OK -- so I'm not a Twitter Professonal, but I tweet. I'm 42 and I've kinda found my way -- so when a friend in my age range asked me to help her figure it out, this is what I came up with as a first draft.
What do you think?
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Twitter is a new animal. It is such a different thing than the rest of social networking, you simply have to let it be what it is and discover how you two get along :)
It is actually very simple. You set up an account and you say something (as long as its under 140 characters) and you hit send. Unfortunately no one sees it -- because you have to have followers to have people see what you're saying! So, in order to have people follow you, you need to go make some Twitter friends. You search for people you know, people who have similar interests to you, people who live locally to you, etc. You "follow" them -- and in turn, you hope they'll follow you back.
Now when you say something, someone sees it. Most often (99% of the time) they will not respond. Don't be offended. They may not have seen your one tweet in their long list of tweets that the hundreds of other people they follow sent. So you say more stuff more often.
Then people start to see what you're saying, comment back, have conversations, build relationships.
There are many ways to sort these conversations so you don't miss the good stuff in the midst of the banal... that's for lesson #2.
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