#Twitter: How Much and How Often?

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Twitter is a very versatile social platform, used in many ways and styles.

Teens use it as a personal chat, news media as a broadcasting channel, politicians as a personal press agency, influencers and showbiz stars as an interface with their audience, business companies both as a dynamic ad billboard and as an instant customer service, etc.

IMHO posting links to articles can be automated, because it's recognised as a form of news broadcasting. In this case I do recommend answering questions and mentions, but the reply can be delayed a few hours.

On the contrary personal statements, statuses or questions (eg "I'm feeling great" or "Are you ready for my new blog post?") can't be automated, as they need quick interaction with replies from the audience.

Anyway none of your followers will check his TL 24/7, so by tweeting continuously you'll reach potentially all of them, annoying no one. Unless you overflow your TL in frequency of course.