Twitter chats or Tweet Chats are a great way to reach a large target audience on Twitter. As all the tweets can be retweeted it can also be a great way to send your message viral and help establish yourself as an expert in your niche.
Live Twitter interviews are done using a hashtag which is attached to all the tweets. This makes it easy for people to follow and also allows people to find all the posts quickly as they can just do a search for the hashtag and it'll bring up all the posts from the chat.
Yesterday I was interviewed in a Tweet Chat as part of my virtual book tour to promote my latest release Virtual Book Tours: Effective Online Book Promotion From the Comfort of Your Own Home, where I shared loads of tips about virtual book tours. As I was preparing for the interview I decided to do a quick how to video to show how to do a live Twitter chat. I also show some of the tools I use to make doing them super easy.
Check it out here:
Twitter interviews are a great way of reaching a large audience and gaining new followers. In today's post I'm going to take you through the how-to of LIVE Twitter Interviews:
1) Why are you doing the interview? What are your reasons for doing the interview? Knowing your goals will help create focus and make sure you ask/get asked the right questions.
2) It's a good idea to connect before the interview to make sure both interviewer and interviewee are clear on all the details, the goals of the interview (see point #1) and run though how the interview will take place.
3) Decide on a hashtag. You'll use this for all posts during your interview so that people can easily follow the chat.
4) Promote your upcoming interview.
5) Pick a monitoring tool to use for the interview. I personally like www.TweetChat.com because it's clutter free and easy to use. Just log in using your Twitter account, enter your hashtag (in the box at the top of the page) and click "Go"
You now have your chatroom for your interview (share this link so people can follow the interview directly from TweetChat in case they want to cut out the clutter of the Twitter newsfeed).
All tweets you post from inside the TweetChat room will automatically have your hashtag on them. You can also shorten url's to include in your posts directly when posting.
The newsfeed of all tweets using your hashtag will show below the tweet box. Each tweet in the newsfeed has icons to make it easy to retweet and favourite.
N.B. It's a good idea to remind people during the interview that your doing a LIVE Twitter interview. Something like "This is a Twitter interview with @interviewee and we're about half way thru #YourHastag".
Have you ever done a Twitter interview? Which monitoring tool did you use? Do you have an upcoming Twitter interview to promote? Leave a comment and let us know the details.
