The rules of Twitter

I have been on Twitter for about a week now, enough to come up with some rules concerning it.

Be polite, be witty, post positive criticism, do not flame, avoid personal subjects, do not be ugly.

And one other thing to add your sense of humor might not be their sense of humor.

Assess who you follow - are they engaged in the process, or do they do it for information purposes only?
Some will not talk to you unless you are at a certain level.
Do not directly talk to someone unless it is correct to do so.
Only respond to tweets that are questions or if you have something interesting or witty to say, do not spout crap.

Re tweeting is a menace avoid, do not re-tweet unless it is worthwhile, this was my sin, people do not want to know about it, if they did they would be following the conversation.
Do not favorite unless it is worthwhile.
Do not expect a reply.

Keep your tweets to a minimum, absence creates fondness, too many tweets devalues your output, people will tune out.

If you wish people to listen to you be patient, it takes time to build up followers.

To have something to tweet you must do things in the real world, otherwise you will have nothing to talk about, do not spend all day on it.
This is what I have learnt, some pitfalls I avoided but others I fell into, over enthusiasm got the better of me.

But getting the balance right is what life is about, I for one have never been worried about making mistakes, only about not learning from them.

So what do I do now? well in all things there is storming then norming, time to put what I have learnt into perspective, and then apply it.