How to Keep Up With Tweets

Let me just start off with this: You won’t be able to keep up with everyone’s tweets. Even with a fol­low­ing of 100 peo­ple it’s going to be dif­fi­cult, let alone when you have thou­sands. Just admit to your­self right now that your not going to catch every tweet. If you try to keep up with every tweet you’ll waste your day away. Which isn’t good for your business.

So what do you do to orga­nize your tweets? Your going to want to pick the tweet­ers that have the best value and orga­nize them into groups. This does two things. First you will be able to keep a bet­ter eye on impor­tant tweet­ers. Peo­ple that pro­vide you value or are enter­tain­ing for you. Sec­ond it takes a big part of the bur­den off of you try­ing to keep up with so many tweets. You can set aside a spe­cific time to go through every­one elses tweets.

The key here is to make groups or lists. There are a few ways to do this, the newest being Twitter’s very own lists they just recently started. I haven’t had a chance to dive into it just yet, but it’s very sim­i­lar to cre­at­ing groups in third party pro­grams such as Hoot­suite or Tweedeck, which is what I use.

The point is your going to cre­ate groups just for spe­cific tweet­ers. Do you have cer­tain peo­ple that make very infor­ma­tive tweets? Make a group and call it some­thing like “infor­ma­tive” or “valu­able”. When you put those peo­ple in that spe­cific group only their tweets will show up. Mean­ing their tweets won’t get lost in the sea of the main tweets.

Make as many groups as you need. Make one for peo­ple that tweet great quotes. Make a group for funny tweets. The point is your sep­a­rat­ing them from the rest of the chaos so that you can find the tweets that are impor­tant to you.

My next cou­ple posts I’m going to go over the actual process of mak­ing a group in Tweet­deck and Hoot­suite and I will also check out the Twit­ter lists as well and let you know how that goes. From what I have done with it so far, it’s very easy. Talk to you soon!

~Chris

Do you have other pro­grams that you use to help you keep track of tweets?

Sim­i­lar Posts:

• Cre­at­ing Groups With Hootsuite
• Cre­at­ing Groups With Twitter
• Cre­at­ing Groups With Tweetdeck

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