Some Twitter 'rules' for candidates

Cari Gervin has a hilarious primer on the etiquettes of using Twitter, particularly when running a campaign. And yes, a bunch of you need to learn how.

Click right smack here to read.

In the meantime, the mean one says:

• Don’t link to something on Facebook with no content.
• Don’t post Facebook status updates automatically to Twitter if they are more than 140 characters.
• Don’t retweet yourself. Seriously. It’s dumb. She explains why.           
• Don’t  retweet every person who mentions you!
• Do be consistent in you how you refer to yourself. Particularly lame is when you refer to yourself in the third person.
• Do understand how Twitter functions.

Anyhoo, those are Gerwin’s suggestions, but, really, you should read the piece. The examples – yes they’re real screenshots – alone are worth it.

By the way, there's some serious irony with Cari writing about what to do and not do on Twitter, but I digress.

Heh.