What’s going on in the wonderful world of Twitter this week?
I’m not professing to be a Twitterologist but I have learned a few things, mostly from doing things exactly wrong, about the funny new communication standard we call Twitter. (Or Microblogging)
I guess Microblogging isn’t a word a yet because WordPress thinks I misspelled it?
Anyway, it is a very popular new form of communication.. Makes sense on mobile phones and is very flexible and open… Deal with it. Let’s figure it out..
I’ve found that following tons of people, and if they follow you back, starting to chatter to them about your business is pretty useless. Everybody is doing that and it sucks.
I’m a reformed roboter, I’ll admit it. I was managing many accounts and loading up Tweetlater, now Social Oomph with jokes and quotes and crap and mixing in sales tweets and auto piloting stuff. That just pisses people off at the end of the day. You’ve got to connect with people and not run around yacking about your stuff..
If you don’t have time, hire somebody.. If you can’t afford a sharp, funny American drop me a line Brian@NewWebTalk.com I have some friends in the 3rd world that would love to manage a campaign for you on the cheap and do a great job!!
Twitter Tools of the Week!! www.HootSuite.com www.TweetMeMe.com www.Search.Twitter.com
People @omsummit @Dharmesh @Citywide.TV
Zen Twitter Philosophy Make friends. Be helpful. Have fun.
a little more Twitter chatter from an earlier post:
Twitter – Tweeting fundamentals
I sat in on a Twitter Talk with @Dharmesh Dharmesh Shah, Founder and CTO, Hubspot and creator of TwitterGrader. Mr. Shah was fun, funny, and extremely informative. I’m going to fish the slide show that went along but I gathered these strong bullet points;
- Register a personal Twitter handle and your business business along with variations of your business name and KEEP THEM SHORT!!
- Your profile has to answer right away “Why do I care?”
- Locate the stars in your industry and follow them.
- Robots suck.
- Don’t spam.
- Make it stupid easy to retweet.
- 1pm is the optimal twitter time.
- Ask for retweets.
- Don’t tweet about yourself.
Bit.ly is the best shortner for analytics Su.pr is another good one because you can get your tweets stumbled at the same time.
Here is a link to the slideshow:
http://www.slideshare.net/HubSpot/twitter-from-newbie-to-ninja
