog your follower’s twitter feed, but that is what happens when you send all your tweets at one time. You’re not cheating to use a tweet scheduler which will send tweets at specific times. There are a number of apps that will do this for you, some of them for free. Twuffer is one I use but you can find one that works for you by simply doing a search for “schedulers”.
Share some love
Yes Twitter is all about sending out tweets, but if you want to get noticed it also helps to retweet or favorite others. That means in addition to sending your own you have to strategically retweet. It gets you the support of the person you favored while also getting YOU noticed.
More than anything you want your tweets to have a sense of fun and information. Armed with the information contained in the podcast you should be prepared to get yourself noticed while you brighten someone’s day.
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