Comments on: The Ten Commandments of Twitter

By: scooplarue

scooplarue — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:13:57 +0000

Thank you for the instructional post. As someone who is a relative newbie to the whole social networking concept (which still presents some real mysteries for me) the information is very helpful. If I may, I’d like to suggest a future topic for you or someone else to take up…what constitutes a spammer? You mention personal Twitter “goals” several times. It seems to me that self-promotion is the primary goal of all social networking sites. When does that self-promotion rise to the level of spam? I’ve seen plenty of folks that tweet “good morning,” tweet “good night,” and everything in between is an hourly posting of “Support xyz group…yada, yada.” However worthy the cause, isn’t that spam? And, if it is spam, how does the responsible social networker deal with it?

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By: Hari om agrawal

Hari om agrawal — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:07:39 +0000

I appriciate for providing such a useful, interesting information & would like to have more such information/tips.
Hari om agrawal

By: Cheryl Harrison

Cheryl Harrison — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:46:31 +0000

GREAT post! I’ve been putting off writing one of these myself but now I think I’ll just link people here because you nailed most of my points! And re: point 10 – I’ve been meeting new Tweeple everyday for a month and haven’t been killed yet! hehe http://beingcheryl.com/2008/12/05/fast-14-meeting-14-new-people-in-14-days/

Thanks for posting!
- Cheryl
@CherylHarrison

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By: Alexis

Alexis — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:06:48 +0000

Hi
Great post. I’d love to know more about “There are more complicated/sophisticated ways to attract followers, ”
In fact I had totally underestimated the importance of the presentation text
Alexis

By: Eva

Eva — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:26:35 +0000

James and Todd,

You said “Twitter is not chat. It’s a “one-to-many” communication channel. Use direct messages. If you use the @ command make what you write a benefit to everyone following you.”

I couldn’t agree more. And thanks for reminding me that my @’s should benefit all my associates.

James, try submitting your tips directly to Twitter, provided they’ll include your links. The tips are that good!

By: Voice Over

Voice Over — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:21:25 +0000

Great information for us Twitter nerds. Thank you!

By: James Dickey

James Dickey — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:59:11 +0000

I agree completely. It’s likely that even the person you’re replying to has dozens of other conversations overlapping in Twitter at the same time and would benefit from a reminder of the subject matter. Provide as much context as possible even in @ replies.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:30:31 +0000

You forgot “Thous shall not use Twitter as chat!”

Beyond annoying to see people respond or address a single person ( abusing the @ command ) 10, 20 times all in a row. Doubly annoying when the Tweets have no context to what’s being said;

@ishouldbeusingchatinstead1 Hey yeah, you’re right.
@ishouldbeusingchatinstead2 See I told you so!
@ishouldbeusingchatinstead1
@ishouldbeusingchatinstead2

Twitter is not chat. It’s a “one-to-many” communication channel. Use direct messages. If you use the @ command make what you write a benefit to everyone following you.