You Are What You Tweet

Everything you do, and everything you say on Twitter reflects how the rest of us see YOU as a person.

It isn’t about all those links you share, it isn’t about how often you retweet your friends, and it certainly isn’t about how many followers you have.

It’s about how you behave.

Each time you update on Twitter, you’re telling us something about you. If you’re consistent in the things you say and write about, the rest of us can quickly build up a fairly accurate profile of who you are, and what you represent.

If, conversely, your tweets, use of language and choice of content are all over the place, then you’re a lot harder to pin down. Perhaps surprisingly, this is not a good thing. At least right now, there aren’t a lot of brownie points on offer for being chaotic in social media. It makes you look fragmented, and random. Even dangerous.

Most of all, it makes you seem like you’re not a real person.

Unless you protect your tweets, everything you say on Twitter is on public display. It’s readable by everybody else on the network (bar those you’ve blocked, although there are various ways around that), and is picked up by Google, and updated in real time. Those brief but often weighty 140-character announcements are, byte by byte, helping to formulate your identity on the internet.

This is how the internet sees you, and therefore by association, the world. Make it count.

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