Do’s and Don’ts of Networking on Twitter
Do’s
1. Limit your tweets
2. Space your tweets throughout the day
3. Use DM when you need to reply to one person only
4. Build relationship
5. Unfollow spammers
6. Mix your comments: useful, personal, humoristic, newsy
7. Contribute regularly to the groups you create
8. Use to network
9. Inform your followers that you will be away for a period of time
10. Create a personalized background on your homepage for branding
Don’ts
1. Hug the tweet stream with one tweet after another
2. Use auto-directing messaging
3. Use twitter as a chat room
4. Hard sell
5. Be in for the number game only
6. Criticize publicly
7. Have to follow all your followers
8. Register multiple accounts and tweet same message everywhere
9. Manufactured twittering i.e. several people joining force to push a
blog or someone as part of a marketing plan.
10. Create a series of tweets to deliver one message, use tiny url
