AUSTRALIA: Journalists on Twitter and 50 Celebrities on Twitter
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SilkCharm
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rogerchristie
If you follow someone, introduce yourself – let them know where and how you found them and start that unique conversation on the right foot. Just like meeting someone in the real world, you don’t see someone and start following them around from a safe distance – walk up and say hello. You’ll have better relationships with your followers because of it.
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SilkCharm
Twitter Strategy Chart
Cool no?
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simontsmall
Like any social media talk as if you were standing infront of the person or people. Be a human about it.
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SilkCharm
Journalists: don’t spam people on Twitter asking for their contacts e.g. in Mumbai then disappear never to be heard of again until the next disaster/crisis. That’s not engagement, that’s just using people. We break the News, but not so you can sell more ads or get more eyeballs.
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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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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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