Twitter can be an extremely powerful tool–if you use it the right way. If you approach it the wrong way, however, you can waste a lot of time with no visible return.

Here are few ways to lose on Twitter. These are common blunders that make the Twitter process a complete loss for participants.

Being too aggressive. If you hit the ground running at the full sprint with Twitter, you’re risking some trouble. For instance, those who suddenly add masses and masses of new people to the list of those they follow may be categorized as probable spammers or troublemakers. That can get an account closed.

Using Twitter as an afterthought. There are people who set up a tool that will announce their blog posts to Twitter. They combine that with an automatic message to new followers and they forget all about it. It’s not really helpful to have your Twitter account out there announcing new posts for the sake of traffic if you’re not an active participant. You become annoying and “fake” to most of your followers and you can damage your reputation more than you can help it.

Those are just two ways to be a Twitter loser. There are many more. The takeaway here is that it’s important to learn the right way to use Twitter if you want to make it part of your online endeavors.

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