Twitter is the leading traffic generator for FUEL LINES. One of the best helps I found when I first started using this tool came from Angela Maiers, educator, author, blogger who now leads Maier Educational Services.
Angela developed a simple Twitter Engagement Formula that provides purpose and direction for her participation. She calls it the 70-20-10 Formula:.
Share Resources (70) – Successful learning in the 21st Century is not what you know, but what you can share, so 70 % of my Twittertime is spent sharing others voices, opinions, and tools.
Collaborations (20) – 20% of my Tweets are directly responding, connecting, collaboration, and co-creating with like-minded Twitter colleagues. From these important tweets, lifelong professional and personal relationships have been forged.
Chit-Chat (10) 10% of my Twittertalk is “chit-chat-how’s-your-hat” stuff. It is in these “trivial” details shared about working out, favorite movies, politics, and life in general that I connect with others as a human being. These simple chit chats are what have allowed me to know that I am never alone, and there is support whenever, wherever, and however I need it!
Angela reminds her readers that their engagement formula will be different but hers provides a good example and a place to get started. Angela says to, “Engage with purpose and intention, and Twitter success will follow!”
Read the entire “My Twitter Engagement Formula” article.
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I agree with your formula, I spend most of my time trying to share things that interest me, and through that i’ve built a fantastic network of people to communicate and collaborate with. I call twitter the “karmic social network” because you get the network you deserve. What ever you put out there you get back 10 fold.
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I like the 70-20-10 concept, ‘cuz it’s not exclusive to advertising. And it’s roughly what I do… or at least what I’ve always thought I should do… or what I try to do.
Links you provide need to be relevant, of course. A mix of amusing, surprising, ultimately enlightening, but most importantly – if you desire business relationships – useful, in the context of how what you’re familiar with can help your peeps.
Thanks Bruce. The formula was a big help to me in figuring out how best to utilize Twitter which has now become the leading traffic generator to my blog.
Not that I’m impressed a lot, but this is a lot more than I expected for when I found a link on Digg telling that the info here is awesome. Thanks.
Good job bro Mp3 dinle