Tim O’Reilly hosted a webex presentation for his new book on Twitter. #twitterbook. They shared their strategies and here are some highlights.
Tim shared his process for collecting tweetable content throughout the day and metering out his tweets across the timespan of the day. Being thoughtful and mindful of the type of content that various constituants would be interested in based on time of day. Example: programmers are up late at night, so he saves his technical tweets until late in the evening. And another example: He tweets European-focused information during times when the Europeans are most likely online.
He also sees himself as a filter of information for the people that follow him. He does due dilligence on most of his ReTweets and all of his Tweets. Example: he will check out the linked site to see if it is legit and then write a new tweet to give his perspective on the content.
A link to a site about MINDCASTING. A term I had not heard of, review to come shortly.
Advanced Search Features
On the advanced tab of twitter you can gather very specific types of information for research.
the twitter retweet and activity tale
Most of the activity on a given tweet happens within the first few minutes of the tweet. So Tim spaces his tweets out across the day. And if the information is important, he will ReTweet himself, perhaps rewrite the tweet, several times during the day or week depending on his objective.
@jmacofearth
permalink: http://bit.ly/twitterbook-r
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