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By: Blake Waddill

Blake Waddill — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:44:13 +0000

Man, I’m dumb to have not even mentioned that, but it is a huge deal.

Only self promoting is about the most toxic thing you can do for your twitter account. No one wants to follow someone who is always self promoting, and not giving back to the community. I try my best to give love in as many places as possible!

By: Harsh Agrawal

Harsh Agrawal — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:04:53 +0000

Blake some interesting and useful point here. One most common mistake any newbie make including me (I did ;) ).. is promoting only self written article..and cluttering the meaning of social from media… This should be avoided from the first place…

By: Blake Waddill

Blake Waddill — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:46:06 +0000

I think monetizing your Twitter revolves around doing it tastefully. If you post a sponsored tweet once every 50-100 tweets, I don’t think it is a big deal. Multiple sponsored tweets a day seems a little unreasonable.

I’m also not particularly fond of using scripts for following/following back (I do not auto follow back, I look at the tweets and decide if I think they tweet about things I care about).

I really like Tweepi because I can see how active people are before I follow them.

Every once in a while I do run a script to unfollow everyone who isn’t following me because I don’t really want to be following people who aren’t interested in me.

It will be interesting to see how Twitter Lists shakes everything up with this follow back frenzy.

By: jan_geronimo

jan_geronimo — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:54:11 +0000

I’ve seen tweeters who monetize their twitter accounts. Funny, they only have a couple of hundred followers. Talk about alienating the few people you have. If you’re interested in promoting your own brand and getting a community of readers, why alienate them?

I hate people who use scripts to follow and unfollow people on the assumption that they’d bulk their Twitter stats this way. Some of those who unfollowed me? Trust me, they’d be back following me again after a couple of days. WTH – and these people say they care about their brand. Well, they’re shooting themselves in the foot with their inane stunts.

By: Blake Waddill

Blake Waddill — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:58:37 +0000

Now that lists are available to me, I’m a little more open to who I’m willing to follow.

Regardless, I don’t think following back every person that follows me or mass following random people is a good use of my time.

I have had really good success finding good Tweeters using Tweepi. Hopefully you can have as much success as I have had!

By: Ben Lang

Ben Lang — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:26:42 +0000

Thanks for sharing twitter lists tips!

By: Blake Waddill

Blake Waddill — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:00:52 +0000

No kidding. Occasionally, I’m guilty of retweeting something that I think looks good only to read it later and see that it was dumb.

That’s definitely a bonus rule worth following.

By: Blake Waddill

Blake Waddill — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:59:26 +0000

You are right that twitter does not allow you to post duplicate tweets, but all you have to do is change 1 character. (That does put you at risk of annoying your followers if you do it too much).

Scheduling Tweets is awesome. It is 100% worth the extra 5 seconds it takes to do. I use HootSuite, but there are other great programs too.

By: PJ

PJ — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:24:54 +0000

I find it ironic that this article is being retweeted by people who are breaking some of these rules. There should be another, READ BEFORE YOU RETWEET. LOL