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:
- Do have a personal and interesting profile.
- Do have a nice picture.
- Do post interesting tweets and don’t worry if all your followers like them. You can’t please everyone.
- Do reply to @mentioned, it is a good way to build relationship.
- Do ignore direct messages which you don’t have time read or reply them, especially auto messages
- Do retweet good stuff and pay credit
- Do recommend other people using for example #follow friday
- Do unfollow spammers ( you don’t need me to tell you that)
- Do pay credit when someone tweeted something you like
- Do keep your tweets shorter than 120 characters so it is retweetable.
Don’ts:
- Don’t use fake profile.
- Don’t spam
- Don’t take someone’s link and tweet it as if it is yours (use retweet instead)
- Don’t try to reply all direct messages, you will on on twitter all day
- Don’t be rude
- Don’t post too many marketing tweets (1 per day is maximum for me)
- Don’t use auto messages to promote a product (directing them to your other social network profile is ok)
- Don’t use any twitter train or software to artificially increase your followers number
- Don’t retweet something without looking at the link
- 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
