- To quote Kurt Vonnegut: "Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time is wasted."
- Periodically review your last few pages of tweets. Are you follow-worthy?
- Don't make people click twice to get to content. If needed, switch the link in a retweet while still crediting the original referrer.
- The value of retweets to your network are those that cross social circles. RTs are of no use to those who have already seen the initial tweet.
- Be a bridge by sharing interesting links that significant numbers of your followers have probably not seen before.
- Use a service like bit.ly for your links so that you can monitor the number of clicks they receive. It's a much more dependable indicator of the value of what you share than retweets.
- Don't follow more people than you have time to read. This means you will eventually need to prune your followers.
- Stay away from flame wars. Don't respond to trolls. Block as needed.
- Have fun.
- Follow me.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
My Top Ten Rules For Responsible Twitter Use
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2 comments:
these are great rules!
you can easily solve issues #3 and 4# by using the native Twitter Retweet feature. It really works well.
I solved issue #7 by creating a few themed lists.
I only follow in my main timeline less than 200 users: the other ones I put in themed lists, that I check less often than my main timeline.
I also use the web-based tDash interface that keeps the read/unread count - it also can reverse the messages order.
Very useful when you stay away from Twitter for a brief time and you need to keep up.
Awesome rules... especially avoiding flame wars!
Lessons learnt from a while ago on that one lol.
I get aruond the "following too many" issue by organising into lists...so much easier to keep track that way!
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