I love twitter, it has put me in touch with amazing people related to my businesses and connected me in ways I can not be thankful enough for. It is a service that is under appreciated and misunderstood by many. It drives incredible amounts of traffic to websites and blogs. In many ways that traffic has been mis-calculated as evidenced in this recent TechCrunch post: Twitter Drives 4x as Much Traffic as You Think. Here’s Why … all in all it is a very important piece of your marketing puzzle.
Here are two twitter tips to get the most out of your effort:
So remember these two things:
1) Know your twitter character limit
Here is the formula: 140 – # of characters in your twitter username – 4 = Your character limit
So for me: 140 – 8 (spirocks) – 4 = 128 which is my character limit.
2) Be aware of how your tweets come out of third party apps
If you use third party apps that are linked to your twitter account, specifically news readers, rss forwarders, smartphone photo apps, etc make sure you vet out how the tweets are composed. Some do better jobs than others, they may be annoying for your following to click through, they may not respect the 140 character limit, or other less than ideal results.
Here is a humorous one I saw this morning:
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7 responses to “TTT: Two Twitter Tips”
Huge points man. This is a big deal and in many cases seems to be the difference between a retweet and… not!
On a separate, unrelated note, love how you did a video here man. It so gives people an inside look at HOW you really are in person, which can’t be fully translated through your writing. I already feel more comfortable with you.
Solid stuff.
Thanks Ryan I can’t stress the length of tweet issue enough, if you are
constructing messages for marketing purposes, not doing so to facilitate
retweets is a losing strategy.
Just got a new logitech c910 camera and wanted to mess around with it. Plan
on doing more of it as I move forward.
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Thanks Ryan I can’t stress the length of tweet issue enough, if you are
constructing messages for marketing purposes, not doing so to facilitate
retweets is a losing strategy.
Just got a new logitech c910 camera and wanted to mess around with it. Plan
on doing more of it as I move forward.
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great tips.. and my stomach hurts from laughing on the bacon post. thanx for sharing. you’re a breath of fresh air in the mental whitewash that permeates social media
Thanks, glad to make you smile. It is too often that I run across these simple things getting messed up…
As someone new to twitter, this is very helpful. Thanks.
That what I wrote it for. What’s your handle, I am @spirocks