I was not a big fan of Twitter when I first heard about it a couple of years ago.  I thought, along with lots of other people, who cares “What I am doing Now”.  To be honest sometimes I don’t even want to know what I’m doing now!

But after a couple of months of Tweeting, I realize that the question “What are you doing now” is a bit misleading.  When you first hear the question, the automatic reaction to answering it is from a literal interpretation. 

If you spend a little time looking at the timelines of the most successful Tweeters, you’ll quickly realize that almost no one answers the question literally.  Every once in a while someone will tell you what they’re doing now.  But most of the tweets are bits and pieces of information intended to be helpful, informative or simply entertaining.

 5 Question to Help You Write Tweets

If you’re stuck on what to Tweet, consider these 5 questions as alternatives to get you started:

• How can you be helpful?
• What’s got your attention and why?
• What’s interesting, or funny, of valuable that you can link to?
• What’s cool?
• What’s frustrating?

Before you know it you’ll be tweeting your heart out and never ever think about “What are you doing now?” And most importantly, you’ll begin to build a following becasue of your interesting Tweets!