My Favorite Twitter Apps

Posted in: Blog, Marketing, Social Media, Twitter by Christian on February 5, 2011 | No Comments

When I first started using Twitter there weren’t any third party applications. You went to twitter.com, logged into your account and hit the refresh button for updates with other people you knew which is kind of ironic because a lot of people that get into twitter miss think they need to get a ton of followers to make a different and often miss the most basic strategy. When it comes to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn go local and then build your network national or international. Unless you are well known in the marketing world or a CEO of a major company people in another state or another country the less likely you are to interact with offline and make a business deal. That being said you never know where your next conversion will come from so be sure to engage others interested in you or something you have a common thread with whether it is from a personal or professional viewpoint. Read more…

10 Simple Rules of Etiquette for Twitter

Posted in: Social Media, Twitter by Christian on August 1, 2009 | No Comments

Simple Criteria for me to follow and engage you:

1. Picture of yourself or likeness.

2. Where you live. iPhone/Google longtitude/latitude numbers don’t count. That makes more work for me. I’m not going to stalk you.

3. Give me a description. It can be work or non work related. What you are passionate about will come through in your tweets.

4. Don’t auto-dm me upon follow. It is like getting a form letter from my congress person. Their secretary wrote it and stamped used the signature stamp.

5. Half your tweets must be @replies or RTs that you share common beliefs in. If you’re just tweeting information you’re traditionally old. You still haven’t got the point of Twitter. This includes you major news sources (CNN, WSJ, et al). You are not exempt if you’re not listening.

6. Change your Twitter background. Doing so shows you are a creative person and we all are creative in our own way. You could draw stick figures and I would find it better than someone who doesn’t take the time to care about public perception.

7. DON’T YELL. It won’t get your point across anymore.

8. Don’t RT major news all the time for the sake of karma. Nine times out of ten everybody else I am following has RTed the same thing too. Common bonds = common interests = common knowledge.

9. Your tweets must make sense. It is a 140 characters. Make sure you still use the lessons taught to you by your HS grammar teacher. I’m not going to click on a tweet with a bunch of buzz words thrown together.

10. Be yourself. Living in a PC world takes a lot of work. It forces you to live within certain constrains. It limits honest, openness, and ultimately communication. This is where you have to know your audience and find the balance between being funny and sarcastic or being mean and hurtful.