I’d like to start off this blog post by just stating that I Love Twitter. Being self-employed and working from home has the potential to create some fairly solitary days, especially for many of us work at home entrepreneurs who used to work in Corporate America and big offices with co-workers and water cooler chatter.

You know the kind of day I am talking about. The kind of day where you sit down in the morning to start your work day and then you look up to finally take a breath and it is 5:00. The kind of day where you realize you forgot to take a lunch break and you’re starving. The kind of day, that at the end, you realize you haven’t spoken to another adult all day.

On one hand, these days make me feel awesome. I know I was totally focused, in a groove, in flow, and making a lot of progress and headway on my open projects.

But on the other hand, these days also remind me of how much I sometimes miss the corporate water cooler and the interruptions of co-workers stopping my my cube or office (depending on the job) to say hello, talk shop, or chat about the weekend!

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It is pretty much accepted on Twitter that sending Tweets like the one below are unacceptable. They clog your Twitter stream with meaningless Tweets that don’t tell you why you should follow someone or care that they are on Twitter.

BAD #followfriday Tweet:

#followfriday @bizauthor @jerrykennedy @toddlay @TheTimeTamer @KeithHuggett @CAwealthadvisor @spinhead @SueAwesome @joyklepac @mickeyobrien

One of the people I love following on Twitter is @EricaMueller and she wrote the fantastic blog post “4 Ways to Improve Your #FollowFriday Recommendations” that you need to check out if you’re on Twitter.

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I get asked all the time about blogs and why you should have, and where should it reside, and what should it include. More and more I am also fielding inquiries about Twitter and Tweets.

Both apply to each other because they are both extensions of your brand, they both thrive off engagement and interaction with readers, and they are used to promote each other. For example, many bloggers are using their blog to promote their Twitter account and gain new followers and they are using their Twitter account to promote new blog posts. Today I thought I’d share some questions I have been asked recently and provide some answers.

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