Using Twitter With Purpose

twitter for writers

by Catherine L. Tully

Do you just get on Twitter and tweet away about whatever comes to mind? If so, you aren’t taking full advantage of the power of this social networking tool. Writers need to be thinking about how they are marketing themselves and their services when they post.

To that end, I’d like to point out a Twitter Guide that breaks a lot of the information out there down in a very palatable way. Mashable divides things up into three common sense categories…

Twitter 101–the basics, building your Twitter community and Twitter for business. What you need to read depends on what you already know and what you are trying to do with your social media strategy (you do have one, don’t you?). Take a look and see what pearls of wisdom you can walk away with…