Twitter is an exciting, cool, and extremely profitable social network site. Millions of people are now using the site to talk about various subjects. Indeed, it is a micro-blogging site for those who can’t stop talking. There are also common mistakes that most new users commit on Twitter. Before you start sending tweets, you must be aware of these common mistakes.

Mistake number 1 – the picture on your avatar is not yours. Most new users don’t post their real picture. They often use cartoon pictures, company logos, or their pet’s pictures. Although the pictures are quite cute, most Twitter users will appreciate a real picture of you. When you post your true picture on Avatar, others will think that you’re real and that you’re confident enough to let others see you. If you’re going to upload a photo, choose the ones where you give a beautiful smile. A smile can easily brighten the day of others.

Sending direct messages automatically are often impersonal and pushy (although if done properly and in good taste can gain you HUGE exposure). TweetLater is a great tool that sends automatic messages. When you use this tool, messages are automatically sent to those who follow you. A message saying ‘thanks for following me’ is fine but sending automated messages promoting your business or product in a pushy or tasteless way is not a good idea and most people will just frown at them.

If you want to have followers, you need to follow people and at least create an interesting profile page. There are a bunch of free backgrounds you can load directly to your profile to spiff it up. It’s fast and easy. A great site that I found is TwitterBackgrounds. You will get and keep followers by regularly posting updates. If you keep on following people and yet you don’t make updates on your page, you generally won’t get enough followers.

The 140-character tweets should be used to answer the Twitter question. Answering that question once a day may be enough to let others know that you’re interested in the community. You can post what you’re doing for the day or where you plan to go for the night. Tweets are great for starting conversations. You can also re-tweet other users or send them comments.

Check your numbers regularly. It’s not good to follow many people when you have very few individuals following you. Try to achieve balance. Make sure that the one you follow will also follow you back and you should also appreciate the ones who follow you. This is the easiest way to make friends on Twitter. This is more appropriate if you are only wanting to be a casual Twitter user. If you are building Twitter for marketing purposes you will want to follow as many people as possible at first… I’ll go into more detail in another post on this subject though.

You can use tools like Tweetdeck so that you don’t need to stay online all the time. Through this application, you can divide your followers into groups that you can easily track, especially when they send direct messages and replies.

If you keep on promoting your business all the time, everyone will probably just ‘unfollow’ you. No one likes a person who talks about his business or product most of the time. You have to learn to respect others. After all Twitter is a social network.

You must learn how to communicate and build good relationships before you start bombarding them with promotions. Even if you already have a god list of leads, it is still not a good idea to barrage them with promotions. Promotional tweets should be sent in limited numbers only and generally should not be sent to opt in pages or sales pages. Rather, use a blog and case your promotion in education and value.

These are the common mistakes committed by new and old tweeters. You may want to take note of them so you don’t commit the same mistakes.

Have fun tweeting my tweeps!

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