M8:D7 (D624) Tweet for Accountability

Twitter is a great tool for getting to know people and for building lists of potential customers for later projects.  At the same time, it is essential that you make personal connections on Twitter because that is what it is all about.  Impersonal interaction is frowned upon and will lose followers.

For me, I use Twitter to get to know people, but at the same time, I use it to ratchet up my personal accountability. 

Two Ways I Use Twitter to Ratchet Up Accountability

1. Get Your Blog Content Seen.  I currently have over 2,600 followers on Twitter.  In order to get my blog content seen by my followers, I have set up an automated process for this to happen.  I have gone to my Google account and set up an RSS feed through Google that leads to this blog’s content.  I then used Twitterfeed.com to push the RSS feed through my Twitter account.  Every time there is new content on this blog, twitterfeed.com pushes that new content through my Twitter account via a tweet.  I don’t have to be logged in nor do I have to trigger anything, it is all automated.  This puts my latest blog posts in front of over 2,600 people all at one time.  Visitor logs show that since I started doing this, traffic has increased tremendously.  In addition to this automated method, I post a regular tweet that simply says “Does your fitness plan lack accountability?” with a link to this blog.  It has worked to get me alot of readers.  
2. Be transparent on nutrition.  A big thing for me is being transparent about nutrition.  Thus, in this mission I began posting my meals on Twitter.  I prefix each tweet with the day number and what meal it is and then I end each tweet with a has tag #m8.  The hash tag enables my followers (or even those who read this blog and don’t follow me) to search on #m8 and find the meals I’ve been consuming.  This works very well because I am forced to post my meals on Twitter because I am telling my readers that I am doing this and I am giving them an easy way to search for my meals.  Without the hash tag it would be easy to fall off the wagon on this accountability technique.  That’s the cool thing about Twitter, you can create your own hash tag for whatever purpose you need.

I believe that social media has some great tools for accountability.  Over time I will discuss these ideas in this blog, so watch for that.