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Welcome to the Twecosystem

Posted on 24. Jan, 2008 by Marc in Uncategorized

Over the last couple of months, Twitter has grown in leaps and bounds. Even in South Africa, we have had quite a good growth of Tweeters joining the Twecosystem. (OK, excuse the Twit Jargon…Twecosystem ©Rafiq)

But there seems to be a growing trend amongst Tweeters worldwide not using the system as it was intended. People seem to be using it as a chat system to talk between each other. It can sometimes really get annoying when all you see is one worded irrelevant replies being posted.

Darren Prowse from Problogger has written a brilliant post about how to use Twitter and how to promote your blog using Twitter. I highly recommend this article, as it explains Twitter in great detail.

One of his suggestions to curb the noise generated in on Twitter is to use direct messages:

Learn to Use Direct Messages

“If your reply tweet ratio is out of balance in that you ‘reply’ too much a good way to combat the problem is to consider using direct messages. My own approach to this is that I almost always publicly ‘reply’ to something that someone has Tweeted the first time – but if the conversation continues I’ll take the conversation to ‘direct messages’ after the second or third reply unless I think the conversation has something of value to my wider following community.”

To use direct messaging on Twitter you need to do the following:

“d username message” eg. “d marcforrest great post :)”

I’m sure by using this method there will be far less noise in the Twecosystem, and lots more topical conversation

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