I love it, millions of people love it, everyone freakin loves it, and those that don’t love it, just don’t get it, but they eventually will.
I’ve posted about twitter a number of times before and once I hit publish on this post, it’ll make twitter my most posted about social media platform (which really doesn’t count for much seeing as I’m still fairly green to this blogging gig 
).
I have to make an admission which I’m not proud off.
Early on in, I used an automatic twitter app to get followers. I thought this was cool at the start, but now it’s a pain in the rear. Subsequently I’ve started to unfollow a lot of people that basically tweeted junk and this in itself is a huge waste of time. Lesson learnt and never again.
However, I have since created a private group of people that I am genuinely interested in following. I’m finding this experience much more pleasant and some of the information tweeted has been quite valuable, but now I’m noticing another annoying trend. Scheduled, useless and repeat tweets (As opposed to retweets which are cool). This to me is the new spam! It’s annoying, it’s frustrating, and in some cases I’m beginning to lose respect for the tweeter.
Quotes of the day, motivational sayings, and twitterers tweeting 10 times in a minute (this is no joke), honestly, is plainly ridiculous. Sometimes it’s nice to read the “pep up” message when things are getting tough, or reading that quote that just fits into your frame of mind at the time, BUT NOT ALL OF THE FREAKIN TIME!!!
Let me give you another example. I follow a particular person on twitter known for being connected within the social media space. The tweets she posted at the beginning were excellent, and I read almost every article and gained a lot of valuable information. Then all of a sudden the scheduled tweets happened. A flood of content came through within a short period of time and this happened day in day out (think 20+ tweets a day). Instead of looking at each tweet and reading the articles attached, I simply gave up and said “screw it”. So not only will she potentially lose me as a follower, but she is doing the articles she tweets, a huge injustice as I am clearly losing interest in her opinions.
Now I know there are no set rules for twitter. Tweet as much as you like, for as long as you like, on whatever it is you like but just be mindful of the following 3 things:
1. Try not to tweet like your life depends on it.
I don’t understand why some people feel the need to tweet the second they find articles. Sure if you find a good one, share it. If you find 10 good articles, share those too. But not at the same time, spread them out while sharing the love. I wonder if these people actually read the articles at all. If you tweet out 10 articles about social media within seconds, its either you’re speed reading them or haven’t read them at all. And I’ve checked the dates and times on these articles, they haven’t been sat on, they’ve just been written! One day someone should just write a totally rubbish article (I’ve actually read a couple) with all the SEO smarts just to see if it will automatically get sent around. That should flush out the auto forwarders that think that quantity rules over quality. Don’t be an auto forwarder.
2. Avoid useless messages.
Quotes, motivational sayings and general advice. I avoid these like the plague and I might actually overlook a genuine tweet that you may have of any worth, thinking it’s another useless message. Everyone’s doing it and it’s just annoying and time wasting. In retaliation I feel like scheduling a tweet that simply says “I’m just fine at the moment, please leave me alone.” If someone would create a “no junk tweet” app, I would be the first to buy. Don’t dilute your core message with fillings of “feel good” and “more power to your” tweets, it’s hurting you, and it’s hurting your brand.
3. Be a person and not a billboard.
Tell me about something. Don’t sell me about something. I don’t use twitter to get sold to. If you can give me some useful information which may be linked to your money site, that’s fine. I might actually buy something, but don’t tell me I need something when I clearly don’t.
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