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TTT: Two Twitter Tips

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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2900 pounds of Ass

 

 


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7 responses to “TTT: Two Twitter Tips”

  1. Ryan Critchett Avatar

    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.

    1. Spiro Pappadopoulos Avatar

      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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    2. Spiro Pappadopoulos Avatar

      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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  2. Kraig Karson Avatar

    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

    1. Spiro Pappadopoulos Avatar

      Thanks, glad to make you smile. It is too often that I run across these simple things getting messed up…

  3. bridgetstraub.com Avatar

    As someone new to twitter, this is very helpful. Thanks.

    1. Spiro Pappadopoulos Avatar

      That what I wrote it for. What’s your handle, I am @spirocks