Day 16 - Instructional Tweets
Yesterday, we talked about question tweets. These are a great way to interact with your audience.
Today, we are going to talk about instructional tweets.
If you are tweeting on technical subjects, your audience wants to be instructed. They are following you to learn and to be inspired.
Start teaching them.
We've already discussed one easy way to teach for developers-show the code with an image.
These types of tweets can be quite successful.
Alternatively, if you cannot fit an effective teaching moment into 280 characters, consider what diagrams you might use to assist you.
(Video is also an option, but I will leave that as outside the scope of this course. Creating compelling video content is an art unto itself.)
Your homework:
- Pull out your swipe file and jot down five instructional tweets that you appreciate.
- Pull out your creative hat and decompose the structure of one of those instructional tweets.
- Create one instructional tweet using the structure from above. Add the "#twitter4devs" hashtag. (Save your others for another day)
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