Someone posed the question: How would you utilize Twitter if you had only 15 minutes per day to attend to it?  Even though I have more than 15 minutes per day to work on Twitter, most days that is, I did think it would make a great blog post!  Here is my answer to that question…

IF I only had 15 minutes per day to attend to Twitter, I would make sure to use a Twitter client to make the best of the few minutes I did have.  I personally use and like Hootsuite.  Not only is my Twitter account visible on the dashboard, but all my Facebook Fan Pages as well.  I’m multi-tasking when using the Hootsuite Dashboard and I can send out updates to both Facebook and Twitter simultaneously.

I automate as much as possible at a set time each day, so when I visit Hootsuite to spend my 15 personal minutes, I immediately go to the stream ‘Mentions’ to see where my name showed up that day. A quick analyses would show what was re-tweeted (quote, FB FanPage, video or link) why they mentioned me and if I need to respond.  Then off to ‘Direct Messages’ where I try to answer questions, look quickly at suggested content (or book mark for later viewing) and validate any followers that need validation.  A quick look at my ‘Home Feed’ will give me an idea of what’s happening in the news that particular day and I try to re-tweet some content each time I’m in that feed.  People love to be re-tweeted!

To Tweet, I schedule my Tweets to go out in intervals with a mixture of quotes, video, links to my FB Fan page, links to other blogs and re-tweeted content.  I schedule heavy for early morning and later in the evening, when I find other Twitter users are more active as well.  Scheduling most of my Tweets to go out between the hours of 6-10 AM and 7-10 PM seems to work well.  To find new followers, I have several streams running, each with up to three different hash-tags or key search words.  When I scan those for interesting content, I’ll pull up the twitter ID and look at the Klout score for that account.  My general rule is to not follow anyone with a score lower than 35.  A quick read of their bio might convince me to follow someone with a lower Klout score if their bio interests me.  I try to follow 10-25 new account per day.

This is my 15 minutes of Twitter Condensed

(and yes, I can type really fast)

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About Dorien Morin-van Dam

Dorien is owner and social media marketer at More In Media. Dorien enjoys social media training, educating and consulting and is passionate about teaching social media to small business owners. In her spare time, Dorien manages five kids, two dogs and a husband. She runs marathons and loves to bake, travel and read.