How to use twitter wisely?

Twitter is the most sought-after social media platform by many including celebrities. Twitter can be extremely enjoyable and rewarding if only you knew how to use twitter wisely.

The micreblogging site poses the challenge of crafting informative messages using limited characters. The problems often arises when there are users who fail to understand the way Twitter works or when people misuse the service.

It is truer that Twitter does not have a written set of user guidelines – apart from its terms of service. But, Twitter has a fairly well-conceived set of unwritten rules that users should adhere.

Never merely thank or make a mention of new followers.  Make it a point to retweet their posts

When people – regardless whether your followers or not – mention or retweet your post, you must immediately return the favor instead of just thanking them in a mention.

This will help you obtain new followers and retweets/mentions getting a big boost almost instantly.

It is worthwhile to create a public Twitter list. When followers espy your list bulging, they may retweet or mention you. When the list is public, it will become visible to all users.

Make it a point to immediately add a Twitter to your public list when they retweet or mention your name a couple of times.

Use your public list to regularly retweet and make a mention your faithful tweeters. They will most surely reciprocate your gesture.

The simple rule is to tweet regularly the posts of the people who influence you the most on Twitter. It may be helpful if you create a blog listing those people and explain why and how they influenced you.

Never forget to follow back particularly if they are regular and post interesting or informative content. Otherwise, you may stand to lose a potentially useful follower.

Use hashtags as hashtags on Twitter are helpful to people in finding topics even if they are not following you. But, never send out tweets with just about every possible keyword hash-tagged. This can be construed as spam.

Unfortunately, several people treat Twitter as a broadcast-only medium and never engage with other users. Avoid this mistake.

Consider Twitter as a huge professional gathering and you are communicating with diverse group of people. It will be fine if you are a professional – personable and also entertaining