10 Ways to Find Your Voice With Twitter

Finding your voice is fundamental to achieving vigorous online growth.  Online fashions are fast; an endless steady stream of new patterns to practice.  It is impossible to adopt every trend that comes along, but there’s no doubt that Twitter’s here to stay.  By the end of this year, Twitter will further cement itself as one of the essential tools for online business, social marketing, and overall online connection.

Twitter is a critical component to many successful online strategies.  More than that, Twitter is the perfect playground to start tweaking your online voice.

These ten Twitter tips can help you find your voice:

Persevere: Twitter is a bit like many things, while managing to also be entirely unique.  In the beginning, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and perhaps confused.  Stick with it and don’t give up, even when it feels like you should.  You may not get it in the beginning, but you will soon enough.  Spend some time as a spectator by following your favorites.  Once you see a rhythm you can follow, jump in and start skipping rope.

Be Yourself: Don’t worry about how many followers you will or won’t get.  Just stay true to yourself, no matter what.  If you think something’s funny, spread it around, but don’t try to impress.  Use a picture of yourself if you aren’t too shy.  People generally prefer to see who they are speaking with.

Share: It’s easier to make friends when sharing.  No need to be shy.  Twitter has high speed traffic for information of all sorts.  If you stumble upon something others might find useful, share it.  Your interests part of your online fingerprint.  Allow others to share those interests and they may come to rely on your judgement.

Listen: As in life, we sometimes learn more by listening than speaking.  Using Twitter doesn’t mean tweeting every twenty seconds.  Sometimes it’s okay to listen to discourse while mining useful information.  Speaking only when you have something useful to say will help you further refine your best voice.

Be Mindful: The delete button doesn’t work online.  The internet is public.  Be aware of what you are saying and why you are saying it.  Manners are as important on Twitter as they are in our comments or on the doorsteps of our homes.

Be sincere: Just because someone is an “A-list” blogger doesn’t mean they aren’t approachable.  If their information is valuable to you, it will likely have value to others.  Re-tweet it as you would re-tweet information from your friends.  In other words, tweet because of the value of the information, not because of the eyes that might be on it.

Confidence: Twitter is a great equalizer.  Your resume means little while tweeting.  Whatever you say, say it well.  The more articulate you are, the more followers will flock.  The more followers you have, the more your confidence will swell.

Learn: 140 characters.  That’s all.  Use limitations to enhance ability.  It takes skill to pack valuable information with precision. Twitter is excellent practice.  Master tweeters = better bloggers.

Invite: Twitter is a grand courtyard for making contact and spreading thought.  Don’t be afraid to add to conversations or invite fellow bloggers back to your home blog to continue discourse.

Start: There is no time like the present.  Give Twitter a few days and you will quickly see what an invaluable tool it can be.

Jump in, get going, and grow.  Using Twitter effectively is a wonderful way to sharpen your voice.

The BB Team

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