How to Positively Initiate Conversation Using Twitter
Everyday that passes Twitter becomes more mainstream. Twitter is not just for the “tech savvy” anymore – no – Twitter is fast becoming the platform of choice to initiate conversation for everyone from your co-workers, your organization, your friends & family & your government right before our very eyes.
There are a few different ways to positively initiate conversation on Twitter. Let’s take a brief look at a few of these ways.
The Broadcaster: We all know these types and sometimes, I feel, they get mislabeled as spammers – sometimes correctly but not always. There seems to be a source of negative feelings towards this type of user.
Broadcasters initiate the conversation by systematically posting information that is of potential interest to their followers and perhaps a link to a source of more detailed information. By staying on topic and not overwhelming their followers, broadcasting can be great way to bring awareness to your cause.
The Inquisitive: These twitterers are taking advantage of the potentially large pool of expertise at their fingertips. The Inquisitive twitterer initiates conversation by stimulating their community with inquiries – sometimes purely for the conversation that will ensure or simply for personal use.
The Conversationalist: This twitterer sees Twitter as a community in which they would like to make a connection with. This twitterer that wants to communicate with as many people as possible. They want to rant, they want to rave and they want to hold two way discussions with other conversationalists. The Conversationalist initiates & participates in conversation – The Conversationalist is a network builder.
The thing about Twitter is that there are really much more than just the three basic types of twitterers discussed above and depending on the type to twitterer you are you’ll probably follow more of one type than another. The simplicity of Twitter allows for the user to find their own niche in Twitter’s ecosphere – to become their very own Twitter species with their own characteristics initiating conversation in their very own unique way.
beebo.wallace is a guest blogger for GreenvilleTweets and can be followed at http://twitter.com/beebo_wallace or you can view all posts by beebo.wallace
