It seems that the people I follow on Twitter tweet every single day, but the times they tweet and how many times a day they tweet seem to vary.

How many tweets do you publish daily?

I don’t have a strategy myself, I tweet when I feel like it, no matter what time of day it is, no matter how many tweets I’ve published earlier that day.

Usually, I don’t publish less than 5 tweets a day, that’s on a regular day. If I’m on vacation or something irregular is happening, it might be less. I don’t think that I have published more than 15 tweets on a single day. Usually I publish between 5 and 10 tweets daily.

To me, this seems fairly normal.

I’m thinking that if I publish less, like once or twice a day, my tweets will probably not be read, because my tweets usually just end up in the twitter timelines of my followers along with hundreds or thousands of other tweets.

Let me ask you this.

Is it really a limit for how many tweets you can publish daily for it not to be considered spam? The more tweets you publish the more visible you’ll be. On the other hand, if you tweet a lot, like 50 times a day, people might start unfollowing you because your tweets clutters their timeline.

Consider this, it might not matter how many times you tweet, it’s the quality of your tweets that matter.

I’m really interested, how many tweets do you publish daily?

At the moment, I’m listening to Seasick Steve, and I come to think about a question. To me, a very interesting question. I really like to know why you are using Twitter. Is there one reason only, or various reasons?

Let me give you my reasons first, and then, add yours as comments.

I joined Twitter 28 October 2007. I joined for one reason only, and that was because it was something new, and I had no clue what it was. I think I read somewhere that Twitter was going to be something huge, and that the journalist recommended that all his readers should join and start using it. And of course, it was free.

By the way, if you don’t remember when you joined Twitter, you can find out by using When Did You Join Twitter.

When I first joined it, I used it for about a week, that was it. I didn’t understand why I should continue. I didn’t know a person who was using Twitter back in 2007, and I didn’t understand why I should be telling the world what I was doing all the time. So, I left Twitter untouched for more than a year.

Today, several years later, there are four reasons why I’m using Twitter.

- Build relationships
- Communicate with friends
- Process information
- Marketing

Let me give you a brief description.

Build relationships

I use Twitter to find new and interesting people to build a relationship with. This is mostly because of my interest in marketing and using systems like Twitter, but none the less, they become my friends and it’s awesome to stay in touch with them all. I don’t think I met Jan Geronimo at Twitter, I think it was via his blog, but he’s an example of friends you meet online.

Communicate

I use Twitter to communicate with friends. Twitter has helped me to stay in touch with people. To me it’s a lot easier to use Twitter than email, regular mail, or even Facebook. Since I discovered that Eivind Heiberg was using Twitter, a friend I’ve known for more than 30 years, but who have lived more than 18 years in the US, communicating has been so much easier.

Process information

Using Twitter to process information has become an important part of my daily routine. By using Twitter I receive a lot of the news of the world, and I discover new and exciting blog posts. I do this my following Twitter lists (and creating my own Twitter lists), and by targetting keywords.

For instance, if I’m looking for news and information about the Health Care Summit, I’ll target both the keyword “Health Care Summit” and the hashtag #HealthCareSummit. Then, I’ll get all the tweets about this topic.

Marketing

Whenever I publish a tweet, a lot of people are reading it. I know this, because I track many of my tweets. So, when I publish a new blog post, and I send a tweet with a link to the blog post, I know that I’ll get a lot of visitors. Using Twitter for marketing is important to me, it’s a way to communicate with likeminded people. I don’t have to send out tweets with links to my own blog posts, but I can ask questions about marketing stuff I have been thinking about buying, or I’m asking for feedback. Twitter is a very powerful marketing tool. But only if you use it right.

Now, please answer the question.

Why are you using Twitter?