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Twitter can sometimes feel like a party in which every type of person is invited and so there is inevitably clashes. Nobody has met anybody else there before and everyone is still learning the rules. Here is a basic guide for not sucking at Twitter.
Don’t treat followers like a computer – The people that follow you are on a computer, they are not the actual computers. Take time to build genuine lasting relationships with your followers and you will get much more from them and them from you. A man from England recently travelled around the world for free, only buying food, solely from his relationships on Twitter.
Twitter is not a blog feed- If people wanted to subscribe to your RSS feed, give them the direct link. Twitter is a global conversation aimed at connecting everyone and using it as just as RSS feed can come across as rude.
Have a full profile bio – on the right hand side of your Twitter profile page you have a small area in which you can tell people about yourself, tell them where you live and link to a website. Make full use of this page as it shows you’ve put thought into your Twitter profile page.
Background Image – In Twitter, you do not have to have a standard default blue background page but can change it to one of your own choosing with many tutorials available online. Having your own image gives an air of professionalism so would be well suited to those who are using Twitter primarily for business purposes. It also gives you more space to tell others about yourself and have a larger image of yourself.
No Mass Adding - From personal experience I can tell you there is nothing more annoying than being added by someone on Twitter who has no intention to interact with you but just wants to push a product in your face or increase their followers count for vanity purposes. This is the height of Twitter non-etiquette. By providing great value tweets you can get lots of followers by word of mouth over time.
Know Basic Terminology - Do terms like hashtag, trending and tweet-up mean anything to you? By learning the basic terminology of Twitter and learning as you go along too you’ll never be out of the know and feel like someone is talking in a new language.
People don’t care about the contents of your breakfast - Unless you are a major celebrity of some kind that is. Try your best to provide genuinely useful and gripping information with your tweets or you may find people unsubscribe from following your tweets.
Twitterize Your Website - Put a link to your Twitter profile on your website and then automatically people who add you will have a similar interest to you with no extra effort on your behalf. This is a great way to meet people with a similar set of interests as your own.
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Great point about no mass adding. This should apply to facebook and every other social site as well. Some people just want to show off how many friends they can accumulate.
People def. don’t care about your breakfast; I don’t think most people even care about celebrities’ breakfasts (unless they’re really obsessed with a certain person).
And I like the point about the blog feed. Only using twitter as a way to advertise your blog seems pretty lazy.