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Twitter: Sometimes “Boring” and “Dry” is Fine
Ask any social media consultant and they’ll tell you that Twitter needs to be conversational. To make the most out of Twitter, you shouldn’t be just broadcasting your messages – you should also be interacting with others, responding to their tweets, answering their questions, being helpful.
The best Twitter accounts are those that have a mix of broadcasting and interacting, and especially those that add the occasional personal tweet to the mix, making even a corporate account appear more human and more approachable.
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How NOT To Tweet
Another example of a completely useless Twitter account. Automated, broadcasting, annoying, no connecting or interacting. A waste of time!
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They Didn’t Follow You Back? Chances Are, It’s Not Personal
The more I tweet, the more I realize that in the vast majority of cases, people no longer check each and every link in each email notification they receive about a new follower, to decide if they should follow back. I know I don’t! I used to do this in the past – I would go to each Twitter account who had followed me to see if we share the same interests. I even used to go visit people’s websites to make sure we were a good fit. Based on this research, I used to make my decision whether to follow them back or not.
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Twitter Not Very Social
Were you surprised to learn that Twitter users are more into broadcasting and less into networking? Anyone who’s been on Twitter for longer than a week can see that most people use Twitter to share links with others or to report on their activities – Twitter is not a very interactive platform despite built-in tools such as “reply” and “retweet.”
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Why It’s So Difficult To Get Twitter Followers
If you’re not a celebrity, getting people on Twitter to follow you back is notoriously difficult. This is especially true if you look as if you’re trying to sell something, so don’t. It’s funny, really, becuase we all try to sell something on Twitter – if not a product or a service, then we’re trying to sell ourselves, our ideas, our brand. But the unspoken rules of social media say that even though we’re all there to sell, we must pretend as if we’re all there to engage with one another and have conversations.
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