Whatever platform, the basics are the same. Listen to your connections, talk to a person, not the group and treat all as friends 🙂

Today, I mostly go for connection with a person.. the platform really doesn’t matter. I just talk where I find people 🙂

I agree. I end up saying the same thing, referring to the same URL and bringing back topics all the time.

You can use the same exact tweet. Reports of it being disallowed are just wrong.. However, it’s so easy to write 140 chars, I just don’t bother 🙂

Twitter frowns upon repeat tweets with the same exact text and link. While it may have proven successful for some, most people will be setting themselves up for account suspension.

Be creative, add value, be genuine… keep your main link in your bio and let people find you. Let them ask you about what you’re doing.

I have not advocated a policy. I’m showing results of a study. What you or I do, or how we feel about it was not the intent of this post. Guy Kawaski’s research has been tested by me, and others. It’s a fact.

I do not advocate for automation to repeat tweets. I also do not advocate using Twitter to send people to a “sign up page” I share content, not ads, so your assumption that I’m using Twitter in a certain way is mistaken. Most of my tweets are answers to other tweets. The URL’s I share are mostly posts and news pieces that I know my audience is looking (I know because they tell me).

Further. I don’t advocate for using the same URL and tweet repeatedly. I do use the same URL in new tweets, especially when answering questions.

I hope you’ll continue to advocate engagement with real people talking to each other on Twitter, or any other network

I totally agree with you on your view on repeating the same URL “I try to add value with a comment”. I think adding the value is the key point. And the best part is you “watch the numbers” which most casual Twitter users ignore and cause trouble with Twitter spam boat/team.

I would say a large number of twitter users may not agree with the Twitter policy you’ve been advocating since most of them come to Twitter with the hope that “I” can reach out to millions of people.

What annoys me with the same URL tweets or RT is that, with the automation they have the same repeated url send me to the same landing page which is nothing more than a sign up page. Does it really give any value? I don’t think so. Instead of sending the followers to the same sign up page 4 times a day, direct them to a rich content page which give real value. Most of them fail to create or lazy to create rich content page and use the same old sign up page.

Thanks again Warren for the rich content and your efforts to educate people in social media.

Sunish

Look like you are suggesting that I do what I’ve been doing for six years, and what I’ve been teaching since I wrote the first book about Twitter back in 2008.

Great advice. Glad to see we agree on so much.

This post was talking about repeating tweets and I do that from time to time, measuring what get the most discussion and conversation between my network and myself. Most of them aren’t MY posts. 🙂

Anyway, the numbers are the point of interest here. Some have tried to tell me that Twitter will ban an account for using the same URL twice or that massive number unfollow due to a single tweet. Since I watch the numbers on my account and talk to up to 100 people a day in individually conversations I’ve pretty much seen it all 🙂

The only slight disagreement I have your wonderful advice. I really believe NO RULES, and don’t assign percentage splits. If I did, it would be very close to what you stated 🙂