Twitter Bits and Tips

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38 Twitter bits and tips

1. Open an account and use Twitter Search to listen for for your shop  
    name, the competitons' names, and words that relate to    
     your business or potential customers.
   2. Add a your picture or your shop avatar.  Keep branding in mind.
   3. Tweet people about THEIR interests, too.
   4. Point out interesting things about your business not just about you.
   5. Share links to neat things in your community.
   6. Be helpful.  Give tips.
   7. Don't be spammy about your products.
   8. Tweet about other people and their space.
   9. Be human and get personal.
   11. Instead of answering the question, “What are you doing?”, answer
     the question, “What has your attention?”
  12. pair up with someone else and Retweet each other.
  13. When promoting a blog post, ask a question or explain what’s coming next, instead of just dumping a link.
  14. Ask questions, take a poll ask for opinions.
  15. Follow interesting people. Find out who they follow and follow those people as well.
  16. Tweet about other people’s stuff. Make people feel good.
  17. When you DO talk about your stuff, make it useful. Give advice, blog posts, pictures, etc.
  18. Visit people's websites or blogs in their bios, leave comment and tweet about your comment or that blog.
  19. Don’t blow your own horn too much.
  20. Blow other's peoples horn.
  21. You don’t have to read every tweet.
  22. You don’t have to reply to every @ tweet directed to you
  23. Use direct messages for 1-to-1 conversations if there is no value for the whole world to read it.
  24. Use services like Twitter Search to make sure you see if someone’s talking about you.
  25. 3rd party programs like Tweetdeck and Twhirl make it a lot easier to manage Twitter.
  26. Don't play at tweeting when you have serious work to do.
  28. Learn quickly to use the URL shortening tools like TinyURL so your
        tweet is still short enough to RETWEET.
  29. If someone doesn't like your tweets suggest they unfollow you.
  30. Commenting on others’ tweets, and retweeting what others have to
        say is a great way to build networking friends.
 31. Twitter can be addictive don't let it take over your life
  32. Twitter  away from your creating time.
  33. Have a plan about what and to whom you are tweeting as it relates  
        to your marketing.
   33. Twitter doesn’t replace email and other methods of marketing.
   34. Twitter helps one organize great, instant meetups (tweetups).
    35. Twitter breaks news faster than other sources.
    36. Twitter brings great minds together, for brainstorming.
    37. Twitter gives you great opportunities to learn something new  
          everyday.
    38. twitter gives you great opportunities to teach new things to many  
         other people very quickly.