Can your readers actually learn something useful from your tweets?

Beverly Level X³

August 28, 2012, 5:56 pm

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Of course, there are lots of people using Twitter successfully for blog/site promotion. That is where you post a headline and then a link. But that's just advertising.

But if you think about it, the confined space in which you can make a tweet, poses a real challenge. It's not like a blog post, where you can expand your idea. Brevity and conciseness is the key to a good Tweet, not to mention, keeping it relevant to your target audience.

Is it actually possible to relay educational tips on your niche via Twitter?

For instance, if you had a beauty blog, could you really give a beauty tip in 14o characters or less?

"For clump free mascara store your tube in the fridge."

So there's one that would easily fit in a tweet.

How about internet marketing? Does this idea of posting useful, educational tips work for any other niche?

Could you make a tweet that your readers could learn from? Maybe share a few sample tweets like this.

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Tommy Matalino

Tommy Matalino

Of course, I do think people do learn from my tweets, especially those who are into the same interest and niche.

If you can't put the whole "tips" thing on your tweet, you can still link them to your blog where they could read more.

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Beverly

Beverly

Of course, I do think people do learn from my tweets, especially those who are into the same interest and niche.

If you can't put the whole "tips" thing on your tweet, you can still link them to your blog where they could read more.

Of course, Twitter is a good traffic generation device and can be used for backlinking. But it would be nice if people put more effort into making the tweets informational. In internet marketing, you have to give generously, not just backlink to show your readers you care about their interests.

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Tommy Matalino

Tommy Matalino

Of course, Twitter is a good traffic generation device and can be used for backlinking. But it would be nice if people put more effort into making the tweets informational. In internet marketing, you have to give generously, not just backlink to show your readers you care about their interests.

Twitter backlinking? But most links only stay at least a day or two depending on how frequently you tweet?

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Beverly

Beverly

Are you sure the tweets aren't archived? I'm pretty sure all tweets are assigned their own page. But they do roll off the home page or profile page of the person posting them. And, i'm saying that as i've actually found individual tweets in the past. But then again, i was searching for specific keywords. Maybe that makes a difference.

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Tommy Matalino

Tommy Matalino

Are you sure the tweets aren't archived? I'm pretty sure all tweets are assigned their own page. But they do roll off the home page or profile page of the person posting them. And, i'm saying that as i've actually found individual tweets in the past. But then again, i was searching for specific keywords. Maybe that makes a difference.

Yeah they are archived. You just need to go through your past tweets to get what you are looking for.
But I once read that Google cannot take "social signals" from Twitter since the site already blocked them from doing so. Is that true?

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Beverly

Beverly

Yeah they are archived. You just need to go through your past tweets to get what you are looking for.
But I once read that Google cannot take "social signals" from Twitter since the site already blocked them from doing so. Is that true?

So Google can't crawl these pages anymore? Not just crawl the links going offsite, but literally they can't access any of the pages? Do you have an article confirming this?

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Tommy Matalino

Tommy Matalino

So Google can't crawl these pages anymore? Not just crawl the links going offsite, but literally they can't access any of the pages? Do you have an article confirming this?

I don't have the article confirming this but I read one weeks ago.
Apparently, Google said that their bots are now blocked in Twitter from reading the pages...
I'll try to look for it.

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Jessica23Simm

Jessica23Simm

Of course, Twitter is a good traffic generation device and can be used for backlinking. But it would be nice if people put more effort into making the tweets informational. In internet marketing, you have to give generously, not just backlink to show your readers you care about their interests.

Hey Beverly. I agree with you. If the peoples doing informational tweets and re-tweets so that peoples can read, appreciate, follow that. It's also nice for the reputation growth for that particular person.

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barry

barry

If you can condense your info so it makes sense then you can help your readers learn something new.

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tionna

tionna

Readers can learn from your tweets. You just have to pick your words wisely in order to get the most out of it since you are limited to a certain number of characters.

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blueeyes

blueeyes

You can tweet some useful things, as long as you are able to summarize what you want to say in the allotted characters that you are given.

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angie828

angie828

Yes you can as long as you get to the point and add some relevant facts to what you are tweeting.

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Gjeloise

Gjeloise

Hey Beverly. I agree with you. If the peoples doing informational tweets and re-tweets so that peoples can read, appreciate, follow that. It's also nice for the reputation growth for that particular person.

Your readers will appreciate your helpful tips and return daily for more. That will probably keep them clicking through when you suggest a link/page to visit as they know you will only offer the best info.

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Tommy Matalino

Tommy Matalino

How about comments like, "get this product here" and "click here for more info"?

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angie828

angie828

How about comments like, "get this product here" and "click here for more info"?

This would be good if you had more info that you wanted to share.

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Beverly

Beverly

How about comments like, "get this product here" and "click here for more info"?

I don't really mind visiting links on Twitter, but I don't like seeing blatant ads.

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Corzhens

Corzhens

When I created a Twitter account I was expecting the tweets to be sensible especially with the accounts that have a lot of followers. But I found out that most of those popular accounts have nonsensical tweets that I consider garbage It is like tweeting instead of doing nothing. That may be the reason why I lost appetite to Twitter and my account is now inactive for a long time.

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