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Who What Why of Twitter Marketing

Who, What, Why of Twitter Marketing


Gaining your audience’s attention on Twitter when your tweets are among thousands in a short time frame is a primary objective for many marketers. How often do we read tweets that appear to be nothing more than the last thousand seemingly pointless thought processes? How do you set your Twitter posts apart and help to build a foundation on which to place your marketing efforts? Take time to think about what you are going to tweet so that your tweets are not counted among the simplistic multitudes. Consider the Who, What, Why of your post. When you take into consideration the who’s, the what’s, and the why’s of your tweets and you answer these questions intelligently, you will keep your audience with you. WHO? WHAT? WHY? Very basically this asks, what are we selling to whom and why should they buy it? In marketing terms, this all boils down to a thoughtful offering and effective posting. Even the best intentioned social media campaign will fail if the “who, what and why” is not considered. This should apply in even the most basic of 140 character messages. Here are a few questions to take into consideration: Who do you think this tweet will benefit? What is it that you hope to gain or hope your audience will gain from this tweet? Why will it benefit your business or your clients, current and potential? While sharing your lunch meeting with your followers may seem appropriate, which of the following will gain you a bit more leverage with your audience? “I am just getting back from lunch at my favorite restaurant. I had a lovely Asian chicken salad and a glass of Chardonnay. I enjoyed myself.” Or “Enjoyed a lovely business lunch w @username today. We spoke of joint ventures and how my company X and their company Y can work together.” While the first may get you a reply or two from those who are happy you enjoyed a nice lunch, the second will show that you are a go-getter, that take your business seriously and are looking to create viable business relationships with others. There are many articles on the internet asking the question of how often to tweet. But the true question is not how often as much as it is about the quality of your posts. You can tweet every 5 minutes for hours on end if you are so inclined. However, if all you are posting about is about your day and the weather without any true insight into who you are, what your company is about and what you have to offer it does little more than keep your name in front of your followers. Be thoughtful in your messages. Remember that you are using Twitter as part of your marketing campaign for your business. Waving in a friendly manner at passersby outside of your brick and mortar isn’t going to get them in the door any quicker than it will within the social networks. Offering your audience something with substance is what is going to get them in the front door and hopefully have them come back for more.


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Who to Follow on Twitter

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Who to Follow on Twitter


Knowing who to follow on Twitter is important in your marketing efforts. You want to follow those who are of interest to you. You want to follow those who are of use to you and your business. Your hope is that they will in turn follow you back, if they aren’t already following you, thus opening up the lines of communication between your business and your audience. There are several tools that can be used to make these efforts easier and more streamlined.


  • Mr. Tweet – Show the influencers and followers you should follow and suggests
    you to enthusiastic users relevant to you.

  • Just Tweet It – A user directory for Twitter organized by genre to allow for
    users to easily find other Twitter users to connect with.

  • Retweet Rank – Retweetrank lets you find rank of any twitter user.
    With the rank, latest retweets of the user are shown and an RSS feed can also be grabbed for the same.

  • Twellow – A directory of public Twitter accounts,
    with hundreds of categories and search features to help you find people who matter to you.

  • TwitteRel – By using Twitterel.com you can make your life a lot more interesting,
    we thought of a way to connect to other twitter users who share the same interests as you do.

  • Friend or Follow – Who are you following that’s not following you back?
    Who’s following you that you’re not following back?

  • Twitoria – Twitoria is a web app that tidies up your Twitter friends list by
    revealing inactive friends that haven’t tweeted in a long time so you can unfollow them.

  • Topify – Twitter application that improves Twitter’s email notification and
    allows to follow and reply to direct messages by email.

  • Tweepler – A Twitter application that allows you to organize followers.

  • Twimailer – Tired of shallow e-mails from Twitter when someone follows you?
    Want to know more about the people who are following you? Twimailer is a free service that delivers that information right to your inbox!

  • TweeterTags – Get the most out of Twitter by finding the right people
    to share the conversation: Tweeter Tags makes it easy to declare your interests and find new, like-minded friends.
    Have a question you need answering? Find relevant people on Twitter to ask.


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Whats in a Twitter Name

What’s in a (Twitter) Name?


Paulwillshowu is now following you on Twitter. Does this name look rather fishy to you? It should. This is an actual user account on Twitter that was suspended due to strange activity, which probably means the person (or program) who set up this account was going to use it for the sole purpose of spamming the Twitter stream of flow.


Your user name on Twitter is the first impression people have of you. Even before your profile or any of your tweets are read, your name can be a big clue to who you are and what your purpose is. Many people decide to use their name such as JohnSmith as a username. Using your real name can let other people know a real human is trying to get to know them, rather than a program that is just trying to push a product on them. This isn’t always the case, of course, but your real name can be the perfect choice for your username.


A business is a little different on Twitter, but can follow the same rules. Comcast Customer Support, for instance, has ComcastCares as a username. Many businesses decide to use the business name as the sole account and the employee’s first name followed by an underscore to denote single users within that business. For instance, back to the Comcast example, you could have Jane_ComcastCares as an account for Jane.


Your user name can be a difficult thing to come up with, especially if you have a common name or don’t feel comfortable using your given name on the Internet. A simple, yet memorable, name is always best. Here are a few tips when deciding on a user name to employ for Twitter.


• Go solo – Chose a name that can be used across many platforms. Chances are, if it isn’t being used on one, it won’t be used on other sites either. This helps people looking for you find you easily. If they know your username on Twitter, then they can find you on LinkedIn as well. It’s a simple way to add to the branding of your business.


• Personal – If you have a common name, instead of using underscores or numbers, (which makes it look like you didn’t spend much thought on your name) try using initials or different combinations of your name.


• Length – The shorter the better. Remember, you only have 140 characters. When someone wants to reply to you, your name takes up a portion of those characters. If your name is 40 characters long, you’re limiting their ability to respond. Length also makes getting the spelling correct if someone is using a mobile device. Keep it short and sweet.


• Characters – Try to avoid the use of special characters such as $, _ and %, as well a numbers. These characters are typically used by bots trying to spam the system and people tend to shy away from incoming requests. This also makes replies difficult from a mobile phone. How long does it take you to spell out @$horty_179 on your key pad? Chances are many folks won’t want to waste their time even replying to your tweets.


Spend some quality time deciding on your username. Make it personal to you so it fits your style, but also make it unique and keep others in mind. Follow these few steps and your Twitter name will be created in no time. Then all that’s left to do is to get out there and start tweeting.


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