Jask group are introducing a new feature called Jask Twitter Tip Tuesday.
What we will be doing every Tuesday is focusing on one great Twitter tip we think you should integrate into your social media strategy.
Today’s Jask Twitter Tip Tuesday: The third thing to do once you have created your Twitter account
You may have missed first two tips in our series ‘Things to do after creating your Twitter account’ but no fear, links are below:
The first thing to do once you have created your Twitter account
The second thing to do once you have created your Twitter account
Ok, so the third thing you must do after creating your account is……
Create your first 10 tweets
There is absolutely no point in creating a Twitter account if you don’t have any tweets. Initially your first 10 tweets have to give the right impression and have to be right. These early tweets are the ones people will judge you on and will be the deciding factor as to whether they ‘follow’ you or just ‘ignore’ you.
You don’t want to get stuck in the trap of your first tweets been ‘Follow us now on Twitter’ type of tweets, or the other type which are self promotion tweets. You want to create engagin high quality tweets to arouse the interest of people.
10 tweets, why?
Theory has it, that this is the number of tweets someone will read from one person before they move on to someone else. Look at these first 10 tweets as training tweets. By training tweets we mean use different styles of tweets to see which one sounds more genuine for your Twitter voice.
What should my first tweet be?
Many people are under a misconception that when they tweet their tweet will be sent to everyone on Twitter. Wrong! The tweet will only be read by the people who follow you and your first tweet will not be read by anyone – yet.
As it will not be read in real-time you can still increase its visility of being read and attracting the attention of followers. In your tweet add a #hashtag. For example, ‘Using Twitter as part of my #socialmedia strategy.’ what this means is anyone searching for #socialmedia could potentially read your tweet.
Another way of attracting followers is giveing someone you know on Twitter a direct mention. For example ‘Hi to our good friends @JaskGroup, we finally joined Twitter’. Again, if your ‘@’ mention has many followers, chances are your tweet will be read, especially if they reply as all of his followers will see the response.
Fast forward to the next nine (million) tweets
Whether you send nine or nine million tweets the rule stays the same – BE INTERESTING AND ENGAGING in your tweets. Here are some suggestions on creating engaging tweets:
- Create conversations – Join in conversations and ask people questions, even normal questions about how their day is going. Shows you are a conversationalist not a self promoter.
- Be useful – Add useful links in your tweets.
- Be strategic – use keywords people are searching for e.g. ‘graphic design’, ‘social media’
What are your thoughts?
Can you offer any advice to people just starting out? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
Check back every week for ‘Jask Twitter Tip Tuesday’ for some more great Twitter tips we think you will find useful.
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