6 Ways Twitter Can Sabotage Your Blog
How To Blog For Newbies Day 27
At this point of your blog business, I’m sure you already have your own Twitter account. Many so called ‘gurus’ should have put in a lot of tips on how to use this microblogging tool to promote your articles and pages.
Apart from all the tricks so rampantly circulating in the web, you may be just wasting your time using Twitter to self-sabotage your own blog. Try going through these mis-steps and see whether they sound familiar to you.
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1. Follow Blindly
When starting off on Twitter, most newbies will tend to just follow anyone they can find in Twitter.com. They don’t care whether those members they are following have the same particular interest as themselves.
So the first step that you can sabotage your blog is to follow any Tom, Dick and Harry that you can find on your tweet site. Many will follow you back out of courtesy. Spammers would be more than happy to reciprocate your follow so that they can fill up your valuable twitter space with their advertising and affiliates. The truth is, halves of these people do not really care about the topic you are so passionately talking about in your blog.
A simple step than save you the agony of attracting the wrong company is just by typing your topic of interest into the ‘find people’ space at the top right corner of your account. If your blog is about mobile phones, just type in “iphone” and you will find lots of people who are acquainted with the gadget one way or another.
2. Not Maintaining Your Twitter Account
Research found that nearly 30 % of Twitterers do not tweet after registering into a Tweet account. Twitter is a free and powerful micro blogging tool that will benefit your blog marketing greatly if you would just care to use it properly.
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3. Spamming Your Friends Away
We are given only a limited space by Twitter to post our tweets and as well as read from our associates. If all you do is to tweet about your latest affiliates program and advertising, your followers will unfollow you like a plaque. Imagine all those valuable informations being pushed to the back page by your inconsiderate and unethical act.
4. Chatting in Twitter main page
Twitter is never meant to be a traditional ICQ or chat forum. Again, the easiest method to get people to dismiss you is to chat in the main page. Not only you won’t get a respond most of the time, you will be treated as a pest in the eyes of your fellow twitterers.
People don’t care whether you have just brushed your teeth or that you have last night’s egg tart for breakfast. Only your mum is interested. If you really want to talk and make friends, use the DM command. In this way, only your targeted audience would see your message. It will also go on to show them that you are a civilized user and know your way around the Web 2.0 ethics.
5. Posting insults
Honestly, I have actually come across people who posted insults in respond to others’ Tweets. No matter how much you disagree or how much you are irritated by some Tweets, just stay cool. Your perception of others need not be shared in the little box that only allows 140 characters of ‘gist ‘ writing.
Just unfollow and if needed to, report the person as a spam.
6. Not Keeping Up With The Latest Trend
In this cyber age, one can never afford to be labeled as a cave man. The least you can do is to keep yourself updated by subscribing to Google alert. Register in this wonderful tool and keep yourself armed with the latest information so that only the best ideas are reflected both in your blog and in your Tweets.
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