As any serious blogger knows, participating in social networking sites is one way to attract visitors to your site. We labor over our content, our site design; we put a lot of sweat, intensive time-consuming work and thinking into this bit of digital information. Now, by God someone needs to come and see what we have accomplished.
Twitter has served well to the “come and see me” idea. I follow people who I hope have the same goals and ideas as I do. I also follow some who can lead me to information I might not otherwise have known. And, I’ve been known to tweet my own blog posts.
So far there is nothing wrong with this, if you tweet in moderation. Even re-tweeting a post that is unusual or highly informative is a good thing. What I don’t like is to open TweetDeck and see the same face of someone who has tweeted every time he or she passes gas.
I’m always late to the party. I went to Twitter with much reluctance in the beginning. All I could see was the 140 character posts of “What are you doing..” , “I’m feeling blue…” or “Stopped at Mickey-Ds for lunch…” nonsense.
I then discovered that real business people with something to say said it on Twitter. Now we have the over-eager who have good tweets, but much too often. In a couple of cases I have stopped following someone because they live to tweet. They are crowding out others who also have something to say.
If you want to get the most out of Twitter, think in terms of leveraging. Re-tweets are much more effective than tweeting your own horn (pun intended). Either way, burdening your followers with too many tweets will more than likely have the reverse effect of your intentions – to get noticed.
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Totally agree. A couple of times a day is enough. I’ve dropped a lot of people.
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