The Do’s of tweeting:

• Tweet interesting things.
• Share pictures and links with services like twitpic
• It is OK to tweet your blog posts, but it turns people off if that’s all you do.
• Retweet others frequently when they have tweeted something good.
• Reply to individuals in public if you think others would be interested.
• Tweet at least every other day.
• Be happy and positive.
• Be human.
• Thank new followers by following back if you haven’t yet.
• Recheck profiles of people you are not following from time to time.  Some twits just need a little while to get the hang of it.
• Follow the followers of people you really like.
• Use a third party twitter client such as tweet deck to manage the twits that you follow into groups.  
• Give the people you like some time to follow you back.
• Try to follow about as many people as follow you.

The Don’ts of Tweeting:

• Don’t tweet more than about 4 or 5 times a day.
• Don’t blather on about what you are eating unless you intend to share the recipe
• Don’t put private communications the public twitterstream
• Don’t publically welcome all your new followers. Imagine reading pages of that.
• Do not join a “monetize your tweets” service such as Magpie, as it will make people dump you.
• Do not brag about how many followers you have.  Everyone can already see that.
• Do not ask for more followers. Boring!
• Do not tweet things like “Gaaaaaaah”. We need context.
• Do not send an auto-direct message thanking each new follower and sending them your pitch. Direct Messages are individual and personal.
• Do not direct message followers whom you are not following because they can’t direct message you back
• Do not follow people just to get them to follow you back and then unfollow them.
• Do not do mass follows, or you will be considered a spammer even if you never tweet.
• Do not exclusively follow “Rock stars.”  Follow a few interesting noobs.  They’ll love you for it. 
• Don’t just read your direct messages and replies. Dip into the stream from time to time.

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