10 Ways to Find Your Voice With Twitter
by Eric and Sean on January 14, 2009
in communication
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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Great tips guys – I really thing that this is the year Twitter goes mainstream too. I’ve found it both a very effective but also fun way to get my blogging voice and brand out there.
As a blogger Twitter is an extension of your blogging so it is important to remain consistent with your message, and as on a blog engage with your community.
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Great advice guys, not much I can add to that list. You should take the opportunity to increase your own followers though by linking in your Twitter profiles (and not just for the Blogopolis Blueprint)
I just found Twitter about two months ago, and these tips are spot on to help you find a voice. One thing I do is DM a follower everyday and just ask if there is anything I can do to help them. I think people appreciate it, and I know in the beggining I loved when people offered thier services. Thanks guys!
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@Chris: You’re totally right in pointing out our need to engage the Twitter community like it were your own blog. We can’t expect to grow in anything we neglect. Twitter is no different.
@Marc: Great point about us adding our personal profiles to the Blueprint. I’ll look into that.
@Jay: Direct messaging new Twitter followers is an excellent habit to get into. Thanks for adding the great insight! Eric
I’m going to take your advice and let you know how it goes.
Tess
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How do you add links? Or is there a better way to share stuff?
@Tess: Awesome! We’ll see you in the land of Tweets!
@Matt: There’s a few ways of doing this. First, since Twitter only allows 140 characters you want to use something like tineurl. This is a way of shrinking the original down to a much lower character eating size. To do this you can either use something like TwitThat or use a desktop client like TweetDeck which builds this option right into the tweeting process. Or, you can just type the url into twitter and do it that way, but like I said, this will often times eat up most of your tweeting allowance.
There are many ways to do this and this is just a few, but it should give you some options that you can work with. Eric
Matt: Just a note. As much as I think that grammar and syntax are important, when it comes to Twitter, it’s okay to relax the rules. 140 characters isn’t a lot, so if you need to do a couple of thx instead of thanks, it is a forum where it’s acceptable.
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