I don’t read Twitter direct messages anymore (unless they’re from someone I know). Why? Because I’m not interested in “enhancing” anything, I don’t want a loan and if I needed to find a business coach, I wouldn’t use one who solicited me on Twitter.
Maybe I’m missing something.  Shouldn’t a direct message be used for [...]

Are you tweeting about your every move from leaving the gym to checking out at the grocery?  News flash: no one cares!  Unless you’re at Jamba Juice and they’ve reduced the price of their awesome smoothies for one day—I went there twice the last time they did that—keep your actions to yourself.
Would you call a [...]

I use Twitter and FaceBook to stay in contact with clients and associates.  LinkedIn is another tool in my social media toolbox, but honestly I don’t use it much.  The Small Business Trends post “6 Ways To Create Opportunities on LinkedIn“ changed my mind. From now on I’m going to embrace LinkedIn or at least [...]

Guy Kawasaki, managing director of Garage Technology Ventures and the author of nine books including Reality Check, has over 180,000 Twitter followers. He’s often asked how he uses Twitter and on the American Express Open Forum he answered questions about his Twitter strategy.
Kawasaki follows everyone who follows him because he feels it’s common courtesy [...]

Any tool when used the right way, should work.  Twitter is no exception. A blog post on the Guardian called “The dos and don’ts of social media” gives some food for thought for when you use social media.
A few of the tell-it-like-it-is tips include:

If you make a mistake with Twitter, you’re um, screwed.

Don’t use hashtags [...]