Twitter for real people

I love Twitter. I enjoy meeting new people and getting to know them. It's who I am and what I do. That's why I'm in the business I'm in.. I love people.
What I don't enjoy is being sold something all the danged time.. lol

While one of the reasons I Tweet is business.. my business is about people. I want to get to know the people I'm following and those I follow. #RT is fun and a great way to help others out.

I heard a while back that the best way to succeed is to help other succeed. Today was a perfect example. A fellow life coach Tweeted her coaching offer. It was a great idea and a good deal. I #RT for her. She wrote me a nice message. WE made friends.

A few hours later when I posted an invitation to join my LOA network.. guess what??
She #RT my Tweet.

My point is.. use Twitter to make friends not just sale something. The Tweets are going to PEOPLE.. not computers.

While I do talk about my articles and even give a link now and again to one of my sites.. over 95% of my Tweets are something to make people feel good, a wonderful video.. etc. It's not all about selling my business.. it's about connecting with fellow Beings.

Love yourself well.. always.
Donna
http://twitter.com/EarthMotherHeal

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Permalink Reply by Mike Cunningham on June 26, 2009 at 6:16pm: ___________________________
Donna,

Great post! Twitter is all about the Relationships. The numbers help but its the Real Relationships that make Twitter home. You've figured that out, thanks for sharing.

Mike Cunningham
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Permalink Reply by Paul Kyriazi on June 27, 2009 at 7:30am: You said it well Donna:

"The Tweets are going to PEOPLE.. not computers."

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Permalink Reply by Kent Computer Solutions Limited on June 29, 2009 at 3:28pm: Twitter is a great website that allows people & businesses to connect with others, stay in touch and see what their connections are doing.

We use Twitter for sharing our free blog posts and allowing people to view them, and stay up to date with what we are doing.

Regards,
~ KCS

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Permalink Reply by Laila on June 29, 2009 at 3:32pm: I just started with Twitter...and forgive my ignorance, but what is a #RT?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Kent Computer Solutions Limited on June 29, 2009 at 3:51pm: The # is a topic ..

IE...

#Corporate

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Permalink Reply by Laila on June 29, 2009 at 4:58pm: Cool - now what is RT? :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mike Cunningham on June 29, 2009 at 5:10pm: ___________________________
Laila,

Remember to use your Twitter ID on all Posts here.

RT is a Re-Tweet of Someone else's original Tweet. TweetDeck has this as a built in feature, which is another good reason to use TweetDeck rather than just a Web Browser.

Mike Cunningham
Watch for My New Internet Presence for 2009.

See my page for it now!

2009 The Biggest and Best Ever!

http://twitter.com/mike1mb
Also follow me, I'll follow you back.
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Permalink Reply by Laila on June 29, 2009 at 7:27pm: Thanks Mike! I am now on your tail!

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Permalink Reply by Donna on July 6, 2009 at 10:56am: Thanks everyone for reading and commenting.
I haven't been with Twitter long, but I have been in the people business for over 15 years. I realized a long time ago that these "customers" were people.
We humans love that one on one, that eye to eye, heart to heart sharing.
By keeping it real on Twitter and elsewhere in your business you attract people to YOU..not just your business.

If you aren't following me.. here's your chance..
http://twitter.com/EarthMotherHeal

Oh, and if you only post links through Twitter.. I will unfollow you, left 300 in the dust yesterday.
Twitter is about real content, real connection.. not just trying to get me to sign up for the latest way to make a quick buck online. I laugh and unfollow those..

Love yourself well.. always..
Donna DeVane
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Permalink Reply by Hilary Johnson on July 23, 2009 at 6:03am: I'm following you now. :o) Thank goodness I don't just post links!

The other thing that drives me up a wall is when people join those "get followers quick without doing anything" apps. I unfollowed a personal acquaintance because that's all the tweets in her timeline. Another friend signed up with one of those and I had to warn her to be careful. Quality followers drop you like a hot potato, or choose not to follow you at all.

All the followers I have I gained the hard way. One at a time after visiting each timeline and actually reading their tweets.

I've seen a number of Twitter Tweeple who have 1000's of followers and never, ever tweeted. What is the point???

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Permalink Reply by Ilene Asbury on August 12, 2009 at 8:46am: "get followers quick without doing anything". I hate those things too. Unfortunately, if you're curious and click on one of those "get followers" links, you're stuck. I clicked on one, spent about 15-seconds on the site and for weeks afterward, the site automatically posted several times a day to twitter using my name. I couldn't get them to stop. Now, fortunately, after about 6 weeks, they seem to have stopped. This is just a warning, I guess, to be careful about the links you click.

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Permalink Reply by Beaded Zen Designs on August 14, 2009 at 2:14am: Hello Donna,

I so agree that it shouldn't be all about promoting our business. We should take the time to get to know the people that we follow/ that follow us. I've met some amazing people behind the scenes that have been very helpful in ways I didn't expect. Thanks for posting

- Nikki
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