What Is Good Twitter Etiquette?

By: Martin Sejas

If you’ve been using Twitter for a while then you would have heard of the term Twitter etiquette. Nevertheless, there are still a lot of people who don’t know what it is and even if they know, they are not applying it to their advantage. The bottom line is that if you demonstrate good Twitter etiquette, then you can only become successful at Twitter.

The question remaining then is: what exactly is good Twitter etiquette? It’s pretty much involves a list of things you should and shouldn’t do. What you shouldn’t do is not technically illegal on Twitter, but they can stop getting followers and respect from fellow Twits.

So here’s a short list of what you should do on Twitter:

• Write interesting tweets. Put yourself in the position of a follower or potential follower and ask yourself: “Would I want read something like that?” If you don’t, then don’t tweet that message.

• Share links to information and resources which will benefit your followers. If you don’t find it beneficial, don’t send them the link.

• Be concise and straight to the point with your tweet. If you’re not, then people will start to ignore what you say. Plus, you’ve got 140 characters to get your point across.

Here what you shouldn’t do:

• Write completely random tweets. People don’t want to read that you are going to the bathroom or driving a car. Boo-hoo, it’s boring too.

• Spam your followers. Tweeting the same message and the same links constantly is annoying for everyone. In fact, it will most likely mean that many of them will stop following you and Twitter might even choose to suspend your account.

• Don’t acknowledge another person’s tweets. If you tweet someone else’s message, have the courtesy to recognize the original author with an RT (or re-tweet). How would you feel if someone tweeted your message without acknowledging you?

As you can see, achieving and maintaining good Twitter etiquette for success is not difficult if you follow the guidelines outlined in this article.