What I liked about Mack’s line regarding not telling others how to Tweet is the “how it’s better for ME” part. You gave your brother good advice on how/what to tweet, to help HIM and his business not to make it better for yourself.

Thanks for the comments, worth at least a nickel!

Thanks for the link to my post! And I agree–we all can have our own Twitter styles and can decide who to follow or not to follow.

That said, I do think the statement “I think it’s silly for me to tell HER how SHE should be using Twitter so that it’s better for ME” misses the point. If you had an entrepreneur friend who was doing marketing that you thought could be harming his or her business, would you simply ignore the marketing and keep your mouth shut? If a friend of yours joined a real world social club and started annoying the other members because s/he didn’t understand the club’s norms, would you ignore it and let him or her go about alienating others?

Since when did it become a crime to give people feedback? In Social Media, we talk about “transparency” a lot, but when a friend annoys us to the point we consider unfollowing, suddenly we should go opaque and silently unfollow rather than sharing our thoughts and engaging in a dialog?

Yes, I think it can be annoying when an individual thinks they know it all and try to tell others what to do. But that doesn’t mean we can’t share feedback. Case in point: My brother is a real estate agent, and he was regularly tweeting two kinds of tweets–personal tweets to friends and professional tweets about the markets he covers. I asked him if he thought his friends cared about real estate and if his real estate clients cared who he wished Good Morning and Good Night. He is now maintaining two Twitter profiles for his two purposes/personas.

That’s just my two cents! Hope I’m not being the bossy sort who tells others what to do on Twitter, but I think a little caring feedback beats a hidden unfollow any day!