A couple of months back I published a post outlining my opinion on Twitter Etiquette...if there really is such a thing. To sum up the post I offered my take on follow to follow (the practice of following those who follow you). I received a lot of feedback about that idea. Those opposed to this practice mentioned not wanting to be bothered with tons of people in their Twitter stream sharing 140 character jibberish that they really weren't interested in reading....and that makes great sense. However, there's a way around that problem that I recently discovered. Let me share.
Your Twitter homepage shows you things like your profile pic, how many people you're following, how many people are following you and the number of lists you've been included in.
For the longest I had no clue how to create a list or why I would need to. Well that's back when I only had about 1,600 people following me. Now I have close to 6,000 and believe me...that can be very confusing....and that's where lists become critical.
Your lists can be whatever you want them to be. I currently have ten lists but you can create as many as you like or as few as you'd like. This is a perfect way to catalog and categorize your followers.
Each time you follow someone take the time to read their bio and take a look at their timeline. Is this person a blogger, musician, counselor.....do they live in the same part of the country as you.....maybe you share the same occupation in real life.
Once you've gotten your lists started it's time to put them to use.
Maybe today I only want to tweeter with my "southern girls". I click on that listing and I'll only see tweets from people I have in that particular list. All of your followers will see your tweets but you'll only be able to see those from folks in that list. So, occasionally clicking on your @roschelle or @whateveryourtwitternameis will show you tweets that have been sent directly to you.
Hopefully, this doesn't sound like a lot of work. I usually have lots of fun with it. Happy Tweeting!!!
