So here is a list of things I personally think you should not do on Twitter, it really is up to personal choice. Some of these things will be suggested as must do's by others.... but I will give my reasons for this.
Don't thank followers for following you!
Yes I know, I see it all the time too and I looked into it and did a lot of reading about it.
After all of this my thoughts are what a stupid thing to do. There are places you can sign up with that will automatically send out tweets to everyone that follows you thanking them for following.
This just fills up everyone's home page with absolutely useless tweets and it is annoying.
I find it annoying and irritating so I am sure everyone else will too.
But like I said some people really recommend doing this!
Don't send out automatic PM's!
Yes there are also places you can sign up with that will automatically send a private message to every new follower.
This is the most annoying thing on Twitter! I also think it is just rude personally.
These messages thank me for following and ask me to also follow on Twitter, or to visit their website or whatever it is.
These messages are impersonal and I think it is rude to just send out an automated message asking me to sign up elsewhere too.
If I like you and I find you interesting I will find you on my own and follow you everywhere.
So what I have noticed is that this is a highly debated topic. Apparently the conversion rate for these messages is very high. This just isn't my style thanks and when I get messages I just open my inbox and click on the "mark all as read" and I don't look at any of them.
All the messages I receive on Twitter is this automated spam BS and I dislike it immensely.
Don't Tweet in Big Bursts of Activity!
Don't come onto Twitter once a day and be highly active for an hour. This will just send out a whole whack of tweets and activity in a small space of time which will spam people and irritate them. They will unfollow you very quickly.
What I do is keep Twitter open in a window and every hour or so go and Retweet something I like or start a conversation with someone. Keep it easy going to start off with and build up your engagement.
Oh and if you want to connect with WA members on Twitter check out this blog post of mine:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/lynnehuy/blog/twit...
I really hope you have found this tutorial helpful, as far as Twitter goes I am not an expert and still quite a newbie so I welcome comments and feedback on this tutorial.
How many Twitter followers do you have now? Share your goals of how many you want and by when!
Today I have (20 January 2016) I have 2093 Twitter followers... so my goals will be (and I will let you know if I achieve these goals):
31/01/2016 2500 Twitter Followers
29/02/2016 3500 Twitter Followers
31/03/2016 4500 Twitter Followers
15/04/2016 5000 Twitter Followers
So that is about 250/ week... let's see if this is possible? Feel free to follow me @LynneHuysamen
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I suppose my content is better now after all this training... but it is still the worst quality of the lot.
I won't count LinkedIn because I don't even know how it works hahaha. I am on it, and I share to it but I honestly haven't a clue...
Do you have any other suggestions?
Ok so let's try this again. I think you should sign up for Tweet Jukebox asap, this will keep fun and interesting tweets coming on a regular basis. I think I have them scheduled for 3 times a day? Can't remember really.
Then with regards to engaging with others, the same policy applies here as it does to quality comments. Click on their link, scan their blog and leave a thought out and quality reply to their tweet that shows you have read their content. Help them out like you would like to receive help. If you do this as opposed to "hey thats cool" I promise you that that person will most likely do the same for you asap.
Then with following people, I'm not talking about following one new person a day. I'm talking about following like 50 in a day :) But make it no more than 100 daily. It's not that hard. Look for a user that you really enjoy that has loads of followers and then scan them all and every one that looks interesting and in your niches click follow.
I promise you that if you follow 50 people a day you will get a good amount of followers and very fast.
Oh and every now and then I go into the list of people I follow and unfollow a whole whack of them that aren't following me, not all the don't follow me but I try and keep the amount of people that I follow and that follow me around the same.
Thanks for the tips. I am definitely not following 50 people a day. It seems so time consuming being on twitter. I will try following more though and see how that works. I also find that so many people are just retweeting others. I think some accounts are set up just to retweet people.
Question about Tweet Jukebox. What kind of quotes are these? I assume they would pertain to many niches? I guess I should take a look at the site.
Nice going... I don't think I even have 100 Pinterest followers but really I don't even go on there, I just pin to it and leave it. I suppose as with any social network you need to spend a bit of time to get anywhere :)
