Mind Your Social Media Manners Please
So some knew this rant was coming.
But I won’t rant.
Instead I’ll be positive. (Let’s see how many bloody paragraphs I can get through without bitching)
I’ll share the social media manners I socialize by on Twitter
So YOU, not all of you, but YOU know who YOU are, can get a bloody clue.
Twitter Manners
Twitter makes it easy to search out and connect to other like minded peeps by adding keywords in the search field.
If you’re using a twitter client such as Hootsuite, Tweetdeck or MarketMeSuite, these options are also available.
- Read through the list and actually read the profiles. Click follow on those profiles that appeal to you. Send a freakin tweet to say hi.
- If the person “follows” you back, thank them.
- If someone shares your post on Twitter, thank them.
- If someone Retweets you, thank them.
- Don’t only retweet your tweets tweeted by someone else. How about retweeting their tweets once in a while? huh? huh?
- Retweet interesting tweets that you feel your other followers would find interesting.
- Reshare posts via a tweet that you think your followers would be interested in. Some followers who’ve read it
and have mannersmay thank you for sharing. - If you come across a tweet with a question you can answer that appeals to you, answer them. This is a great opportunity to start a convo.
Do not, I bloody repeat, do not DM people you’ve never had a convo with and tell them to like your FB page and visit your blog. There are better, stronger ways to build relationships outside of twitter.
I ALWAYS thank people for connecting. I don’t thank them for following. I’m not a friggin celebrity. And yes I know it’s the lingo, but can’t we change that?
Getting Twitter connections to visit your blog
- Instead of sending your new connection – that you’ve never tweeted – a DM telling them to visit your blog, how about you head over to the website in their profile and visit them first?
- Anytime someone leaves me a comment, right after replying to them, i head over to check out their site and leave a comment about their post. NOT a comment saying “hi found you via twitter please check out my blog you lower than thou person”. Instead, I dig around for a post that interests me and I leave my two cents.
- And if they don’t have a website listed in their profile, then asking via a tweet if they have a blog is a great way to break the ice! You can also look through their tweets to see if the have tweeted a post from their site.
Getting Twitter connections to visit your Facebook Fanpage
Since you’re on their blog, how about clicking the Facebook icon and liking their page before asking them to like yours? Maybe leaving a nice message on their wall?
How to get traffic from Twitter
I’m no Twitter Guru but I swear John Aguiar is. So check out his Twitter Dummy Book if you want to learn his secrets to growing your following, getting traffic to your blog and making money with Twitter. I bought the book for a steal at $19. Worth every penny. And yes, I did include my affiliate link cause I stand by this book.
That is all peeps. I’d love to know how you use twitter so please share in the comments section.
If you’re pissed about this post, you can leave a comment too, I don’t mind at all.
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facebook really is for socializing with ppl you already know, this is so true. thanks for stopping by girl.
I’m still trying to say the tweet retweet the twitter tweet…something something like 10 times fast. I cannot *bows head in shame*
I do agree, especially for bloggers that helping to promote other bloggers by tweeting their posts they will do yours in return.
Plus get to know who you are following. Don’t just hit the follow button just because you want numbers. Mingle. If someone tweets something, engage with them. People will engage back
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i can’t tell you how much i enjoyed doing that. lol.
Great tips! Genuine engagement is key! My motto is that you should only follow who you want to follow. You should follow them because you want to hear what they have to say, not because they can “follow” you back. :
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well you know i like BSing on twitter. lol. and i have no problem promoting excellent posts and blogs and their writers.
I wish peeps could read this before getting a Twitter account. I must admit that while I always tweet anyone who tweets me I occasionally forget to thank for all the RT’s. When it is a contest I skip it and when it is overwhelming, I close the laptop.
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Niri! How you doing mama? this was a total rant, wasn’t it? i had planned on sharing how “I” socialize online, but somehow a”You” command worked it’s way in a few times. lol. I think it’s because during the writing of this post, i received two DMs to follow people on FB. I sincerely wish that people would agree that the relationships you build online, are no different than the relationships you build offline and so shedding your manners at the keyboard should not be done.
Imagine you’re at a conference, you walk up to someone who a friends suggests you meet, you say hello, and that person responds with his business card saying thanks for your interest but i’m never really here, you can find me at this other conference.
pisses me off i tell you.
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