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Friday, December 04, 2009
Make your Tweets Valuable and People will Stick With You
One of the goals of companies seeking to build a presence on Twitter is to gain and keep followers. The more followers you have the greater the likelihood your Tweet will be read and passes on in the form of a retweet. However, getting and keeping followers on Twitter can be challenging. Many small companies make take shortcuts in their Twitter presence which can alienate followers and cause them to get "Unfollowed."
I recently read a very good blog post on which included seven tips on how to avoid getting unfollowed on twitter. These tips were:
1. Stop Spamming and bragging about your blog posts
Most of us have blogs and use twitter as a marketing tool to let people know the latest on our blogs. We also link the blog posts in our tweets which is the most common practice. Tweeples appreciate when you tweet about something important that will benefit twitter users as a whole. But linking the same post many times in a day is seriously considered as spam and will make you lose followers instantly. Stop that!
2. Tweet Simple and Keep it Clean
Do not curse anyone or use obscene expressions in you tweets. People follow you because they are interested in what you have got to offer. Show respect and gain respect. Doing the dirty thing will definitely jeopardize your twitter account as well as your followers count.
3 . Never Tweet on your Followers Count
All of us enjoy reaching milestones in twitter. Do not ever tweet about the number of followers you have. Do not brag on the list and the celebrities that are following you. This does more worse than good in terms of the followers count. Keep it real and take it easy.
4. Tweets are not for link sharing!
I sincerely request people (at least my readers) not to tweet JUST links. You dont expect people to just click on your links without knowing where the links will take them. It might not be spam but that is how its looked at. Twitter supports 140 characters per message and I believe that the space is sufficient for adding a title to your link. No one is bothered to click on links without knowing what it is.
5. The power of MicroBlogging
Remember, you tweet for people and not for BOTS. Twitter is called a microblog and is so much powerful because you can reach out to your audience with a single tweet. Try to maintain a friendly relationship with your followers and even send some personal tweets to them. This makes them feel special and lets them know that you care.
6. Twitter is not an Online Game!
I know its fun to tweet about every single thing you do everyday. Never use twitter as if you are playing a game. Do not tweet hundred times a day. It is always disturbing to see a single person occupy the entire timeline. Personally, I always unfollow the person who floods my twitter with tons of tweets everyday. Remember, your number of tweets do not count; its the quality and the value of your tweets that matters.
7. RT: Retweeting is good to a certain extent
Retweeting is a good practice and is encouraged too. When you share an informative tweet, it helps your followers. But using twitter is much more than just retweeting. You need to share your opinions, ideas and thoughts in your twitter and not just always retweet some other random ideas or posts you find online. Make sure that you contribute to this social media because your followers are hungry for information; the ratio of your tweets to retweets should be always more.
These tips from the "Master Mind Blogger" are some common sense ways to avoid getting unfollowed on Twitter.
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References:
7 Tips to Avoid getting Unfollowed on Twitter, http://mastermindblogger.com/2009/7-tips-to-avoid-getting-unfollowed-on-twitter/
I recently read a very good blog post on which included seven tips on how to avoid getting unfollowed on twitter. These tips were:
1. Stop Spamming and bragging about your blog posts
Most of us have blogs and use twitter as a marketing tool to let people know the latest on our blogs. We also link the blog posts in our tweets which is the most common practice. Tweeples appreciate when you tweet about something important that will benefit twitter users as a whole. But linking the same post many times in a day is seriously considered as spam and will make you lose followers instantly. Stop that!
2. Tweet Simple and Keep it Clean
Do not curse anyone or use obscene expressions in you tweets. People follow you because they are interested in what you have got to offer. Show respect and gain respect. Doing the dirty thing will definitely jeopardize your twitter account as well as your followers count.
3 . Never Tweet on your Followers Count
All of us enjoy reaching milestones in twitter. Do not ever tweet about the number of followers you have. Do not brag on the list and the celebrities that are following you. This does more worse than good in terms of the followers count. Keep it real and take it easy.
4. Tweets are not for link sharing!
I sincerely request people (at least my readers) not to tweet JUST links. You dont expect people to just click on your links without knowing where the links will take them. It might not be spam but that is how its looked at. Twitter supports 140 characters per message and I believe that the space is sufficient for adding a title to your link. No one is bothered to click on links without knowing what it is.
5. The power of MicroBlogging
Remember, you tweet for people and not for BOTS. Twitter is called a microblog and is so much powerful because you can reach out to your audience with a single tweet. Try to maintain a friendly relationship with your followers and even send some personal tweets to them. This makes them feel special and lets them know that you care.
6. Twitter is not an Online Game!
I know its fun to tweet about every single thing you do everyday. Never use twitter as if you are playing a game. Do not tweet hundred times a day. It is always disturbing to see a single person occupy the entire timeline. Personally, I always unfollow the person who floods my twitter with tons of tweets everyday. Remember, your number of tweets do not count; its the quality and the value of your tweets that matters.
7. RT: Retweeting is good to a certain extent
Retweeting is a good practice and is encouraged too. When you share an informative tweet, it helps your followers. But using twitter is much more than just retweeting. You need to share your opinions, ideas and thoughts in your twitter and not just always retweet some other random ideas or posts you find online. Make sure that you contribute to this social media because your followers are hungry for information; the ratio of your tweets to retweets should be always more.
These tips from the "Master Mind Blogger" are some common sense ways to avoid getting unfollowed on Twitter.
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References:
7 Tips to Avoid getting Unfollowed on Twitter, http://mastermindblogger.com/2009/7-tips-to-avoid-getting-unfollowed-on-twitter/
