Well right now i don’t think i need to introduce you to Twitter, the much talked about Micro-Blogging platform. So here are some tips to help you make so called tweets (Updates) super duper hit on twitter. Read on to make a Twhit (twitter + hit) tweet!
- Write acceptable content (to all communities, gender and so on)
- Try posting about lists as people like these too much
- If adding links try using reputable url shortening services so that people are more likely to click
- Try not to exceed your text limit over 120 to leave space for rt’s
- If your doing #followfriday try adding reasons as to why you should follow and not just @usernames
- You should start Rt’ing. If you want other people to rt please start Rt’ing other peoples tweets
- Try making more friends on twitter as this will help you when asking question and get attention of more people on twitter via @ replies
- Don’t keep on posting links over and over. People will think of you as a spammer
- Must use hastags as it helps to index your tweets for certain topic
- Reply to 50% of your @’s which you think are good. Don’t go behind replying to all or else your timeline will just consist of @’s but still theres no harm in doing it anyways 🙂
- Tweet at the right time. Probably you won’t be tweeting about your dog’s illness when Michael Jackson has died…
- Make sensible comments when commenting on other peoples tweet
- Try to add humor in every tweet of yours. It will help you, surely
- Try adding catchy headlines rather than using those old same repeated stuff to attract readers.
- Get a Cool Background for your Twitter Profile. 70% of the time, it does matter.
- Make your avatar related to things you mostly talk about, like if you’r self centered try adding your own picture! lol (Just Joking)
- Next come’s is the Profile. Don’t stuff it with those boring things. Add things which are Younique about you 🙂
- If your a Musician #musicmonday is the best day to let people around you know about the tracks you’ve created
- If you are a blogger never post links to your blog more than 7 times a day, or else your blog will gain a bad reputation!
- Once in a while try posting Funny Pics using tweetpic to your twitter account, it refreshes (F5) your followers 🙂
- Make your aim to make your followers ROFL, LOL, LMAO and so on.
- When posting quotes always make sure you add #quote tag or else people won’t be able to understand (It happens sometimes) that is it with your real life or something?
- Forget those advertising products for twitter which monetize your twitter account. No one on twitter wants that shit, please.
- Don’t ever go against what the twitter community is saying or else you’ll make a hell lot of enemies on twitter!
- Don’t be scared to ask help on twitter.
- As per the last point, always be ready to help others on twitter.
- Try supporting Charities online via various methods on twitter like the Twestival.
- Try to imagine yourself as a follower and then tweet it so that you can get a better understanding of it
- Be Good at Breaking the news, if you’ve done it your a hit buddy!
- Please, for god sake don’t criticize people on twitter, yes not even George Bush or any other company or else you might end up paying $50,000 for it!
- Please don’t abuse people on twitter, lol, it really sucks.
- Don’t even try to hit people on twitter like
I will hit you! *puches*
- Try to give useful advice to users like if there’s a worm on loose on twitter try informing your followers about it
- When there are emergency situation please don’t add to the chaos but try to calm the situation down
- Control your tweet limit, dont tweet more than 7 times a day or 10 time an hour or else your tweets will cover up your followers timeline completely.
- Be careful regarding your privacy. Don’t give out info about what your doing every 5 minutes or it will land you into a big problem!
- Don’t tweet what your doing every damn second… tweet what you think others should know, is interesting.
- Please don’t Spam. Dont follow in large numbers as you might get your account banned!
- ok.. I am just reaching the end. Provide the users something they won’t get to know anywhere like if your from Mumbai tweet something what has happened in Mumbai, it will surely be loved by readers!
- Remember the Golden words – “Thank You”. Remember these, always!
- Use Emoticons like :-), 😉 :(, <3 and so on to express your feelings. It takes over more than just words!
Nice tips but bro the twitter homepage ahs changed 😉 maybe you would like to add the screenshot of the new one instead of the older 😛
Sure.. 🙂 Always need advice from a design guy 😛
Done 🙂
haha i was just kidding but glad that you changed it 🙂
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Excellent Tips.. Should help me.. 🙂
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Great article with good tips and ideas very helpful
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Thanks 🙂
Still not using Twitter very much. these tips will be useful for me really
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Be yourself is my advice for twitter users. Once you find tweeting for fun, you will have all these qualities 🙂
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Yup, true! 😉
nice post! i tweeted it out so everyone will know about this,its good to share good things,
but still “i tweet what i want to tweet,and whenever i want it to” LOL.
thanks for this
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Anytime 🙂 Glad you liked it 😛
Appreciate the list.
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Thanks 🙂 More twitter lists coming up soon!
I completely disagree with tip 10 “Reply to 50% of your @’s which you think are good”. Unless you are a celebrity who gets thousands of @ mentions, then everyone else should make an effort to reply to no less than 100% of their @ mentions. I typically get between 10-20 mentions a day and my view is that each person has made an effort to engage with me so it is imperative on me to engage them and reply back. Who cares if my timeline has lots of @ mentions interspersed with my other tweets and retweets, some people (myself included) like to see this because (a) it confirms that the account is operated by a human being; and (b) that the human being operating it is an engaging, friendly and inclusive person. If as is being suggested here, you SELECTIVELY REPLY only to 'good' @ mentions (whatever a 'good' @ mention happens to be anyway), then those who you do not reply to will almost certainly unfollow you (whether they check your timeline or not) because this gives the clearest indication possible on Twitter that you are arrogant and ignoring them and do not deem their effort of replying to your tweet worthy of your attention. Ultimately the tip is contradictory, because the rest of the tip seems to suggest that there is no harm in replying to 100% of your mentions – so why mention that it makes your timeline look bad in the first place?
Your point of view is correct. You must note, that if you get massive replies it's quite difficult. I am not sure about ethical approval of this but as per what we've observe, users do get annoyed with people continuously sending out “@” replies, because this blocks out the follower from engaging in conversation with you.
Next, it saves a lot of time. I know so many people who just cannot spend more than half an hour on twitter or stay live via Mobile devices. Replying to everyone surely becomes a pain. If you can reply to 100% of tweets, nothing like that. But if you can't make sure you can atleast reply to 50% too.
I still may have flaws in what I said above, and please tell me what do you think about it?
Thanks very much Monik for taking the time to explain your viewpoint. Much appreciated. I think my real objection is the 'SELECTIVE REPLYING' which you seem to be advising people do on Twitter.
An analogy to illustrate my point. Imagine Twitter as a party you are attending. Taylor Swift and Conan O' Brien (examples of Twitter users who probably get thousands of @ replies a day) have been hired to perform. Both Taylor and Conan will probably get lots of attention when they perform and people will shout compliments at them when they finish performing. No one doing so will expect an individual response back. Indeed, neither Taylor nor Conan will respond back to any one individual comment. But people are okay with this 0% response rate because they didn't do so in expectation of a response anyway from a celebrity. Celebrities at movie premieres for example are taught not to respond to one fan without at least making an effort to appear to be reaching out to ALL fans because if they do they will open the floodgates to all the other fans wanting a response – potentially damaging their reputations in the eyes of those fans who didn't get a response.
Now you are mingling with the other regular people at the party after Taylor and Conan's performances and you are chatting to someone. In the course of your chat, a group of people overhear an interesting point you made about an event in that day's news, so they come over to say hello and add their thoughts on the point you have just made and you start talking to them. Then a few other people see you chatting away in your group and think to themselves that you look like a friendly and engaging person, let's go over and join the conversation. In your world, when these people come over to you, they will be ignored because 'too many people are replying to you' so you will only engage with an arbitrary 50% of people. In my world, knowing how rude it is to ignore anyone, I will find a way to engage with all 100% of them. If I'm running up against time, I will at least reply and suggest a method of continuing the discussion at a later date over coffee/e-mail etc.
The most egregious example on Twitter of SELECTIVE REPLYING I have ever seen is of a woman I followed (but who didn't follow back) who claimed to be a psychologist who used Twitter to, amongst other things, promote her blog which was full of articles about how to be happy, how to relieve stress and (somewhat ironically) how to make relationships work. I used to retweet some of her blog articles and even replied with questions which arose in reading her articles. As a result of my RT'ing, some of my followers followed her and RT'ed some of her blog articles too. Every morning she would thank people for RTs but curiously none of my followers nor I was ever once included in these thank yous. She also never replied to my @ replies even though her timeline showed she spent a fair few tweets @ replying to individuals. On further investigation, it appeared she only deemed the small number of people SHE FOLLOWED (who presumably followed her back) worthy of thanking for RTs and replying to. It seemed that she had made a conscious decision that her followers who she deemed unworthy of following back were to be completely ignored. She would have been better off setting her account up as a private account and just reject all new follower requests. Needless to say, in time I and my followers who were following her duly unfollowed her because the perception amongst her followers was that she had built a clique on Twitter and only wanted to operate within that clique to the exclusion of everyone else. So we just left her to it. However, if she had chosen not to thank anyone for RTs and not reply to anyone's questions, I suspect I might still be following her – I would have just learnt not to RT her (as she doesn't appreciate it from ANYONE) and not to reply to her (because she never replies to ANYONE). Instead she chose to exhibit a prejudice of sorts and while I'm sure this wasn't the case, taken to extremes people will impute all sorts of mean things from this – her avatar showed her to be white and blonde, was it because I was black and some of my followers had Jewish sounding names that meant she didn't engage us? I'm exaggerating for effect but you see where I'm going with this…
I don't really understand the whole 'annoyed with clogging up timelines with @ replies' or 'preventing other people from engaging with you' arguments. Only select people see @ replies (the @ person themselves and our mutual followers) and Twitter, unlike instant messaging, does not have to be real time. You can respond an hour or a day later if you want, as long as you respond.
Thanks a lot for your response. I got your view point. Your definitely correct. Selectively replying to tweets doesn't mean that you neglect all but good. How i define Good tweets are one's which encourage me, or even spot some mistake or anything which affects and helps me. You can define Good the way you want. I will elaborate on it later as i write this.
Seth Godin, in one of his talks at TED showed that little graph of Time and choices. Somewhat can be drawn out here too. To many tweets, too less time and i won't be wrong in saying this because People just don't have the ENOUGHT TIME for things. In this kind of situation what you can least do is, reply to what all is possible and ignore the rest.
Now, coming back to GOOD. GOOD means tweets worth replying. Not all tweets are, i am pretty sure about it.
Suppose I tweeted,
“I got this-this-this console from Best Buy today”
I get about ten replies.
About five tweets are simply congratulating me and telling me how good the thing is. While i have more 5 replies, asking me about how much it cost me, what accessories i got, and stuff like that.
Now you can clearly define those tweets into two groups. Closed loop one's and Open Loop one's. Closed loop tweets mostly mark ending a conversation like if someone told me how good the product is, i probably can't drag the conversation to longer and annoy the tweeter too with sluggish tweets. Open loop tweets were those which interrogated me, I probably have more substantial things to say to them. Also, in this kind of situation i lack time, probably I might reply to open loops only.
Prioritizing replies is the main task. You mentioned,
“Twitter, unlike instant messaging, does not have to be real time. You can respond an hour or a day later if you want, as long as you respond.”
You indeed are correct, but maybe if you take time out to reply to the tweets, maybe by then you could have even more tweets waiting to receive a response? What will you do then? 🙂
Thanks a lot for your response. I got your view point. Your definitely correct. Selectively replying to tweets doesn't mean that you neglect all but good. How i define Good tweets are one's which encourage me, or even spot some mistake or anything which affects and helps me. You can define Good the way you want. I will elaborate on it later as i write this.
Seth Godin, in one of his talks at TED showed that little graph of Time and choices. Somewhat can be drawn out here too. To many tweets, too less time and i won't be wrong in saying this because People just don't have the ENOUGHT TIME for things. In this kind of situation what you can least do is, reply to what all is possible and ignore the rest.
Now, coming back to GOOD. GOOD means tweets worth replying. Not all tweets are, i am pretty sure about it.
Suppose I tweeted,
“I got this-this-this console from Best Buy today”
I get about ten replies.
About five tweets are simply congratulating me and telling me how good the thing is. While i have more 5 replies, asking me about how much it cost me, what accessories i got, and stuff like that.
Now you can clearly define those tweets into two groups. Closed loop one's and Open Loop one's. Closed loop tweets mostly mark ending a conversation like if someone told me how good the product is, i probably can't drag the conversation to longer and annoy the tweeter too with sluggish tweets. Open loop tweets were those which interrogated me, I probably have more substantial things to say to them. Also, in this kind of situation i lack time, probably I might reply to open loops only.
Prioritizing replies is the main task. You mentioned,
“Twitter, unlike instant messaging, does not have to be real time. You can respond an hour or a day later if you want, as long as you respond.”
You indeed are correct, but maybe if you take time out to reply to the tweets, maybe by then you could have even more tweets waiting to receive a response? What will you do then? 🙂
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