With all the recent blog posts and Tweets that dictate to you how to use Twitter. What I’m saying is use it as YOU want too!!.
How Did This All Start?
This all started because of the amount of tweets I was seeing directing people to blog posts about Twitter. Not with great information either, but with bloggers literally dictating to people how to use Twitter, and then ripping apart people that do not use it the way they do!!. SERIOUSLY LET PEOPLE DO WHAT THEY WANT!.
I was going to let this fly until I saw this tweet this morning from Traci Knoppe from http://genesisblogging.com/ , who im a huge fan of!.
And I could not agree more!!. @traciknoppe by the way;).
A Guide, Not A Set Of Rules
I know you might be thinking “Yes but didn’t you write a book on Twitter?”. Which is true, but its not a book in which I say you MUST use it this way, its just a guide on ways you can use Twitter if you wanted too. And if you don’t that’s just fine you learn the way you want too.
You have to let people experiment by themselves!, do you know how boring Twitter would be if we all used it the same way?. And what gives people the right to tell others what to do anyway?, are they Twitter Police now?, because I have a great place for them to stick that badge if they are!.
The worst thing has been some of the comments to the posts telling people how to use Twitter. Like “I will unfollow anyone who does not use it this way”, or “People are idiots who use it like that”, and my all time favorite is “Now after reading this post I unfollowed people, and I also sent them the reason why!”. what a LOSER!.
If someone sent me a tweet about why they unfollowed me, I would laugh so hard my I would not be able to type another tweet!, EVER!. Where does this get them?, what does it achieve?.
For them it must achieve a feeling of belonging to a blogger they probably do not know, will never meet, and who probably could not care less if they never Twittered again!. But because they are running around on Twitter yelling at others, they feel like they had a constructive day.
If this is you then this is how you use Twitter from my side of things. You must now go all over Twitter-world telling everyone you see to follow @edawg, and then have them donate me money!, if you do not do this within 20 mins you Twitter account will be deleted, and you will probably be arrested and sentenced to life by The Twitter Police!.;)
Right, GO!!.
Give Yourself Credit
If you are new or old on Twitter and you find a guide on how to use it, then thats great, by all means read it and take all the information you can get from it. But don’t treat it as the be all and end all of Twitter guides, by doing this you are just limiting yourself and your Twitter profile.
And if you do stumble across a blog post yelling and screaming about how you should use Twitter, just take it with a pinch of salt and be thankful that if you are unfollowed by someone reading that post, it just saved you time in the future clearing out your followers from the ones that do not benefit you, or add anything worth while in anyway!.
Learn Twitter as you want too, try things out and don’t be afraid. Just don’t limit yourself to a set of rules you must conform with or else!. The best way to learn anything is by trial and error and doing it. You might even find new great ways to enjoy Twitter that you would not have done before. But if you never try, you never know.
