Make Posting Your Twitter Tweets Easier By Using A Desktop Twitter App

Posted on 09. Nov, 2009 by Cory in Recommended Resources, Twitter

Once you are on Twitter, there are a number of different ways of posting available. Users can use a maximum of 140 characters per post or “tweet” as they are called. You can tweet as little or as often as you want, as long as each individual tweet does not exceed 140 characters. When you type in a message to Twitter and hit “update” it will be viewed by all of your followers.

Whether your reasons for using Twitter are purely social, professional, or some combination of the two, there are ways of making your tweets more interesting and effective and therefore read more.

People using Twitter for professional networking often tweet links to their own published work, blog, website, and/or or articles that they have found relevant. However, with so many people are tweeting links nowadays it requires a lot of work to get people to click on yours. them. Therefore, it’s important that you must have a headline that sets your Tweet apart for the other stories of the day. It could be humorous or topical but it must be brief and to the point experts say.

One method might be to pull a direct quote from a piece that might make people want to read it. For instance, if everyone knows the general news of the day on a certain topic, tweeting an article with a general headline on (“World-wide swine flu cases continue to rise” for example)might not be as compelling as a new quote from say, someone like the head of the CDC. Assume people already read the news story that first hit the wire, and show them why you read something that is more valuable or in-depth. It also shows what about the article stuck out the most for you.

Various bloggers and social media analysts who have actually studied what makes for effective tweet links and headlines have come up with some basic guidelines, among them, keep it short(VERY important) , no puns (can be annoying and hard to decipher), DO use keywords, DO use hashtags, DON’T consolidate stories (i.e. only one tweet per story), link directly to the story (NOT a home page) and avoid the use of subheads.

Twitter’s variety of apps such as TweetGlide will rack every time your Twitter handle appears in a tweet. After you tweet a link or make a statement, you can then watch how your followers receive it and whether they retweet it.

In addition to following your retweets on Twitter’s search tool, other tools help you track the pervasiveness of the links you share. TweetGlide users utilize bit.ly to shorten URLs they tweet. If you visit bit.ly’s website, you can track the performance of links you tweet.

Eventually you’ll notice patterns for what material is the well-received by your followers receive well. Often it will depend on the audience, which can,after all, be very diverse. Figuring out what makes your Twitter followers click and retweet is an ongoing process that will likely require continuous refinement.