What Are You Doing?
That’s what Twitter wants to know and that’s what you are going to tell them. The trick is filtering out the stuff that other people don’t want to know. There is nothing wrong with tweeting about your personal life and in fact it is encouraged. If you post things that are funny, scary, sad, exciting etc, you’re more likely to get responses from other Twitter users.
Mix It Up
Here are a couple of things you can Tweet about:
- Links to interesting news stories. You can usually find some interesting articles on social bookmarking sites like Digg and StumbleUpon.
- Links to industry news. One of the things I will be talking about in a future post is how to choose who you are going to follow. One great thing about Twitter is the ability to connect with other individuals within your industry. Tweeting industry news both attracts more like minded individuals to your profile as well as gives your followers something to ReTweet (I’ll talk more about ReTweeting later as well)
- Company news. Whether it’s your blog, news or press releases. Let the world know what your company is up to.
- Ask questions. Twitter is a great resource for finding answers fast. It’s also a great way to get quick poll results.
- ReTweet, reply and DM. This will make more sense within the next couple of posts. Twitter basically gives you the tools to reply to other people’s posts, re post other peoples posts or message them privately. This is the heart and sole of Twitter and each function will get special attention as needed.
- Links to videos and images. This could be stuff from assorted sites liked Flickr or YouTube or even your own media from sites like 12seconds.tv and TwitPic.
- Your thoughts. People love responding to other people’s opinions and it’s always interesting to hear other people’s points of view on topics.
- Promotional material. Offer discounts to your Twitter followers.
The key is finding a good mix of resourceful and personal posts. Think of Twitter like an ongoing networking event. Learn from each other, help each other and make new connections.
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