Ok, I have to admit it, I was a late bloomer with Twitter. where most of my colleagues have been on it for more than a year, I just adopted it about 2 months ago. At first, I was a little disappointed with it, but with some cool software tools like Tweetie, and filters, I started finding it very useful to get information out to whoever wanted to hear it.

The problem is that there is still a lot of “spam” out there that people need to start controlling. You need to look at twitter as a way that you can mass email all of your followers at once. Knowing that most people follow tens if not hundreds of people, be selective on what you tweet. For me, I ask myself 2 very simple questions before I tweet:

1.
“Why is it that people follow me? Is it my good looks, personality, or my opinion on post-war baseball card collections? Probably not. They are most likely following me because of my knowledge as an SEO consultant, Advertising CEO, or something like that, so I am going to make sure that most my tweets are based around this premise.

2.
“Would I send this message that I am about to tweet out in an email form to everyone in my contact list? Would it have value to them or would I be wasting my time and start losing contacts?”

Stick to posting messages that are based off of why I am following you. Lets all fight to keep spam off the airways. I follow about 100 people, and I really wish it could be highly-valuable content whenever one of those people tweets.

##Danny DeMichele is the CEO of eVisibility.com##

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