Twitter is a microblog and social network that is quickly changing the world by enabling people to communicate to the internet using any cellphone. Twitter is a very convenient and a simple way to send a message out to the world without a computer present.

Unfortunately, after a short time on Twitter, you can find it to be extremely annoying. To deal with this I have created 10 Twitter tips that can fix your love romance with Twitter. Following these tips can make your life and everyone else’s life with Twitter better. A little compromise isn’t so bad!

Following these 10 Twitter tips will help you: Keep your followers, Keep your sanity, Detach yourself from the web, and Save your life!

The Tips:

1. Setup Twitter to use your cellphone. This allows you to bring Twitter with you wherever you may be and makes Twitter handy.

2. Use Twitter as it was intended to be used. Send messages pertaining to the theme “What are you doing?”

3. Follow as many people as you want, but only mark the people to be notified of new tweets if you actually want to receive tweets from them on your cellphone. Allowing tweets to your cellphone from everyone in the world will eventually drive you crazy.

4. Use a program like twirl or twitterific when you are at a computer to receive tweets that you do not want to send to your cell phone.

5. Use direct messages (the ‘d username’ command) when replying to another user’s tweet directly.

6. If you absolutely must reply to someone’s tweet publicly, make sure to start the tweet with an ‘@username’. This will allow Twitter to filter out tweets if they are not relevant to user receiving it.

7. Setup your Twitter account to only send you tweets for the “@ replies to the people you are following”. This will filter out any tweets that do not belong to you. You can find this on the Twitter Website under Settings -> Notices.

8. Keep the number of tweets to under 3 a day.

9. Make your tweets matter! Only post what you feel others would be interested in reading.

10. Use a URL shorting website such as tinyurl, rurl, urltea, urlthat, or snurl to shorten the length of a URL when posting a link to another website. This will allow the URL to fit into the 140 character tweet limit and make it easier for those using a cell phone without a web browser to type the url into a computer.