Wednesday, 25 March 2009
5 Tips For The Anti-Social Twitter User
So the whole point to twitter is to communicate with other people right? Not necessarily, it’s great for that. But if you don’t want to spend every waking minute of the day logged into twitter, fanatically obsessing over every tweet that comes rolling into your twitter stream, that’s fine too. Here’s a guide for using twitter if you’re slightly less socially inclined when it comes to social media.
1. You don’t get a cash prize for having the most followers (not directly anyhows)
Twitter isn’t a popularity contest to see how many twitter followers you can accumulate or attract. There’s not inherent value to this unless attracting a huge amount of followers is part of your twitter business/ego strategy. As the anti-social type you might not be making too many updates anyhows, so you really don’t need to worry about followers
2. Who said you had to make updates?
Twitter is an amazing tool for following the updates/latest news from your favourite online heroes and news sources, even just using Twitter in this way, as a content aggregation tool, can be very powerful.
3. Use it as a log-book
This is an idea that’s been bounded about by quite a few people, smarter, and better informed than me. But as twitter is in essence a micro-blogging tool, use it to jot down notes about work, life, love and the universe.
4. Use it as a bookmarks deposit
Twitter is perfect for making a note of links to cool articles, instead of focusing on posting cool/zany/topical article links, why not just use twitter to store links to websites you are interested in. You can access your twitter account from any computer so you’ll always have access to these bookmarks.
5. Use it to find a date
We’ve established that you’re anti-social, so meeting people for dates in the real world might be challenging, why not see if you can find any interesting or cool people online you can chat up, I’m sure there are stranger places romances have blossomed!
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