We love Twitter! We really do but there is one big Twitter no-no that bugs us more than any other. Read on to find out what it is. Trust us, if you do this one thing, you will lose followers.
Let’s say you have a website, something like this one. You decide to Tweet links to the site. We do that here at Computers Made Simple. We don’t tweet for every post we add but we do for most of them. We tweet links to this site, to a post that offers information that is helpful. That makes sense, right? Let’s see what some unscrupulous people do.
1. This Twitter account tweets links. Here are some examples:
2. You would think that these links might lead to the site that has the information on the story that the tweet is about. Wrong!
How frustrating is that? You click on the link in the tweet, thinking that it leads directly to the story described in the tweet. Instead, you are lead to the site owned by the Twitter account which posted the tweet. You have to click on the words ‘View Story’ to get to the information referenced in the tweet. The posting profile gets hits on their site but your time is wasted. See the ads? They are all over the place. We’re surprised that Google and Twitter allow this kind of activity but it seems that they do.
If you’re going to tweet links, make sure that they are direct links to the information you mention in the tweet. Don’t aggravate your followers by wasting their time like this.
Thanks for reading!