| has emerged as one of the most powerful social | | | | Who knows, you might even get featured in an article |
| networking tools. Twitter is the home for many hip hop | | | | about twitter layouts and end up gaining a lot of |
| artists around the word. Even though Twitter is fairly | | | | subscribers because of it. |
| new, there are already hip hop artists such as Sean | | | | 5. Carrying on long conversations between two users. |
| diddy’ Combs who had success with | | | | The temptation to use Twitter like an IM service is |
| marketing on twitter. However, there as also been | | | | there, but to fill a timeline with replies to a single person |
| quite a few people who have made some mistakes | | | | in a short span of time is aggravating enough to make |
| when it comes to branding themselves on twitter. | | | | other followers reach for the unfollow button. If you |
| I have compiled a list of the 10 most frequent mistakes | | | | sense your convo will drag on, use direct messages, |
| hip hop artists make while using twitter: | | | | or better yet, just call the person the phone. |
| 1. Adding too many people at one time. So you want | | | | 6. Not making regular Twitter updates. If you want to |
| to brand yourself, yet you’ve got 50 people | | | | gain followers on Twitter, you need to post updates or |
| following you, while you’re following 2,001? How | | | | tweets at least once a day. You can’t expect |
| does that really portray you? If not only makes you | | | | people to follow you if they see that the last message |
| look extremely desperate but it also shows that | | | | on your feed was posted a month or two ago. |
| you’re not on twitter to build relationships with | | | | 7. Failing to add yourself to twitter directories. You |
| people, only to gain a vast amount of followers in | | | | want to gain followers but you don’t add |
| order to spam them with your links. Take it slow, let | | | | yourself to places to be found. Directories such as and |
| the follows come naturally. | | | | or powerful places to add yourself and be found by |
| 2. Bad photo. Using photos of inanimate objects on | | | | twitter users. Blacktwitters is a twitter directory for |
| your avataror profile picture, even worse-not using any | | | | African American twitters. |
| profile photo at all. People feel more comfortable | | | | 8. Tweeting famous people. Nothing looks more |
| interacting with people online when they know that | | | | obscured then to see unknown hip hop artists tweeting |
| they are communicating with a real person. | | | | things to Jim Jones like I sent you my mixtap but |
| 3. Posting nothing but totally random drivel daily. While | | | | you didn’t respond. This makes you look bad |
| this could work if you are only using the network to | | | | to your network and it's unprofessional. |
| connect with family and friends, if you are using | | | | 9. Selling in your tweets. You want to tell people about |
| Twitter for business then you should post meaningful | | | | your brand? Do it in your bio. Put your URL there and |
| messages that can help you grow your brand. You | | | | leave it at that. Focus your time and creating quality |
| can post promos, updates, and links to articles that | | | | filled tweets. If they like you, they’ll look into |
| provide value to people within your network. You can | | | | what you do because they enjoy what you’re |
| also post humorous tweets and other more personal | | | | saying and believe you are a valuable source, not just |
| tweets just make sure that they are interesting. | | | | someone who spams the twitter world with random |
| 4. Using the default twitter layout. If you are a | | | | buy the hot song tweets. |
| professional and want to be seen as so, take a few | | | | 10. Dising other hip hop artists. Internet beef are super |
| minutes to either create information packed twitter | | | | weak. |
| background, or at least something with some style. | | | | |