For quite some time NuVisions has been researching what people have to say on posting frequencies. Post too often and you smother your followers, but post too seldom and people lose interest in you. Both articles and blogs I’ve read state the same thing: it’s about quality, not quantity. Do you agree? How often do you tweet? How often do you think you should tweet?

I know I’ve personally unfollowed people because they posted too often. I’d log into twitter and find half or more of the tweets on my homepage were from the same user. It was hard to find anyone else’s tweets amongst his. He’d post 6 tweets in 15 minutes. On the flip side, I’ve also followed people who post infrequently that when I actually see a tweet from them, I don’t remember even following them.

What is an appropriate amount of time to wait in-between tweets? If you post too close together, you ignore the basic principle of twitter, 140 characters or less. You tweet 5 tweets in a row, it feels more like a blog post rather than a tweet. But tweet too far apart and you fall off your follower’s home page.

Do you count re-tweets (RT) as tweets? Replies? All of these factor in to your frequency. NuVisions wants to hear your thoughts. Comment here reply to us on Twitter @nuvisions.

TweetLater is a productivity tool that allows you to schedule automatic direct messages and set your tweets to post at intervals when you are busy. There is a free version and a professional version, describing many alluring services. But think about your followers, don’t they want personal interaction with you rather than an automated service? It’s similar to ghostwriting, some people don’t mind it, others find the behavior upsetting. Do you use TweetLater or a similar service? Tell us about it!

Jenny Cromie (@JennyCromie) explores “8 Sure-Fire Ways to Tick Off the Twitterverse” in a blog post on twitip.com. Do you agree with her list? Give us your list.

1. TwitterNarcissist – “Cluttering up your page with inane details”
2. TwitterSpammer – Following you to sell you something and obviously didn’t read your bio
3. TwitterDigMeDude – “Having thousands of followers but who follow no one”
4. TwitterBoty – “Repeating themselves because they are afraid you might not have ‘heard’ them the first, second, third, or even fourth time.”
5. TwitterDumbLinker –“Telling me that something is funny and that I should click on a link isn’t enough”
6. Twittermatic – Having an “automatic, canned response that they sent to everyone after that initial Twitter linkup”
7. TwitterJabberJaw – “Dominating my screen, and apparently, not taking a breath—every day, all day long”
8. TwitterSmarmySales – “Taking up Twitter space to sell your services, toot your horn about how awesome your business is, or aggressively market whatever it is you’re trying to market.”

Cited: http://www.twitip.com/8-sure-fire-ways-to-tick-off-the-twitterverse/

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