again, i’m probably contradicting someone here, but i cant stand seeing those “Welcome new followers @somebody and @someoneelse tweets.” They serve no purpose except to clog up a timeline.
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fulltimecasual
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divinewrite
If you’re having a private (DM) conversation with someone, make sure you keep it that way. Don’t accidentally broadcast a direct message. I did this once, and it was very embarrassing. I sent my first DM properly, then decided I needed to say something else. But this time, I accidentally sent a normal Tweet instead of a DM. It went out to everyone, completely out of context. Ugh. I still shudder and blush!
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SilkCharm
Be nice. Even when people are being really silly, responding with humour and a light touch goes a long way. Yelling at them about how they don’t “get social media” just makes enemies not friends. GROUP HUG !!111!!!
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Stephen Collins
The @KevinRuddPM story suggesting they crashed Twitter over fast follower pickup is demonstrably rubbish. They should have said “Something went wrong. We have no idea what. Sorry.”
Honesty, openness, preparedness to fail publicly are key in the hyperconnected world.
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kcarruthers
for the most part people on twitter (apart from the bots) just want you to have a conversation with them - reciprocity is important
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John Lacey
It sounds obvious (hopefully it is) but if not… be yourself.
Your personality shines through even in 140 characters. If you’re feigning to be someone else - something else - people will know and be extremely distrustful of the information you provide.
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GaryPHayes
Here is a little formula I just cooked up called the Tweet-GQ (Tweet Gary Quotient) that works out a Twitter rating. To be considered as a valuable system to be used on top 100s etc. Before I go into explanation, here is the secret formula
( ((Following/3)+Followers) x (Followers/Updates) ) / 10
This takes into account the raw numbers of followers weighted over following. More importantly it then has an critical multiplier - that of how many updates you do in relation to the followers you generate. So simply, it rewards high numbers of followers but also takes into account how many tweets or updates it took you to get that many followers.
So a few examples at moment - SilkCharm 72, Trib 31, Lee 34, NickHodge 17, Gary 22, malburns 4, mpesce 45, andrewbarnett 6, stilgherrian 6, kcarruthers 11 and JonoH 5 …
To do this yourself without needing a degree in pure math (or an online calculator - to be done by someone). Here is a simple 3 step DIY version…
- Divide followings by 3 and then add this to followers - write the number down
- Divide followers by updates - write the number down
- Multiply the two numbers above and divide by ten - et voila. Your very own TweetGQ
Shoot me down in flames or raise me on your shoulders
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SilkCharm
rt @ackygirl: you will learn young jedi… the power of the twitter is stronger than the time invested
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Warlach
“Ask not what your Followers can do for you, but what you can do for your Followers!”
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john_chr
Another search engine for twitter and identi.ca (plus eight other Laconica based sites bleeper.de, army.twit.tv, lareta.net, linuxoutlaws.net, sufficetosay.frontrowcrew.com, micro.ciarang.com, fun.ohhh.no, and pawwer.com) is http://tweetscan.com
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NathanaelB
If you don’t reply to someone’s tweet straight away remember to give context in your response so they know what tweet you were responding to. (hash)-tagging can be a useful shortform way of doing this
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NathanaelB
Use Twitter Search http://search.twitter.com to catch all mentions of your name and Twitter handle and respond where appropriate.
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lebard
Twitter picks holes in sock puppets
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mspecht
there are no smart companies only smart conversations
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mryap
careful of what you tweet. Your tweet update are reflected on Google search within 24 hour.
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mikiszikszai
Read Federated Media’s marketing primer on conversation marketing. These principles all apply to twitter.
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SilkCharm
Here is a service that looks at your “Twitter Influence“
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john_chr
Also, remember that twitter is a Public Conversation - so don’t be abusive as it will likely have unintended consequences. If you are going to harsh on someone be prepared to back it up with a blog post or further tweets explaining your views. Context collapses on the internet which will almost guarantee that your tweets will be taken out of context.
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ssharwood
Remember that your head office may well tweet when the rest of the world sleeps. Your twitter presence could be missing plenty of its audience!
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fifikins
Be like Stephen Fry. Follow his openness and have a purpose behind using twitter.
