Musician's Web Keeper

FINDING FOLLOWERS

1. Engage, engage, engage. Repeat.
2. Want to know how not to get somebody to follow you? Ask them.
3. If you tweet it, they will come. Behave in the manner with which you wish to be noticed, and write about the subjects you wish to discuss. (Or do the opposite and crash and burn.)
4. All the following systems, Twitter trains and that kind of thing are complete garbage. Don’t waste your time or (in some cases) money. However, mass following people does work. Assuming, that is, you’re happy with a large but empty network of eternal strangers, none of whom are paying the slightest bit of attention to you. Ever. Hey – at least you’re all like-minded.
5. Strive for 100 true fans, and be remarkable. The rest will take care of itself.

TWITTER ETIQUETTE

1. Avoid text speak – if you can’t squeeze a proper sentence into 140 characters (or, ideally, less), try, try again.
2. Find the balance between being overly negative and happy clappy trappy. Neither camp is enormously popular except with others like them. Don’t be somebody you’re not, but if the real you is a jerk, a sap or a fraud, you should probably work on it.
3. It goes without saying, but trolls, bullies, spammers and stalkers are not welcome. (Try MySpace.)
4. Act as if.
5. Don’t send people automated ‘welcome!’ direct messages when they start following you. We hate that stuff. Again, never automate anything.

Wanted to share this post I tweeted about last week once again. If you use Twitter, the full article is a must-read.