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<\/a>Tweeting tips for Twitter<\/p><\/div>\n
The first thing I did wrong was to follow more than 250 people \u2014 most of whom then followed me back. Reciprocity is important to tweeple, who often DM, \u201cThanks for the follow.\u201d DM, for the uniformed, means direct message.<\/p>\n
Before too long, I came to the realization that my twitter feed was cluttered with tweets that really didn\u2019t interest me. Why did I need to know that Joe Blow was enjoying scrapple in a diner across town, or that Suzie Smith was watching the Smurfs?<\/p>\n
I eventually became so buried in tweets, I felt like Tippi Hedren in the 1952 Hitchcock movie. \u201cThis is for the birds,\u201d I thought. When I read the following tweet: \u201cItch, itch, yawn, poot, smile,\u201d it pushed me over the brink, so I decided to thin the flock before I contracted some communicable disease like chirpies or something. I was getting a contact high on hash tags, for goodness sakes!<\/p>\n
Thinning the Flock<\/strong><\/p>\nOne of the best tools that I\u2019ve discovered for cleaning up a twitter feed is Tweepi. Tweepi will show you who has been inactive, whom you are following, who isn\u2019t following you and how you can delete the tweeps you no longer find useful, like Mr Pooter.<\/p>\n
The only thing I regret is that you can\u2019t hit one button at the top and do a wholesale deletion. Apparently Twitter swooped down on them and pecked that priceless option off the table, which annoys me because somehow I ended up following a whole bunch of people I don\u2019t know and while I\u2019m waiting for support to fix it, my list continues to grow.<\/p>\n
To add insult to injury, these tweeple don\u2019t even speak my language, literally. So now my timeline is bogged down by foreign tweets as well.<\/p>\n
Using Twitter Constructively<\/strong><\/p>\nI like to sometimes refer to Twitter, as Fritter, because it is a good way to fritter away the time, but it doesn\u2019t have to be.\u00a0 If you\u2019re resourceful and you have a small business, for instance, you can use this social media app to your advantage by offering followers special deals to drive more business your way.<\/p>\n
Marketers can use Twitter to promote their SEO services by providing links to compelling content. Just google SEO to find out ways to go about using social media to your marketing advantage and keep in mind that search engines recognize public Twitter accounts only, so don\u2019t lock down that account if you want to be noticed on Google.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re an individual, Twitter can be useful if you choose carefully and tweet wisely, but if you find yourself unsuccessfully tending an unruly flock, hey, you can always fly the coop, pick a new name and start over!<\/p>\n
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How to Use Twitter Constructively When Twitter alighted upon the scene, it seemed pretty innocuous. Ushered in on the wings of a cute little blue birdie, this free, social networking service enabled users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters. Certainly manageable, wouldn\u2019t you say? On first blush, it seemed that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[935],"tags":[753,754,1149,826],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-media-icantinternet-en","tag-social-media-2","tag-social-media-marketing","tag-tweet","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/tweeting-twitter-300x225.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbkKxJ-uv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beheydt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}