Regarding #8. Using the reply function when you should use a direct message. Not every reply needs to be share with your entire Twitter audience. Almost all replies should probably be sent by Direct Message to the person.

My experience, my followers don’t want to see a lot of one-to-one conversation. What they are most interested in are Tweets that are informational. So, most of what I share through Twitter are resources, mine and a mixture of other sources that I think will be of interest to my audience.

My point-of-view, for what it is worth … A lot of one-to-one conversations that aren’t helpful to the majority of followers would work better through direct messages.

That differs from the way some of my friends who have large Twitter followings are doing it. But when I click on their profiles to see what some of them have Tweeted about recently, there’s almost nothing in their Tweets that is pointing me to helpful content, either from their own content or content from other sources.

Regarding the photo. I liked the image. Which is clearly evident that someone made a huge mistake in building that building … thought it tied in well with the title for this post … Twitter Mistakes. Just a personal preference, instead of posting a Twitter logo or another variation of the Twitter bird.

Thanks in advance! I’m in the process of sussing out the potential benefits for our agency to have a blog/twitter, and your insights are a great source of inspiration. I wish you the best in all your social media-flavoured endeavours!