Twitter Do’s and Don’ts

I get the idea for this post from Chris Brogan’s recent post on Twitter Etiquette Guide. I don’t totally agree with that article and I thought I will post my own Do’s and Don’ts on Twitter.

Do’s:

1. Do have a personal and interesting profile.
2. Do have a nice picture.
3. Do post interesting tweets and don’t worry if all your followers like them. You can’t please everyone.
4. Do reply to @mentioned, it is a good way to build relationship.
5. Do ignore direct messages which you don’t have time read or reply them, especially auto messages
6. Do retweet good stuff and pay credit
7. Do recommend other people using for example #follow friday
8. Do unfollow spammers ( you don’t need me to tell you that)
9. Do pay credit when someone tweeted something you like
10. Do keep your tweets shorter than 120 characters so it is retweetable.

Don’ts:

1. Don’t use fake profile.
2. Don’t spam
3. Don’t take someone’s link and tweet it as if it is yours (use retweet instead)
4. Don’t try to reply all direct messages, you will on on twitter all day
5. Don’t be rude
6. Don’t post too many marketing tweets (1 per day is maximum for me)
7. Don’t use auto messages to promote a product (directing them to your other social network profile is ok)
8. Don’t use any twitter train or software to artificially increase your followers number
9. Don’t retweet something without looking at the link
10. Don’t need to react negatively when someone post too many marketing tweets, simply unfollow! No one force you to follow anyone, you have a choice!

Do you agree?  Please comment.

To Your Success,

Ket-Sang Tai

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