Tips in live twitting

Live-tweeting events is an easy way to
promote an organization’s online
presence and—if it’s done well—
generate meaningful content for your
Twitter account.
When you’re hosting or attending an
event, it is well worth taking along a
fully charged smartphone, tablet, or
laptop and posting some updates.
Below are five things you should keep in
mind when you’re planning to live-tweet
an event:
1. Use the event hashtag.
If there isn’t an event hashtag, make
one up. Just keep it short, because every
character counts. Using a hashtag will
group all your tweets, enabling people
searching for the event hashtag (or
the hashtag you think up) to find them.
It also makes it clear to your followers
that you are tweeting about a certain
event , not just spouting off random
sound bites.
2. Tag speakers and companies in your
tweets.
This will not only make your presence
known to those participating, but will
also increase your chances of being
retweeted.
3. Engage with other live-tweeters.
Use the hashtag to search for others
who are tweeting and start a
conversation. From there, you can
always ask to take the conversation
offline.
4. Don’t tweet too much.
You will overwhelm your regular followers
who will not appreciate a barrage of
out-of-context tweets. Though there is
no ideal number of tweets, you should
decide where the balance lies between
over-dominating the conversation and
not contributing enough.
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5. Take pictures, and incorporate them
into your tweets.
Tweets with pictures are 94 percent
more likely to be retweeted, according to
Social News Daily , so use that camera

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