“I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English – it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don’t let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don’t mean utterly, but kill most of them – then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.” (Mark Twain)
Twitter has just passed 5 billion tweets.
In celebration of that, I wanted to post some new tips for Twitter usage.
And if you’re not yet using Twitter, I would urge you to at least register your name because it will continue to drive opportunities for peers, partners and customers to connect and at some point you will have to come to the Twitter-dark side. And hey, it’s not really all that bad!
No one wants to know that you ate oatmeal for breakfast, but there’s alot of amazing people on Twitter that you might not otherwise ever connect with. Guess what? Those folks do want to know your insight and wisdom and who are you to not share it? Why not choose to use every tool you can to get your message out?
Are journalists on Twitter? Yes. Go to Muckrack.com and find them.
Is Twitter gaining over Facebook? Yes. Go here and read about it.
Here are 7 new tips for using Twitter:
1. Make sure you have a savvy bio line and that you include a clickable URL link in the bio itself.
2. Make sure you have your tweets connected to your Facebook account.
3. Make sure you do Friday Follows every Friday. #FF Use those to follow new people and champion people you follow.
4. Use your Twitter account to canvas your followers. Ask questions in your tweets and encourage people to answer them.
5. Always tweet a link out to your best blog posts. Don’t tweet something like, “Yet another brilliant blog post,” instead tweet out a strong excerpt from the blog post.
6. Don’t use RT (retweet) as the lazy person’s way to seem like you’re tweeting often. Use RTs sparingly and take special care to tweet out actionable insight from others you follow.
7. Tweet others as you would have them Tweet you. (Thanks Michael Murphy for that one.)
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