| When it comes to writing tweets, don?t spend a lot of time worrying about whether it?s creative enough, witty enough, or interesting enough.
Once you have become an active member of the twitter community, you?ll find it easier to think of entertaining and useful tweets, and will also be able to respond to ongoing discussions from those you follow and who follow you.
For now, post whatever?s on your mind. Working on a website? Post about it. Perhaps you?ve found an interesting website or news story, post about it.
The idea is to simply post enough so that you become comfortable with the twitter system, and more importantly, so that your profile page shows activity before you start inviting people to follow you. Once you?ve posted your first tweet, it?s time to start following people on twitter, so that you can build up your twitter presence, and encourage people to follow you in return.
Don?t just sign up and blast out ads every few minutes expecting to achieve anything but annoying those on your list.
Take the time to talk to people individually by directing messages to specific people, post useful information or links to free products and resources that people in your various niche markets would appreciate.
Just like anything else you need to develop a reputation on Twitter as being someone who is interested in helping others, while developing your own Twitter presence.
A great thing about Twitter is the ability to quickly locate other people who are involved in your target market, or industry.
For example, if you are looking to find people to interview who may be experienced in specific things, you can find many people who are involved in nearly every topic and subject online.
It's like a rolodex of the entire online business industry, and as Twitter continues to grow, more and more people are jumping on board, so expect to see Twitter evolve and change to improve their system and add more interactive, productive features that will make it even easier for use to reach out to other users.
Posting subtle little updates about your current projects, websites, blogs and products is an easy way to keep people up to date on what you are doing, even people who otherwise might not know who you are, or what you do.
The way you present your updates, and the frequency in which you do it, (avoiding Twitter spamming) is critical in staying current and helping your brand become memorable, and noticed by the community. |