Twitter has become a very good social-networking tool for bloggers, but did you know that twitter can help improve your blogging skills to? With 140 characters per tweet…your very limited to what you can say. This forces bloggers to use the most effective words they can and also tweet the most valuable information and avoid the useless information.
Use Twitter to improve your blogging skills
No reader want’s to take the time and read through a 800 word article and only 300 of those words are useful. Take the time and make your blogs post clear and concise. Don’t waste your time beating around the bush…get straight to the point!
Think of Twitter as your blog. If you only had 140 characters to type what would they be? Are they going to be clear and concise or will they beat around the bush? I can tell you from a readers point of view, they’d rather read a short post that gets to the point, instead of a post that takes ages to get the point across. It gets pretty annoying at times reading through worthless shit right? Right.
Take Uniqueblog for an example…in under 300 words we are able to deliver you short, but effective articles. So…do you really need to write all that much to impress a reader? No, all you need is clear, concise content and if you have trouble doing so Twitter is the way to start.
Group Discussion
Are you a blogger that focuses their articles on X amount of words per article, and will do whatever means necessary to get their? Do you blog but unintentionally post information that is not needed? If so…did you know this is harming your blog. Bloggers and readers share your input on this.
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Twitter is powerful yes but in the 2 month time I have been using it, I found that it has some annoying problems. Well, not Twitter itself, but the community. Like for example people that spam-follow others to get followed back. I get a few “FollowMeGetRich” types of followers every day and that tempts me to actually block some accounts from following me.
In my opinion, the most important thing is: Provide quality tweets.
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I really am having a hard time having my twitter followers to be increased.
I usually write long enough to put my point across, so most of my posts might not be so long but don’t subscribe to a definite number of words.
I’m a Twitterer. It’s the best way to write tight and I’m constantly summarizing and getting rid of fluff words. Netizens have such a short attention span nowadays that it feels like Twitter was created to fill a great need, and it does.
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Still learning how to optimize Twitter AND my blog, but appreciate the point you are making here….good to keep brevity and quality in mind at all times.
I am on my 2ND account, with Twitter, I deleted an account with 800 plus spammers several month ago, just started a new account a few months ago. I am closing in on 100 again and hating it. There is no personal interaction to get or give any thoughtful advice on any subject in my opinion.
However, you point is true, I am actually using Facebook in that regard where my REAL friends actually reside. Twiiter is just a portable for a short urls….for me.
All great tips. Twitter if used the right way is a huge benefit to any blogger.
From sending traffic and building a community.
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