Twitter and 50 Ways to FAIL
by Paul Prins at 9:46 amTwitter is quickly becoming one of the easiest social networking platforms out there today. While the membership numbers aren’t as high as Facebook the sheer portability of it, and the nice mobility of it make it worth while to me. Not to mention the ability to integrate our blog, twitter, and Facebook all together (How to is here).
Lee Odden (a man with nearly 14k followers on twitter @leeodden) wrote a piece about the common mistakes he sees on twitter that dilute your following. Below are his top ten, and check out his blog for another 40 submitted by his followers.
Top Ten Ways to Fail on Twitter
- Don’t auto reply follows with a link to your free piece of crap ebook.
- Don’t provide an obscure description of who you are and what you do
- No photo or an image that only makes sense to you and your imaginary friends
- Don’t mention a great resource with no link
- Not customizing your background
- Don’t post 10 messages in succession (also repeated below)
- Don’t follow over 1000 people in a 2 hour period
- Don’t write about the cat/hamster/potted plant over and over again
- Don’t swear often and expect business people to take you seriously (Unless you work for Outspoken Media)
- Don’t over-abbreviate.
Final Thoughts
I feel like the last one here is most important for churches, and would add to it using insider lingo. If you have a nickname for locations or people, don’t use them in your twitter feed. Doing that will only make people feel unwelcomed and on the outside.
Make sure to check out the full list over at his blog.
