‘Blog’ Category
You’ve Written All Those Tweets – Now Be Careful What You Do With Them
Tweet I have read a blog post which estimates that the average length of an English word is 6 characters. As each Twitter post is limited to 140 characters and I have tweeted 2000 times I may have written as many as 46,666 words in the 2+ years I have been using Twitter. This comes [...]
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Don’t Feed Everything You Can Think Of Into Your Twitter Feed
I have to admit that I learnt this lesson the hard way. There are a number of services which allow you to automate tweets being fed into your Twitter stream. These services, such as location based games like Foursquare, generate automatic tweets which are shared with Twitter when you perform tasks in their application. The [...]
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Why You Should Never Say “SEO” Or “WordPress” In A Tweet
No online technology has stayed free from the grasp of spammers for long and Twitter is no different. There are a number of ways that people have harnessed the service for their own either slightly or overtly spammy purposes. The example of “never say the word SEO in a tweet” mainly falls into the slightly [...]
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It’s Nice To Know Whose Looking At What You’re Looking At
So you’ve got yourself set up with a Twitter account, people are following you back left, right and centre and you are engaging other Twitter users across the globe both about their projects and those that you are pursuing yourself. How do you work out whether anyone is actually interested in what you are putting into your [...]
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Some People Still Don’t Get Twitter Basics
Once you have signed up to Twitter chances are the first thing you are going to do is going and find people to follow. Once you have gone through the Suggested User List the next port of call may well be to search on Twitter search or Google for Twitter users that are interested in [...]
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If You Have The Words “Producer”, “Theatre” Or “Actor” In Your Bio I Will Follow You Back
This one pretty much speaks for itself but it basically links back to my first point, Twitter is only as useful as the people you follow. I am lucky enough to get quite a few followers, mainly I think because of a blog post I wrote a while ago originally titled 100 Theatre People To [...]
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Very Few People Are Being Innovative On Twitter But It Does Happen
I’ve outlined the two real ways I’ve seen people use their Twitter accounts in the tips above. Basically people seem to either be using their Twitter feeds as a fog horn, really just another broadcast mechanism to get their corporate message out there. There are people who are using Twitter to engage people in conversation, [...]
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Twitter Is Far More Fun If You’re Human
Its always nice if someone tweets as a person instead of as a corporate identity. There are times where this may not be the most workable way forwards of course. If you have established a Twitter feed which just duplicates your RSS feed and passes on links to stories on your blog / corporate site [...]
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Twitter Isn’t Facebook
They are two completely different platforms and, in my opinion, should be used for two completely different things. Because Facebook has the dual opt-in feature of you requesting someone’s friendship and them having to grant it, the way I choose to use Facebook is very much as a way of keeping in contact with friends, [...]
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Twitter Is Only As Useful As The People You Follow
I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this in at least two other posts on this blog but there is no harm in saying it again. Twitter is truly only as useful as the people that you follow. If you have a private feed and only follow two of your mates who also have a private feed [...]
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