How to use Twitter for your professional development

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The list of social networks that can be used in your professional development is not restricted to LinkedIn alone. Twitter, too, has very strong potential in this regard. Twitter is a website where users can send messages no more than 140 characters in length, so-called ‘tweets’, which are then displayed on the profiles of users and their followers. The following 25 tips on using Twitter for your professional development have been suggested by edudemic.com.

  1. Make the most of the space available to you in your profile to provide professional information about yourself. You should also choose a professional-sounding username.
  2. Use a professional photograph and allow others to connect with you.
  3. Create and forward relevant information that could be useful to your followers.
  4. Follow a number of people and gain more followers. However, you should only choose users whose opinions you are genuinely interested in.
  5. Take part in chats, of which there are currently around 700 on Twitter.
  6. Make your tweets publicly available so that other people can find them and find out about you.
  7. Build your own, personal Twitter brand through the regular sharing of messages from your field.
  8. Follow users who share a lot of information from your field.
  9. Prior to an important meeting or conference, contact the participants via Twitter so that it’s easier to break the ice.
  10. Now and again share some personal observations so that you come across as being more authentic.
  11. Follow the leaders in your field.
  12. Communicate politely and diplomatically so that your online image remains professional.
  13. Tweet regularly.
  14. Examine your options for using Twitter to find new or more interesting employment.
  15. Connect with new people, as well as old acquaintances who start using Twitter.
  16. Present yourself as a specialist in your field.
  17. Pose questions to encourage others to share their opinions.
  18. While you needn’t follow all your followers, at least read through their profiles.
  19. Use hashtags (words or phrases marked with the hash symbol #) to mark topics that you are talking about.
  20. Use Twitter to communicate with colleagues who you don’t often see personally.
  21. Become the leader of your community. Actively build your own network, invite other users and support communication between the members of your community.
  22. Use an RSS channel to follow specific information that interests you, so that nothing escapes your attention.
  23. Offer help to others whenever you can. Answer questions, share questions and so on. You will learn a lot yourself in the process.
  24. Only use your strong standing on Twitter when you need it, for example to say that you are looking for a new job or to ask about questions that you cannot answer yourself.
  25. Once you start, build your Twitter brand on a long-term basis. Be consistent in your behaviour. Use applications, for example TweetDeck, to manage your activities on Twitter.

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