Okay, so here’s the deal… We’re looking for reader questions, tips, and suggestions about Twitter. The goal is to create a mega-list resource (or three) for TwiTip readers. Darren often talks about pillar articles and list posts over at ProBlogger, and we’re thinking that we should have a few really great ones here at TwiTip.
So this is an official request to our dear readers to send in your best Twitter tips and suggestions – be it about external tools, tips for productivity on Twitter, or even reader questions that you’d like to have answered by the community. You can feel free to submit them either in the comments of this post, or by using our handy-dandy contact form.
We’re also openly accepting guest posts to be published here on TwiTip. You’ll receive a link to both your blog and your Twitter ID. Submit your pitch and I’ll send you the guidelines.
Let’s work together to make TwiTip an even bigger and better resource for Twitter users!
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@jasondrohn
My tip would be:
“If you use Twitter for your business, make sure to go through your competitors follower list, and follow them!
Think about it. If someone is following a competitor of yours – chances are they’d like your tweets/products/services, right?
About 30% of those people will follow you back pretty quickly…
– Jason Drohn
@twitte_rskins
If your looking at getting the most from Twitter in terms of gaining interest in your website I think either Tweetme or Backtype coupled with Digg as a URL shortner are the ways to go!
@rhyswynne
My tip:-
“When promoting an event on twitter, change your home town to the place that your event will be. That way, people searching for local people to them will follow you.”
I’ve done this a couple of times with my wrestling company, works like an absolute charm.
@CellPhones2009
I would love to see external apps that create services similar to facebook that not everyone is familiar with. Games using Twitter, etc.
@IlanBr
If you got something important to tweet/share – Use a “Send later” services. There are no time zones on Twitter
@moneywisemoms
I’ve sent this in on the contact form before, but I can’t find ANYTHING on the web about how to use Twitter to promote a local event. I want the quick/easy/widespread power of Twitter but without the world-wide-ness. Ideas?
@chrissponias
My tip: Don’t care so much about getting many followers, but about being followed by people that really care about what you are tweeting.
@__Deb
My best tip for Twitter? You get out of it what you put into it. I don’t just mean the karmic-return kind of thing about making an effort (which is true), but in terms of content, too. If all your tweets are spammish, “look at my website,” tweets, you’re likely only to attract spammish kinds of followers. If all your tweets are about details of your day (“Sitting on the porch.” “Ate breakfast.”) you will probably only see tweets from people writing about the same mundane details of their day.
In other words, it’s like a mirror–if you chat a little, spread interesting links, show yourself as an interesting, valuable PERSON, not only will you seem more worth following to other twitterers, but you’re going to attract the BEST kind of followers to share with!
@melindaklewis
I’m not sure how widespread the interest in this would be, but it’s somewhat similar to the question about promoting a local event on Twitter. I work with nonprofit orgs on advocacy related to social change, and, in advance of state legislative sessions starting again in January, I’m trying to help them figure out how their grassroots lobbyists can better use Twitter to provide updates on evolving policy debates and (more importantly) mobilize people to take action–it seems it’s going to take engaging followers in a slightly different way, though. I guess the broader theme here is how to use Twitter to move people to offline action in real time. I’d love great examples of that.
@chrissponias
Here is something that I believe should be improved:
I know that there is a Twitter application where we can follow our favorites separately, but I think that we should have this possibility also in the regular Twitter.
In the beginning, when I was not following so many people, I could easily read the messages I wanted to, while now with all the people I’m following, even without having real interest in what they say, I simply miss the messages I care about, and I don’t have time to look for them.
The truth is that after following so many people, I don’t like Twitter the way I used to before. In the past I used to open everyone’s page and see what it was about. Now, I’m following so, so many people that I’m not really following anyone. I’m only posting my articles and leaving. It became too messy…
And here is another problem: if we unfollow someone, they stop following us automatically too. This way we feel obliged to follow the people that follow us… I don’t know… I don’t like my page now.
In The past I liked it very much, because I would read what the people I cared about had to tell me. I was following only people that were teaching me something I didn’t know, and people that seemed to have something interesting to say, anyhow, and it was pleasant to open Twitter. Now I don’t feel the same… I don’t like it. It looks like a collection of ads to my eyes, and I simply want to leave… It lost its beauty.
I guess that the solution would be the positioning. It would be good if we could choose which tweets we wanted to read first of all, instead of reading the last one that someone we are following just posted.
In other words, it would be good if we could have priority. First of all, the tweets of my friend1, then of my friend 2, 3 and 4, and only then whatever message someone else may post. Could we do that? This way we wouldn’t need to modify the usage so much: only select the order of the messages that would be posted: first of all should appear in our page the messages of the people we care more about, then all the rest.
What do you think about my idea?
@Blogercise
Yeah lets work together as a community, can I suggest posting some ideas over here too: http://www.tweetsocial.com/
After all, we want to make the twitter community better
!
@chrissponias
Nice forum! I subscribed, and tweeted about it to my followers!