Twitter strategy: be nice!…
Ok, we all go through some kind of learning curve before grasping the potential of Twitter. It’s like buying new pencils: after the excitement of the beauty of the pencils is gone, you still have to determine what to draw. The same goes for twitter, as tool in the new information age.
You start with saying “on my way to work”, “heavy traffic”, “coffee is cold”. Then you start asking questions “anyone knows a good restaurant here?”, “what phone should I buy?”. You find out that nobody is answering, because nobody is following. You read @guykawasaki’s powertips and start follow a bunch of (sometimes self declared) twitter guru’s. You become addicted, because a lot is happening, you retweet now and then and people start following you. You are in.
It becomes some sort of part of your normal information space.
But then, interesting things happen. You start conversations, meet other people via twitter, ask questions and get answers, cross link people. You become Social.
And?… You also find out that there is a downside.
From nature, I have a habit of wanting to help people. So if people in my timeline ask a question, I tend to give an answer. Sometimes I put effort in getting this answer to them, by searching info or thinking about it. What I see is that allmost nobody thanks me for it. Not that I am in desperate need of compliments, or something, but I just wonder if they get too much answers, do not read mine, find the answer wrong or just don’t think they should answer.
What is your experience?
