Twitter is it a Big Waste of Your Time?
Finding it hard to get followers? Here are some helpful tips taken from Julia Angwin’s Wall Street Journal article “How to Twitter.”
* Ask colleagues for their Twitter addresses and begin to follow them. Then search through their public lists of followers and whom they’ve followed.
* The best way to get followers is to tweet (constantly post messages).
* Include a short link that goes to a website, blog, etc that might more easily explain what you are you are trying say.
* Tweet something interesting! Reconstruct boring sentences to something more eye-catching.
* Try to get “retweeted.”
* Utilize the @reply function to broadcast your messages to a wider audience.
* Answer question. One guy even made a career out of doing!
* Use the more than 2,000 Twitter applications to sort through and organize tweet
Twitter is where you want to share common interests and ask insightful questions, and, ideally, read the interesting answers you get back, says Laura Fitton (@pistachio), who runs Pistachio Consulting, which advices people and companies on how best to utilize Twitter.
“Once you get going with Twitter, this information will come to you.”
Twitter has developed a business following. People use Twitter to keep up with news, opinion and happenings in their field, for example. Once you get going with Twitter, this information will come to you.
More on this in a minute here. Twitter is it a Big Waste of Your Time?
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