7 Twitter Tips To Get You Help On Twitter Quickly

Earlier this week we stumbled across a very refreshing story that unfolded on Twitter. Dutch Twitterazi member @marlooz, had her laptop stolen while attending the 140 Character Conference (#140conf) this week. She immediately began to tweet her panic when she realized that her laptop was no longer with her. 

Within hours of her tweets for help to find her missing laptop, many of her Twitter followers had donated and collected over $1500 to replace Marlooz’s stolen laptop.  Here are 7 important tips that you can learn from Marlooz’s story to help you get help on Twitter quickly:

  1. Tweet about your problem:

  2. Include as many specifics as possible:

  3. If your problem is location or event related, using the designated hashtag of the event can increase your chances of finding help:

  4. If your problem is related to a particular company, direct it at the source.
  5. Can you picture it?

     

  6. Consistently tweet your problem until it is resolved, but be careful not to spam your followers.
  7. Ask your audience for retweets!

Twitter Q&A

  • What else could we learn from Marlooz’s story?
  • How have you received help on Twitter? Share your story!
  • What are tips would you recommend to find help on Twitter?

Category: Unique Insights

  • myneurotica
    I am real happy to read stories that end this way, it makes us all united.
  • Nice article, definitely worth reading.
    Just want to add another service which works great; http://tweetsourcer.com

    Happy tweeting!
  • Hello MrTweet! Love your blog as always. No, what I was going to mention was not about getting help but about giving help. Use a program like TweetDeck (which I love also) and in the All Friends column use a filter with the character ? ; this will filter all tweets to show only the ones with the ? in them. And BLAM! your instance @helperman on Twitter. Your followers will love you for it and you can go to heaven knowing you did your good deed of the day.
  • nathonhay
    Was her laptop ever discovered? I use a program called HijackThis from microcenter.com that will locate my laptop the moment it reconnects to the internet...
  • a great inspiring story. Amazing spirit of tweeters!
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