The Lady Programmer

One of the first things I did with Twitter was to announce what I am working on. As I use Twitter more often, I noted that many bloggers had been using it to promote their blog posts. Like many of these enlightened bloggers I followed what they had been doing and began to announce my post as soon as I hit the publish button. I even got Twhirl installed to help me manage and post out tweets.

What makes me visit and reply to your tweet? Of course the message has to be interesting enough.

• You are one of the first few to blog or announce breaking news.
• You have written those posts like “how to”, “top ten” and other catchy titles similar to the title of this post.
• You always have other articles, videos and pictures to share other than your own blog posts.
• You have an opportunity to offer that make some money or other similar incentive.
• You really interact with people by sending replies.
• You ask help.
• You ask questions.
• You’re not too obvious in announcing a new blog post.
• You post out status updates on what you’re doing, thinking and feeling – without being negative.
• You love to spread the positive attitude around and easily relate to everyone by simple greetings.

I had noticed that most of the people I am following on Twitter often start their tweets with the words “new blog post”. With the Twitter population growing, I think “new blog post” is fast becoming an outdated style of promoting a blog. Being creative and interactive is must! Most of those tweets that belong to the reasons would get me scurrying out to check your blog post.

Of course, that’s what attracts me in using Twitter. I might be on a lonely planet where everyone does not agree with me.

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10 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

1. 

   Edwin Sanchez
   November 21st, 2008 at 9:54 am #

   Good point, Gem. I’ll try this. Thanks

2. 

   Web-Betty
   November 21st, 2008 at 1:07 pm #

   I started using Twitter and Plurk at the same time, and Twitter just bugs me. With Plurk you can actually hold a conversation instead of getting disembodied sentences that have no meaning after an hour.

   I do still use Twitter about twice a day as I have a few contacts who refuse to convert, LOL.

3. 

   Willem Kossen
   November 21st, 2008 at 6:14 pm #

   Thanks for your post. I do agree, but don’t actually follow through. I have these twit-new-post-type-plugins in my blogs. I’ll have a look what I can do about configuring those to twit something different than the same old ‘new blog post’ string each time….

   Thanks for the great tip!

4. 

   blanne
   November 21st, 2008 at 10:47 pm #

   ooh.. the reasons you mentioned pretty much reminded me of darren rowse. looks like you both have the same way of interacting with your twitter friends..

   nice post, gem. really reminded me on how i should go about with my tweets. will be applying some of them.

5. 

   Gem
   November 22nd, 2008 at 12:11 pm #

   @Edwin Sanchez
   Thanks for agreeing with me.

   @Web-Betty
   Most of those Twitter use this to announce something, not like Plurk which engages interesting conversation. The karma helps motivates Plurkers a lot.

   @Willem Kossen
   I hope the plugin can be customized soon. It should make the Tweet more engaging and interesting.

   @blanne
   I’ve been reading his Twitip but I did not copy any of my ideas from him. I got this idea because too many Twitters had been promoting their blog posts more than engaging in interesting conversations. I got this idea from doing a lot of Plurking around and that “responding to blog comments”. It should apply well to Twitter/Plurk.

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   Eric Tan
   November 23rd, 2008 at 6:45 pm #

   i agree with all your twitter reasons my dear… how is baguio nowadays… the last time i was there was 1996, im sure things have changed… nayway im gonna have to folow u on twitter now, your posts are interesting…

7. 

   ark
   November 25th, 2008 at 12:12 am #

   I’m a newbie at twitter. I’ll follow you and hope to learn from you.

8. 

   Millionaire Acts
   December 17th, 2008 at 4:23 pm #

   I’m also a newbie in twitter. They said that twitter can increase one’s blog traffic.

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10. 

    elmot
    September 29th, 2009 at 2:47 pm #

    Hi Gem! I don’t totally agree that Twitter increases one’s traffic significantly as per my experience. But I love twitter the same way I love sending SMS. ehhehehe