Social media marketing: 5 more tips for Twitter success

Twitterers can be a fickle bunch, especially when it comes to marketing using the service. For every marketer that succeeds on Twitter, there are ten more that are pushed out with cries of ‘spammer’ and slightly unjustified anti-marketing discussion. As much as certain areas of the internet love to be marketed to, Twitter users are highly selective in what they find worthy of being marketed on the platform.

That is the reason why you have got to achieve two things when you market on Twitter. The first, and in the long run, most important, is to build an audience that is happy with you being there.

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How (and why) to follow people on Twitter

For many people and businesses, Twitter is about getting as much followers as you can. Well, it’s not: it’s about getting valuable followers but about following valuable Twitter users too.

It’s simple to use a software that allows you to find people based on keywords in their tweets, start following them and then hoping they will follow you too. Don’t do it.

It’s also easy to start tweeting and follow few people back. Should you follow everyone back? No. Because there are a lot of Twitter users following automatically or because they want to sell you stuff (if you want to buy it, then there is no problem, right?)

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