3 Top Tips for Twitter

Are you using Twitter well? Here are a few simple rules that one should follow in order to have more success on Twitter.

Be present.

Make sure you are present with your Twitter presence.
There's nothing worse than seeing half a message in a Tweet that's been automatically generated via a Facebook status update. Twitter and Facebook have different languages, allow different length messages, have different tagging options, one has hashtags and the other doesn't. Linking your Twitter account with your Facebook Page can look lazy. Be present in the platform when you're using it, that way you can better use the features for each. At most, you might like to add an automated direct message that goes to new followers, but that should be the end of the automation.

Be consistent.

Spread your tweets over the week instead of posting all on one day.
If you only have a certain amount of time you can dedicate to checking Twitter, spread it out over the week instead of using the equivalent time in one day - for instance, do half an hour each day instead of three hours one day of the week. It will make you look more active, allow you to reply to people in a timely fashion, and give you more opportunity to engage users at different times of the week. You should be able to fit all of this into half-hour sessions over the course of a week.

Be accountable.

Twitter is a public space.
Anything you say is this space reflects on you, your brand, your grandma and your dog. And this can be held against you. Be careful what you say before you press "Tweet".