A Twitter Beginners Strategy

Twitter has exploded in terms of number of users and the wave of traffic that comes from this particular social network with no signs of slowing down. With 140 characters you are able to tell your followers basically anything that you want from what you had to lunch to what you are working on at the moment. Twitter is an amazing tool but like any tool it needs to be used carefully.

1. Twitter Followers – Depending on the reason why you are active in Twitter should dictate the type of followers you have. If you are just interested in conversing with a large number of people than it is fine if you follow everyone and anyone. However if your Twitter is for business than you need to be a lot more selective. There are a number of Twitter management tools that will enable you to put forward a Twitter search as specific as a user who lives in a Waco Texas who is interested in making money online. If you are looking for potential customers you need to make sure that is who you are following and that is who is following you.

2. Spamming Fellow Tweeters – Spam is not cool on any level and at any social network so you have to remember to space out your “ads” or else your followers are going to be running to the hills. I personally try to use a one in ten or even a two in ten where the majority of my links are interesting news and the others are specific to the product I am trying to promote. The last thing that you want is all of your Twitter posts to sound the same.

3. Cold Selling Does Not Work – If you are thinking I am going to get 10,000 Twitter followers and than bombard them with sales messages which will lead to a massive increase in my bank account I hate to break it to you but this will not work. A bazillion different reasons but the main two being the economy is still struggling and people have become much more blind to ads. Twitter is like anything else you need to back up what you say and when your competing against so many other people your Tweets need to stand out to get attention.

4. Time – It takes a lot of time to build up a loyal list of followers and many website owners for whatever the reason count on Twitter as their only promotional tool which is a mistake. Twitter can pay off huge but it is dangerous to put all of your eggs in one basket.

In closing Twitter is an explosive tool that shows know sign of slowing down but it is essential that you realize from the site what your main objective is to using this powerful tool.