15 Essential Twitter tips and Twitter Etiquette for 2010

Twitter is the one among the social networking sites that is the least personal in nature. Having a public profile means one is baring it all for the general consumption. And that is why it requires an altogether different mindset. These are some tips that I religiously follow in this medium.

1. You remain just a tweet away from disaster, a pink slip, and a broken heart. Always.
2. You do not follow everyone. And everyone will not follow you. Bear with it.
3. You follow individuals, and their eccentricities. Bear with them.
4. You should ensure a healthy balance between jokers and intellectuals in your timeline. You will need either of the two, Always!
5. Your follower count is just like stock prices – they move up and down – don’t take things to heart.
6. Your geographic location is important for just a few, some stalkers, and in some cases robbers too. Remember that.
7. Disagree with someone? Ignore. It’s just a tweet.
8. Like to jump in between conversations already happening? – use greasemonkey to know the context first. More Greasemonkey scripts here.
9. Individuals not in your time-zone need to be listed separately. You can easily know what they were up-to when you slept.
10. Individuals that follow, then un-follow and then follow you again need your attention. Block Them. Save them the exertion. Like Seriously!
11. Be Useful – if you find a bot – Block and Report it to spam. Save others from the menace.
12. Want to repeatedly promote a blog post of yours – You Can, because your tweets have a low shelf life. But ensure that you tweet about other stuff and converse in between duplicate tweets.
13. Be a Reliable Link Sharer – Use bit.ly for shortening URLs. Bit.ly uses Google’s Safe Browsing API, SURBL, SpamCop, and 3 more services to protect readers from malicious URLs
14. Converse; or stay shut and learn from reading conversations.
15. I will not ask you to (1) retweet if you like this post or (2) follow me. That is your choice. Let’s seek some Organic and Voluntary Growth.

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~by Nitin Srivastava

Nitin espouses to be a libertarian, he loves to read & learn about anything (make that everything). He has a keen sense of observation, and can tell about the guns in ladies' purses by just looking at their heels. Do you get the drift?

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