I like what Jamie had to say above!

I’ve seen a range of listing from Gov Arnold to of course the people in my social class as well which has no presence in the media, yet with twitter, has grown credible building a reputation slowly and just enough to gain some kind of presence in our online world.

Even if twitter is just a hype now and gone tomorrow sort of thing, if you can take advantage of what it offers and utilize it to optimize what you’re trying to do as far as getting your blog or point across, i beleive you can benefit from it as much as the next person.

But being able to connect with the gurus and the major players in the niche you’re in really is beneficial.

sorry for the ranting, Tom.

Re: “Using blog name or personal name”
I would opt for using your personal name. It seems like you do that already though :-) I tweet under my nickname which incidentally is my blog’s name.

Re: “follow everyone or follow a select few”
I don’t exactly follow everyone and anyone that follows me. I try to. But sometimes, you get people who do nothing but spam your update stream. People who do nothing but selfishly self-promote their work. I think that dilutes the quality of the conversations that I have with people closer to me. When someone follows me, I research a little bit about who they are and then make a decision to follow or not.

Re: “only promote your new posts or ‘tweet’ about whatever you are thinking?”
There are a few tools (www.twitterfeed.com for example) that will automatically feed your blog to twitter. But again, I don’t like it when people do nothing more than share their own content. I prefer that they tweet about other things they find interesting and share their thoughts on that. So I say mix up your posts with stuff you find useful around the web and share that with your network. That’s what I try to do. I promote my own work sure, but I promote other peoples work much, much more!

Re: “How often should you ‘tweet’”
I think you should tweet as often as you’re comfortable tweeting. There’s no wrong or write way to do it. And there’s not set timeframe for how often you should tweet. I did notice however that you were updating your tweets via the web. One application that you might consider using is http://www.twhirl.com. It’s a twitter app. that sits on your computer and refreshes automatically. It pings you when people send you an @ reply or a DM. It’s a great tool to use and makes for more efficient use of twitter. You don’t have to sit there and constantly refresh your webpage. Another application to consider once you scale your number of users is Tweetdeck.com.

Anyway, those are my thoughts. I hope you find them helpful :-)

I still think Twitter is just a huge hype right now.

-Mike

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