Comments on: How to Build Strong Relationships on Twitter

By: Dabert

Dabert — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:22:43 +0000

Do you guys have a recommendation section, i’d like to suggest some stuff

By: Debra Snider

Debra Snider — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:28:50 +0000

I find it incredible that people don’t instinctively know and understand these things, but they clearly don’t, so thanks for the sensible, useful post.

One additional thing I do is backtrack through my timeline to see what my tweeps have been talking about while I’ve been away. With my schedule, this usually means going back 10+ hours in time, and it’s getting harder to manage as my following increases, but I figure why follow people if you aren’t going to read what they’re tweeting?

By: Robert "Butch" Greenawalt

Robert "Butch" Greenawalt — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:56:03 +0000

All good and valid points. Many times you get bombarded with new followers and don’t have time to fully appreciate who they are until you’ve seen their tweets. It’s a learning process like anything else. Thanks for your insights to. MRHYPERPCS

By: Tamara Putvin

Tamara Putvin — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:12:41 +0000

Hmm great read, Trying to subscribe, but feedburner is broken?

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:12:25 +0000

@Eric,

Yes it keeps the useless conversation to a minimum.

@Localize Internet Marketing,

Yeap at first it might seem like a good idea but once your follower numbers starts to go up you start to realize the importance of choosing who you choose to follow wisely.

@Janine,

I have never heard of using it as a social bookmarking site actually but the point is to consider who you are following. It’s kind of like shouldn’t you take a minute to evaluate who you choose to be friends with IRL? It’s the same concept. You want to be selective about who you allow in your circle because you want to have a good circle.

By: Janine Landers

Janine Landers — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:27:18 +0000

You have a point there Gerald. There are some people out there who use twitter to social bookmark their own websites. That means they simply have nothing in their own profiles and just keep posting the sites that they are bookmarking. I have actually seen a lot on twitter.

By: Localize Internet Marketing

Localize Internet Marketing — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:39:13 +0000

Those are some great additional tips Gerald. I originally followed everyone that followed me, but the spam was getting out of hand and I had to re-evaluate.

By: Eric Brantner

Eric Brantner — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:35:58 +0000

@Gerald–

Those are all great rules to help ensure you follow the right people. I bet it really helps keep the useless conversations to a minimum.

By: Gerald Weber SEO Tips Blog

Gerald Weber SEO Tips Blog — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:46:45 +0000

Well these are all good tips but I think stop selling yourself if probably the most important tip on here. It can’t be overstated not to bomb your links left and right. If you engage in normal meaningful replies and DM on Twitter people will respond to that and want to know more about you. Also I don’t think it’s a good idea to automatically follow someone back just because they follow you. I think this dilutes the focus of following people in your niche and will reduce the quality of the tweets you get from your followers and the quality of your followers. I also take a look at someones profile and then their website if they have no description in their profile I don’t follow them back. I also look at how many people they are following vs how many are following them. i.e. If they are following 1000 people and only have 100 followers that is a bit odd and tells me they are just mass following for the purpose of spamming following spam so I wouldn’t follow that person back.