Avoid Twitter Addiction

Posted by dr.pixel on November 11, 2009 in Dr.Pixel, Social Media tagged with ,

If you are like me, you love Twitter.

To avoid Twitter Addiction you don’t need to abandon Twitter,  just follow these recommendations allowing you to still be active on Twitter without getting burned out.

  1. Filter Your Tweets
    It is imperative to have a Twitter application like TweetDeck, Seesmic Desktop or Hootsuite to filter your tweets. Make a VIP column for yourself and put your favorite Twitter friends in that column so you don’t miss their tweets in the stream. This will save you time and frustration and will definitely keep the burn out feeling at bay for a while!
  2. Don’t Make Twitter a Contest
    Twitter is not a contest. There are so many sites that try to rate you on some ridiculous scale and so many people that will make you feel like you aren’t important if you don’t have a lot of followers. Don’t buy into any of that nonsense because the moment you do, Twitter becomes stressful and you’ll invite the burn out feeling! Twitter is a fun way to build relationships, spread joy and share important information. It is not a popularity contest.
  3. Build Relationships with the Right People
    It is better on Twitter to have a dozen rock solid relationships instead of trying to be friends with everyone. Here is a secret that all power tweeters know: If you have a handful of strong content providers that you’ve built relationships with, you will never be at a loss for great content to tweet. At any moment I can open my TweetDeck and see a ton of high quality information that I can retweet out to my followers. No stress, no searching, it is just there, always. That is what you want.
  4. Don’t Feel Obligated
    So many times I see people tweet things like, “I’m so sorry I was away for a while, but I’m back now,” and I feel bad for that person because I know they are feeling obligated. The moment Twitter becomes an obligation, the moment it isn’t fun anymore. The moment it isn’t fun anymore, the moment you’ll feel burned out. Sometimes you just have to walk away. Sometimes you forget to thank someone for a retweet and sometimes you get busy and forget to respond to a tweet. It happens. It’s okay. Twitter has to be one of your happy places, and that means, don’t feel obligated.
  5. Manage Your Time – Managing your time basically means you have to realize that you don’t have time to read everything in your stream on Twitter. Become a master scanner. Once you are filtering your tweets, this becomes very easy!
  6. Be Genuine
    If you want to keep the burn out feeling at bay, be genuine on Twitter. Be genuinely interested in getting to know your followers. Be genuinely interested in how Twitter works. Get a conversation going! When was the last time you got burned out doing something you were genuinely interested in?
Source : Bit Rebels

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