Twitter: Use a Picture, Look Less Like a Bot
The Default Twitter Icon Says You Aren't Worth Following
If you are on Twitter, use a picture and not an animation or logo. You will:
- You will look less like a bot
- Acquaintences will recognize you
- You will get more followers
- Followers will pay more attention to what you say.
Kudos to my old colleague Chris Cummings who made a brave step forward and switched from an icon to a real photo on Twitter Already I pay more attention to his Tweets, and I suspect his followers will increase at a faster rate.
Some of you still don’t get it.
If your goal in social marketing is to gather a bigger following, use a PICTURE of yourself. Nothing says ‘I’m a Robot’ like a cartoon gif.
Credibility is always an issue, and if you are just a social marketing shill pretending to be what you are not, not using a real picture is a dead giveaway.
BTW: I heard the new motorola krave might cause cancer.
