Twitter is known and recognized as one of the best social networking sites throughout the world. It is a good medium for any serious blogger to get loads of quality traffic to his blog, if that person knows how to go well about it.
But, it is unfortunate that twitter doesn’t allow users to post more than 140 words per update, and that has gave bloggers the challenge of trying to make their messages as short as possible. Though, that teaches most of bloggers the ability to make their tweet as short and informative.
But, do you know that even, as short as your tweet is, it can make or break your online business? Yes, you can ruin your blog’s reputation with your tweets. And that is why you need to be more personal with your followers while posting updates, and follow the simple guide to Twitter’s effectiveness as explained in this post. And you shall reap the true benefits of using Twitter for your online business branding.
To become Uber-successful in life as a blogger, you need to know the act of doing what you love to do most at all times. Twitter is a platform where you post latest links of your blog post or other resourceful links on other websites for your followers to read and learn from.
It isn’t more than sharing latest and useful information with group of people who are very much interested in whatsoever you are willing to share with them - they are called followers on Twitter, unlike Facebook where they are called friends.
I have listed below seven twitter imperative steps you must take to enjoy staying on Twitter to the fullest while building your business, and creating a remarkable name for yourself with large follower-base.
So these seven steps are in form of advices for anyone who wants to build a large following on Twitter within a short possible time, and have them be loyal to all the information that you are offering them.
1. Watch your Speech & Grammar
When you are updating your Twitter profile, you must make sure that you check all the sentences in your tweet. As tiny as the message is, just 140 words, it could go along way to help you drive more people to your business page or blog.
And likewise, those short sentences could also convince people to have bad impression about your business, which could lead to them having no respect for your brand anymore as they used to do before.
You need to check your grammar and the way you build your sentences before hitting the update button. Never use grammar that would make people to check dictionary before they can understand your messages when you aren’t teaching linguistic on your blog. Say what you have to say in simple and plain English.
2. Don’t ever engage in insulting others, always stay calm
Never show any sign of attacking people with your tweets. Always behave yourself with those tiny tweets. Don’t ever engaged in ad hominem attacks on other Twitter users as this could lead make people lost the trust in you and your could also cost you of your good thinking reputation.
And in case the person you were tackling issue with was later found not guilty of the claims levelled against him, how would you want people to see you in the industry?
Taking issues too personal won’t help you anyway as a blogger. So you must learn to think straight, think about your follower’s trust in you, and never allow anything to defraud you of those trusts.
3. Don’t always respond to critics
Critics exist everywhere and you must disregard them if you want to move ahead in your industry. There are many trolls out there whose jobs are mainly to see what is good and refers to them as something too bad. So you must know that this group of people exists from the onset.
Knowing this will help you a lot in avoiding them in case they came on board, attacking you via Twitter. As a blogger, one person I can point to who could show you exactly how to deal with internet trolls is Pat Flynn; he had dealt with many internet trolls before, and you can learn a lot from him in dealing with them to attain your top position in life as a blogger while using twitter.
4. Focus on just the real fact
Your blog should contain the real information about what you’re about to introduce to your audience on Twitter while the link has to contain the description of the information only - not the whole thing due to space. Never waste time and spaces in trying to fake it for your followers in order to click-through.
You must not try to share everything in that short post, but the catching description of the post or content of the link. With this technique, they will surely click through with the hope of reading the real information embedded in that link either on your blog or someone else’s blog on the internet.
Sharing useful tips and guides with your followers’ everyday could land you great loads of traffic more than what you’re currently getting from that same medium.
Say the fact only and leave the rest for them to click through if they found the information useful to their daily living needs.
5. Stay Unbiased at all the times
You must know that whenever influential tweeters in your industry are making claims of an amount of money they were able to earn within a particular period of time, they aren’t doing this to make you feel bad about your inability to do likewise.
They are either proclaiming it to encourage you to work extra hard in order to get similar results, or to show you their progress along the line in their respective businesses. And those actions don’t need to bother or irritate you in anyway.
So, stay unbiased and balanced, and never allow those claims to destroy your reputation by believing they’re after your downfall when they are progressing.
6. Stay in touch within your reach, don’t do politics on Twitter
Don’t jump into all conversations on twitter if it is a diverse conversation to what your readers are more familiar with. Always remain in your niche and share what your readers want - and not what the industry you are interested in are saying.
For example, if you aren’t blogging about politics, you shouldn’t engage yourself in tweeting links and information related to such an industry onto your Twitter followers (doing this occasionally is OK but don’t do too much of this).
Stop dilly-dallying here and there on social media websites, especially on Twitter. Face one niche and stay active in tweeting information, news, guides that are related to that niche with the right subject matter which you know your followers were interested to learn from.
Unless political matter is about to affect your niche (area of interested or expertise); positive or negative never engage in joining the politic train. In situation like last month when majority of the Parliament insists on SOPA and PIPA bill which could have touch every industry on the internet if it was truly implemented, you could share information as such since it is going to affect the whole internet users - including you and your readers.
7. Never Make Jest of Others in Your Tweets
You should know that mistakes done by others shouldn’t be repeated by you as a blogger. You must learn to stay balanced and never engaged yourself in laughing someone off on Twitter because of its consequences on the long run.
Twitter Success: Takeaway
Following these seven steps will certainly helps you become more successful as a blogger while using Twitter to market your blog and business. You need to understand that, those people who are visiting Twitter everyday are real people just as you are, and they must be treated you want to be treat by others.
Olawale Daniel is a successful blogger and frequent contributor to a Techatlast, where he writes about iphone developer guidelines free android apps. He’s on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter via @coolcash4live
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You don’t have to write a blog about food to have a great recipe for success. All you need is passion, patience and persistency. With so many millions of sites out there, it can be a little overwhelming to know about the competition. It is important that you focus less on what others are doing and more on developing your own unique voice and outlook within the area of interest that you have chosen.
Thanks a ton @Andreas for your comment. You worth more to me
Hi Olawale,
I like your tips on Twitter, much of it comes down to respect. keep the posts coming my friend.
Andreas,
Great word picture/ Metaphor. It really brings it home. It is easy to get busy looking all around and worry about every one else. What matters is to stay focused on what your doing. You said it so eloquently.
My Best, Stephen
Hi Stephen,
Thanks a lot for your comment and I’m glad you love the post
Great post Daniel, worth a read!
Hi Vicky,
It is a nice moment for me seeing your comment here. Thanks for that
Love the picture! Those cakes look amazing!
I agree that good spelling and grammar is key when posting tweets. There is nothing worse than reading tweets in text speak!
Me too - love the cupcakes - I just pinned them! Would love to know how to make those.
Thanks for your comment @Harriet.
You are mostly welcome here
Daniel. One thing I’d say about point 3 is that avoiding the critics can almost be as bad as responding to them badly.
Certain calm responses like; ‘Thank you for your feedback, this will help us to improve our service” Looks very good on you and can make the critic in question look a bit silly!
yeah, you are right, trying to play the game the right way is an ideal way of winning the critic in most cases. Thanks for sharing your idea
Yeah, checking your content for misspelt words is very essential to getting good results
Thanks for your comment
OLAWALE
these are some great tips, on how to be a better twitter, the one that says stay calm is really great, we must always keep our cool especially on twitter
Hi Kenny,
It is great for me seeing you dropping your comment here. Thanks a lot for that. I wish you good luck on Twitter and expect you to become a giant Tweeter soonest
Olawale thank you my brother most definitely
You’re welcome my brother.
Hope you’re doing great?
Insulting others is a bad habit,. Btw nice post Olawale.
You’re welcome Bharat…thanks for your time here.
Recently I have read one information like posting the same tweets 4 or 6 times a day makes the followers to click our link, is that good habit?
Not a good habit MAM,
You need to let people see the best of your contents and not that you will be giving them the same thing all the time, they need something new and fresh. But you can post that same information maybe few days after you might have shared something new with them..
Thanks for your comment
Twitter is my favorite social medium - I totally agree with #1 #2 #4 and #7. I think #3 you can find a creative way to respond. #6 and #7 on occasion can let your personality come through and we are all human. People like to see human side of us whether a blogger or a business. Who made the cupcakes? Love them!
You rock @Lisa with your comment, I totally agree with your points and thanks for commenting on my post here
kalpna says
good information. i like it.
Yeah, checking your content for misspelt words is very essential to getting good results
You’re welcome friend…Glad you like that
I think number 2 is really important, I recently posted about some problems I had with my internet connection, and got an “auto-spam” tweet offering to fix problems with my laptop. My first reaction was to write a scathing response along the lines of “learn to read moron”, I wrote it, didn’t post it and reported them for spam. But it was a close few seconds with my finger on the “Tweet” button. It was the thought of other people looking at my feed and seeing that tweet that caused me not to tweet it.
Number one is also very important. If English isn’t your first language stick to the structures you’re familiar with so it doesn’t accidently all go wrong, and even if it is, re-read your tweet before tweeting it to check that there’s no double meaning in there.
Thanks for the great post again!
P.S. Where can I buy the cupcakes?
Hey Rosemary,
I’m very much interested in your story because I have once did something like that which almost cost me my entire blogging career.
But glory to God, I am over it!
Thanks for taking your time to respond to my post.
I’m sure that all of us have seen brands go down in an eye glance because of a wrong tweet. Many people think that tweeting is like making jokes, and they soon realize how dangerous it could be if they are irresponsible. I like to say that Twitter is a weapon with 2 edges. One that could be very powerful to businesses, and the other could be devastating. Someone needs to stick to their topic and not talk about things that don’t know just because someone else did. Thanks for the great insights Olawale
M Mark
Hey Mark, you get what I am trying to explain in this post. Thanks for your comment
Hi Olawale,
I loved the Twitter cupcakes! They look mighty scrumptious!
Your tips were very well outlined too! I have personally found it a fun challenge to take care of point #1 in only 140 characters. Grammar can be a fun challenge anyway - I would say that challenge is at least doubled when trying to convey good content into tiny spaces.
The points you made regarding controversy and how we deal with it hit home for me. We must realize that by being visible and vocal, we are certainly going to attract attention. Not everything we say or share are guaranteed crowd-pleasers, so we must be ready for how we will handle feedback with grace, dignity, and professionalism!
Cat Alexandra
Hi Alexandra,
I’m glad you commented here and makes your point clear to everyone here. It is an added advantage for me
Truly, 140 characters is very hard to go by, but you just have to obey the rules to stay on top….
It is a great thing for me having you here reading my content. Thanks a lot for that
really an osm research about twitter, m gonna surely keep the above points in mind while using twitter… looking forward for more tips…
Yes they definatley look complicated! I wouldn’t know where to start decorating a cake like that.
resourceful post on Twitter. The first thing of Twitter whom we are following & who are our followers. Because if a general follower read our Tech tweet he will not be interested to read update content. So we need to give priority in that particular aspects too.
All good points. As I spend more time with Twitter and learning its strengths and weaknesses, I have gone from straight promotion to being much more informational. That has meant an increase in followers and traffic to the blog.
I do agree on step number one. Most of the time we forgot to check our grammar and speech. Lots of readers struggle in finding those words to be able to understand the true meaning of the said article of business proposal. Thanks for sharing this Olawale, I find it very useful. Your post is packed with great information.
Using #tags in Twitter really helps me alot to get traffic from Twitter. You have mention some other good points which are more than useful.
Twitter’s HashTag ‘#’ phenomenon is so effective that now Google+ is also using this hashtag feature. The points you mentioned are a jewel & if followed accurately will lead to a successful blogger targeting traffic from Twitter.
Thanks!
Hi OLAWALE,
Nice write up On twitter. I am not that active user of twitter. I heard that most of blogger using twitter for gaining visitor from there. We should follow your points not only for Twitter but also for all Social Media Site.
Thanks a lot for sharing such type of content with us.
~ Amit Shaw
I believe once you have great resources(articles) in your site, just tweet it and once you have good number of followers, they will help you to retweet. This is indeed the viral marketing way.
Hi Olawale,
I want to ask you 1 thing - How much traffic do you get from Twitter ? Is Twitter beneficial for new bloggers ?
I had link 6 twitter account in my blog and i have over all 30k to 40k follower but i am getting only 20 click from twitter
crazy mind says
really nice article here. can you tell me blogger that Twitter beneficial for new bloggers ?
thanks for sharing this type of article….keep it up…thanks Olawale sirjii…
The cupcakes seem nice! LOL!
Well, I agree with you. It’s really important not to bash another people by using Twitter account.Especially the account for blogging. It won’t really bring any good effect for you. Instead, it will just backfire at you, most likely.
Very nice tips Daniel as always. You rocks guest blogging. Keep doing this hard work and I will try these strategy to get success in Twitter!
Hey this was really an informative article about twitter tips. Well we all know that Twitter is well recognized as one of the most excellent social networking sites throughout the world. The tips are much useful for me itself. Thanks for sharing it.
Thanks Olawale Daniel For writting this informative post.
This is a very crucial topic and I check your valuable points, very helpful to note and easy to grasp. Bloggers for success requires the innate excitement, consistency, and effective communication skills as well.
I m searching these type tips so many time finally i got it i m so happy. All seven tips are very helpful for me thanks for it sharing.
Twitter is the micro blogging network which makes us to engage with out followers at any time i just love to tweet
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Indeed twitter is one of the most influential and powerful social media platform where you can use as marketing arm in promoting your business. What’s important in making an update tweet is making sure that it is short and informative as being emphasize on this post. I think the first tip is the basic and important thing to always bear in mind.
Twitter is the right strategy to bring traffic for our website or blog but i dn’t have much experience on it.Danial your points gives as some idea to try it out thanks for sharing it
Hi Everyone,
Thanks a lot for your comments and for finding this post useful and helpful.
Kindly share more and I shall surely reply you as soon as I have them sent to me…
Olawale Daniel
Yes your right on these things,I must say that it’s also a bit of fun on twitter.you can’t take it to serious,some of the comments on it are ridiculous ,cringe worthy realy.
Twitter is one of the best social networking site. This site attract those who are very much interested in marketing their business. People interact with their friends and family member in twitter and exchange their information. Hence it’s a good way of getting information about blogging.
sachin says
oh nice very great collection and i m really glad after know this information
Thanks for Sharing
i m regularly check updates of Pro blogging success
Hi,
Great points there I must say. Totally agree with you, if they are followed they can be extremely beneficial.
Thank you for the share.
Cheers.
i don’t find twitter to be very good for seo unless you are a celebrity or some really popular organization..!
i haven’t seen very good success from twitter yet.!! it doesn’t provides much traffic but it may vary with different people, those who have thousands of followers can get good traffic from it ..1
jalil says
All good points. As I spend more time with Twitter and learning its strengths and weaknesses, I have gone from straight promotion to being much more informational. That has meant an increase in followers and traffic to the blog.
Nice tips. After reading your blog post i think now i can do even more with twitter.