Conversationalize

Twitter is so addicting for it offers various reasons to tweet. You can talk to your far away friends, have a conversation with your officemates or update everyone absolutely everything.

But, having a freedom without limitations has negative effects. So learn how to limit your tweets. Know what to tweet. Don’t be fooled with the magic of posting your life on your timeline. It’s quite terrible to tweet all your private meetings, private activities and/or private sessions.

Quality tweets do not necessarily equate with factual tweets. So, don’t release information that will harm you and your career. Try to make it balance. Tweet something like you’re updating your status but not providing all the necessary information. Anyways, you’re followers may not like to know where you’ve been if it’s not interesting on their part.

On the early period of being in Twitter, the process of getting used to it might end up, being addicted to it.

Yes, it’s true! Like any other social networking sites, Twitter is addicting once you get familiarized with it. Plus, the fact that Twitter is a micro-blog, you’ll surely post updates of your life from time to time therefore flooding your timeline.

In Twitter, there’s no limit on how many tweets you’re allowed to send every day. But to make sure that you’re giving your followers the quality posts they needed, tweet an average of 20-30 messages a day. That will do. Or else, you might want to be tagged as a human spammer.

Twitter not only gives you power to announce to the whole world what are you up to. It also gives you freedom on how to be a good conversationalist.

In order to make new friends, it is nice that you’re also interested with them. So, try to be a nice guy to everyone. Check their posts and if you find them interesting, reply. There’s no other way to befriend someone than approaching them. And here on Twitter, replying on their tweets is the nicest approach.

But be careful in replying here and there. Just reply with those tweets that are answerable. Or, give a response to clarify something on someone else’s tweet, to give your feedback or to offer a help. Don’t just reply as if you’re an automated response application. It’s a big NO! NO! to someone misinterpreting your account as a spam. So please, avoid that! Try to mix up your tweets with daily stories, then replies to your Twitter friends and also some links that you might want to share with your followers.

Newbies in Twitter all wanted to have numerous followers so, by analysis; they follow everyone across the world wide web that they encounter.

Well, that’s pretty horrible. Spammers are always around the corner. For sure, you don’t want to follow a spammer’s account so better yet, follow these simple lines:

If you’re really into Twitter, wanted to gain new friends and be updated every now and then with what’s the world is going on, then, follow everyone in a condition that you check first their timelines.

Check if their tweets are not spams. Check if they are really humans not machines that send automatic tweets to spam your network. Check their bio and their networks – their followers and followings.

And for you not to be tagged as a spammer, tweet interesting stuff, share links and reply to other’s tweets.

Building your network in Twitter is just like building your network on other social networking sites. The only difference is that, here in Twitter, you’re always answering the magic question ‘What are you doing now?’

So, to attract more followers and to make new friends, make sure that you’re giving them quality updates. Prove to them that you’re a human and not a spammer that uses this tool to get into your accounts. Talk about something you like or something new to you, something cool. Feel free to use Twitter as if it’s your river of thoughts. This is, primarily, an advantage in having a Twitter account.

But, make sure that you’re not giving them pertinent information. Stalkers are out there. You might want to know how obsessed they are in getting important information. So, while knowing well your followers, think first before tweeting.

Everyone who’s online is in Twitter. So why not join the bandwagon?

It is understandable that it is hard to cope up with the twitting lifestyle. So, understanding how to tweet better and what to tweet is something that you should first learn.

Like every newbie to Twitter, it is advisable to you follow a lot of people. By doing this, you’ll realize the magic of timeline and the news that it brings through your network’s tweets. But following this advice is somewhat deceiving.

The process of following everyone is like spamming your own account. You don’t even know what their tweets are all about because you only follow them for the sake of getting a number of tweets on your timeline. But you forgot to check the quality of these tweets.

Follow only those accounts that are in your fields of interests, your circle of friends and family. You may invite more people to join Twitter if you haven’t seen some of your buddies on your network. In this case, you’re getting the point of what Twitter is all about – building social networks with timeline.

Remember, quality tweets are more important than having numerous of spam tweets that are not helping you grow in this cyber niche.

After we have written about the article about Twitter turning commercial at the latter half of this year, a question sprung up in my mind. Is Twitter really created for commercial purposes?
The main use of Twitter is to keep people connected. It lets an individual share a slice of his or her life with other people through short but frequent messages. It lets people see what is going on in another person’s life. But then with it being commercial nowadays, does this mean that Twitter lost its personal touch?

The great thing about Twitter used for businesses is that it lets businesses reach out to their audience in a more personal way. This is unlike the recorded messages in answering machines or formal emails. Twitter can reach even in an informal manner. But with a lot of people entering Twitter with business as the primary reason, I am now seeing Twitter turn into an impersonal, alienating medium.

But I guess it is inevitable. Sooner or later, businesses will enter Twitter anyway. But I guess this post is just a simple call to use the medium wisely. It is not a ready audience. I do not like Twitter to turn like my spam box in the future.

Twitter Cofounder Biz Stone has already released information that Twitter has been making improvements on the site with the goal of making it commercial. More and more businesses are using Twitter by the day and they thought that they should monetize on this by helping businesses get more out of Twitter with a fee.

This is where the premium accounts will come in. Twitter will now be providing businesses certified accounts so that their business names will not be taken by someone else. They have done this for celebrities and they will do this for businesses as well. Another is to set up an analytics system which will let people know how a certain account is faring on Twitter.

But as Biz Stone has said, these are just ideas. They will probably release a trial version so they can fully assess which features are the market willing to pay for. But we can expect the features to come out later on this year.