Digital Marketing, Social Media, Web 2.0, Web Analytics, Web Design

by Dawser Al Hadidi

I have a feeling that this article may result in part 2 of the same subject so I will call it 1.0.

This is to all Tweeps, old, new and people who are thinking of becoming Tweeps. Twitter is a microbloging social media platform offering 140 space of character to share your thoughts, ideas, issues you feel strongly about, experiences, daily happenings, anything worth sharing with the public. Not to forget you can use Twitter for marketing your brand and build awareness for your business. The 140 characters are good enough to make a point!

Anyways let’s get to the point; to understand Twitter, think of it as part of your social life, there are social ethics that govern it, but with less facial expressions at least for now! More exposure and wider range of social reach.

Twitter Social Rules:

Following & Followers

1. Follow your good followers
2. Send Thank you for new followers – You can use this automated service to action a “thank you message” for all who follows you (www.tweetlater.com)
3. Get to know your followers and interact as much as possible.

Tweeting:

A term applies to the 140 character you enter in the “what are you doing?” text box and send out to your fellow Tweeps.

1. You do not have to answer the “What are you doing?” question, just speak your mind, share knowledge and add value to the Twitterommunity.
2. Tweet on daily basis.
3. Do not tweet too much, or too little, you have to keep your followers engaged.
4. Keep intervals between your tweets, at least 5 seconds.
5. Ensure your Tweets are understandable, logical, and reasonable; this is what will keep them following you and increase your followers.
6. Make your tweets interesting, even if you want to tweet about taking your lunch you can make it exciting and engaging.
7. Do not tweet too much personal stuff, it’s not only unexciting it is also unsafe, there are the places for personal chats.
8. Retweet Good Tweets – Simple Command “RTspace@Username” and add the Tweet you liked.
9. Thank Who Retweets your Tweets.

Follow Friday

1. A sweet way to recommend good Tweeps for others to follow.
2. Mention #FollowFriday each Friday, simple write #FF and @username/s of the Tweeps you want to recommend
3. Thank who mentions you on #FF.

@replies and Direct Messages (DM)

The difference between @replies and DM, is the latter is private no one except the recipient can access it. The @replies can be public and will appear on the “@username” on the right side bar of your Twitter page, it also always appears in search results.

1. Check your @replies frequently

2. Reply to all @replies, since these are public and others may read it then try your best to make it understandable. I know it is challenging with the 140 character limits and that’s why I said try your best.

Only for Famous Tweeps

A note to VIPs, celebrities, companies, and businesses all must listen to other Tweeps, these Tweeps represent their fans or customers, Twitter is all about interacting, and you cannot interact without listening. You are on Twitter to deliver a message, support your service, satisfy your fans, or enforcing a global change; whatever it may be, you need to remember that you did put yourself on Twitter to get closer to the public, the way to do it is very simple:

1. Check your @replies frequently
2. Search using #subject, your name, your company name the issue your support I.E #Hunger you will find what is being tweeted about you, your service and subject you call for, then simply interact using the @reply command.

And Tweep please remember, if you got into a twitterugment make sure you listen respect what the other tweep is saying and make your point clear.

To understand the lingo used in my article visit http://business.twitter.com/basics/what-is-twitter/

What is Twitter?
It is a micro-blogging platform, allowing users to update their status by publishing 140 character message. It is one of the most power social network in my opinion it delivers messages short and simple!
Tweets refer to the message, so Tweeting is the act of messaging, and Tweeps, are the those who tweet!

Advice: You better write something that your followers is interested to hear from you!