Guide to twitter - what you should know about twitter

Tweeting is becoming very common, do you know the techniques to effectively tweet. Here are some tips for you

  1. When i tweet who will see it - twitter is for anyone who follows you or interested in you.
  2. have a short twitter handle, like @directutor
  3. Use an application like TweetDeck (our choice), Hootsuite, Seesmic or a mobile client if you tweet from your phone.
  4. Tweet as much as you can... people tweet a lot and your tweets can be lost
  5. Regularly tweet, make a habit of tweeting at intervals. make patterns so that your followers will habituated.
  6. keep your tweets original and interest gaining
  7. Re-Tweet, make yourself heard.
  8. never spam your followers
  9. try short URLs, like bit.ly
  10. Use hash tags like #directutor.
  11. Tweet when you blog