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Everyone is talking about Twitter. Ultimate time waster or business tool?

It seems like everyone is talking about twitter these days.  I got wind of it a year ago from a fellow named Ed Dale.  Originally it was for friends to know what friends were doing.  As with any mass adoptable tool, internet savy people started to use it, then students, then business people, now moms, dads, preachers, weather people, and finally your grand mother are on twitter or asking about it.   Too funny.  

So is Twitter a waster of massive time.  For the unexperienced, yes completely.  I call it the faster facebook.  Users are limited to a 140 characters on any single message.   You can update in real time and anyone following you can see what you are up to and also add links to particular news stories, web pages and so on.  I tend to like SEO stuff and there are people posting some great stuff on this topic.

Advanced twitting includes re-tweeting where you repost other twitterer’s content and the use of # hashtags, like #cnn or #msn or #Mkt for trading news.  Also as you move deeper into Twiiter-dumb you will find many apps and tools to increase your Tweetability. Don’t get sucked in… Your friends on Facebook will miss you.  Also on the tech side, you can twiiter from your cell phone which is super cool.

I see the value in Twitter if you have high quality content or if you come accross cool stuff online and want to share.  Its also good to stay in contact with your customers.    Here are a few do and don’t that I have gleaned (is that a word) along the way. малолетки бесплатно порно

  1. Add only high quality real people.
  2. Delete people that post constantly or who over post useless content ie travel discounts
  3. Post 70% topic related, 30% life stuff, ie going to see a movie, travelling to spain this summer. 
  4. Check the links you post to make sure they work.
  5. Post at least 1-2 times per day. 
  6. Have a postive attitude in your posts, smile while you write.
  7. Don’t post stupid stuff and remove people that do to keep your twiiter experience very high quality.
  8. Keep your followers higher than your follows. I use tweepular.com to remove people that don’t follow me.  This is a key factor in appearing like an expert/someone of value that people want to follow.  Ideally maintaining 1 to 4, following to follows, 1 to 3 is ok.  You can see this on my personal Twitter.
  9. Don’t go for massive numbers of people.  Get the right people and your following with grow just on its own.  However, I do like www.mytweetfollowers.com to find a few extra cool friends.
  10. Follow me at www.twitter.com/shawn_powell
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