Thanks for your comment. I sometimes hesitate following people tweeting in a different language than English, but if I get the sense that what they say is consistent with their brand, and they seem to be someone I want to align with, I usually will follow them.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Twitter! I’m sure you’ll get the hang of it pretty quickly. Just keep at it.

Check out this post for some ideas:

Twitter Executive Branding Strategy: The Beauty of a Retweet — http://executivecareerbrand.com/twitter-executive-branding-strategy-the-beauty-of-a-retweet/

Happy tweets!
Meg

Quote: “If you have to talk about yourself all the time, you’re probably not that great.” I liked this very much too, it made me laugh. Also, the notion “social mediarrhoea” mentioned in Maarten van Rijn’s comment, is a very interesting one.

I’m new to Twitter, just one week. I’m reading articles on how to use Twitter. I think that what to tweet and how to tweet it, is a matter of common sense, as all the ways of communicating, and one rule: don’t do to others what you don’t like be done to you.
I’m still confused about hashtags and while thanking people who use my name in a tweet with them, I inform that I have no idea in which way they are used. I might know what the abbreviation means, but not how is used.

The only thing that bothers me on twitter is the limited 140 characters. I don’t like “killing” syntax or words. Also, I wanted to tweet a famous quote of an ancient philosopher, and due to 250 characters involved I put it in 2 consecutive tweets with a “-”. But the result was that only my 2nd tweet to be re-tweeted by someone, just because it had 1 word which suited them, providing a completely opposite message than the whole quote (in accordance with your #13 & #14 reasons). I blocked them and deleted both my tweets, although it bothered me I had to.

Thank you very much for your post. :)

Best,
Meg