First, I want to congratulate everyone who has participated in the #HiveChat event on Twitter because this energy has resulted in something amazing: Cointelegraph Espanol wrote a story on how #HiveChat has organically trended on Twitter in Venezuela.
Check out the story here: https://es.cointelegraph.com/news/spanish-hive-community-becomes-a-trend-on-twitter-venezuela
I am organizing the weekly #HiveChat on Twitter, so if you want to host one, send me a DM on Twitter.
We are booked up through September but October is open.
The host for the next #HiveChat is @pixiepost, and she's a super active and engaged Hive community member. The #HiveChat Espanol event takes place every Thursday, and is organized by @victoriabsb and @enrique89 (I think). She runs the @hivelatino Twitter account and that's where the #HiveChat is being hosted.
Twitter is a very misunderstood communication tool.
Here are some tips to make you more successful on Twitter. There have recently been a lot of people complaining about the avalanche of Hive tweets, and I want to stress one thing today: quality over quantity.
We don’t want the entire world and crypto Twitter community to associate Hive with spam, but that’s been happening a lot lately.
Tip #1: Tweet Your Personal Story or Honest Opinion
Make a tweet by telling you personal story or honest opinion and use the #Hive tags very sparingly. See this example by @mintdreams, founder of the Makeup Power community:
Notice how she uses the #hive and #hivechat hashtags sparingly and in her sentence? Please emulate this style. She's a natural on social media.
Tip #2: Tweet About Other People
Write a tweet about someone else's content you value, even those who are not in Hive. It has to be geniune though, and not just an attempt to get their attention. Usually, if you find something valuable that someone else created, you can give them a shoutout on Twitter. See this example by @juliakponsford:
Tip #3: Tag People In An Image To Avoid Listing People in Tweets
Don’t write a long list of people to tag in Twitter.
If you need to tag a lot of people, post an image, then embed the people in that. This will stlll tag them, but it hides all their names. It looks really spammy to tag tons of whales in your tweet. Also, if your post doesn’t concern the people you’re tagging, then you’re just spamming them. Tag people sparingly. Don’t continue to spam Hive whales on Twitter. It’s not effective.
See and study this tweet to learn how to tag people (if you must tag people) in an image:
https://twitter.com/HivePeople/status/1296912239308558337
- HivePeople
Tip #4: Use Hive Hashtags Sparingly
The one exception to this is on Tuesdays during #HiveChat. Using the #HiveChat hashtag when you reply to a question is a must. I am talking about other times, outside of this event.
Hashtags are a way for people to find relevant tweets about topics they love. No one outside of Hive is searching for #Hive. We need to stop over-posting the #Hive and associated Hive hashtags because it’s not effective in bringing in people. It might work for certain people who are obsessed with Hive and don’t tweet about anything else. But when an army of people just endlessly tweets these Rah-Rah Hive hashtag tweets, it gets annoying.
Most of the hashtags you should use, should not be hive related. The hashtags you use should describe the content of your Tweet. What is your tweet about? Even if your tweet is about Hive, you can use these hashtags: #socialmedia #socialmediamarketing #cryptoTwitter #Bitcoin, & #crypto.
Whatever your passion is, you need to add hashtags that relate to your topic. Don’t use a ton of Hive hashtags because the only people who search for Hive hashtags are other Hivers. The whole point of us being on Twitter is to attract normal people from Twitter, who share our interests, into Hive. To do that, we need to be smart about the hashtags we use.
For example, I am into cryptoart. When I tweet about my newly released crypto art, I use the following hashtags that are from the entire field of cryptoart: #NFT, #ETH, #cryptoart, #digitalart, #rareart, #art, #hive. Notice that only one of my hashtags includes Hive. This is way less annoying that someone who only posts a ton of Hive hashtags. Doing that is actually a turn off to people who are not in Hive. We all need to get smarter on Twitter so we don’t turn off more people. Now is the time to learn how to use Twitter.
Here's another tweet that i found very high quality from @jongolson:
Notice how he uses storytelling, and also he gives a compliment to the writer TimCopeland who wrote this huge article about the Steem wars. It's a perfect tweet and should be studied and emulated.
Ok, see you all at the next #HiveChat on Tuesday at 12 GMT.
Stellabelle
Follow both my accounts on Twitter for more tips:
@HivePeople: https://twitter.com/HivePeople
@stellabelle: https://twitter.com/stellabelle
Shoutout to my Twitter support pals: @traciyork, @hivetrending and @hivelift. You all make it all good!
And thanks to @theycallmedan for the recent HP delegation. That rocks!
If you want to delegate to a Hive go getter, do it for @victoriabsb
She is running the #HiveChat Espanol event on Twitter and imo she's not getting as much support as she deserves from the Hive community. She's one of those people behind the scenes getting shit done. Give her a follow and an upvote.