20 Ways to Look Dumb on Twitter by OPEN Forum
1. Tweet randomly, because you don’t have a strategy, and just hope your target customers will start following you.
2. Use up all 140 characters so nobody can retweet your message.
3. Use a long Twitter handle that takes up valuable space and leaves little room to actually write something.
4. Keep full URL links in your tweets, instead of
shortening your links (using a service like Bitly), which greatly
minimizes the number of retweets.
5. Talk only about yourself and your business.
Click here for all 20 ways to lose followers, confuse customers and waste your
resources on Twitter.
(via 20 Ways to Look Dumb on Twitter - OPEN Forum :: American Express OPEN Forum)
As our thoughts go out to the people of Boston, we share a few like-minded sentiments from entrepreneurs tweeting their support.
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A haphazard social media strategy will be disadvantageous for your business’s credibility with your customers. Knowing and practicing the best approaches to tweeting and hashtagging in the social-sphere can benefit your business greatly. So before you start tweeting, study up on the best ways for you to converse with your customers, interact with your audience and gain clout on the Twitter platform.
10 Personal Finance Experts to Follow on Twitter
1. @A_Lusardi for an academic and public policy perspective
2. @ManishaThakor for the latest investing news
3. @DailyWorth for actionable advice
4. @EARN for those one a tight budget
5. @wisebread to chat with other money conscious tweeps
6. @TheBillfold for real life stories
7. @gogirlfinance for reads you’ll come back to
8. @MoneyUnder30 especially for 20-something
9. @CreditExperts for all things credit
10. @LearnVest for all of this in one place
Read more on why you should be following these twitter handles
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(via 3 Ways to Turn Social Media Followers Into Promoters of Your Brand | Entrepreneur.com)