Twitter - Time for another chance

Posted by bill

April 9, 2008

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So a couple of months ago I went and said that Twitter was more than a distraction than anything. I still find it a distraction but am using it a bit more now and understand some great ways to use Twitter in my business

First of all if you do not know yet what Twitter is, it is a concept known as Microblogging. You can send messages of up to 140 characters and these messages are read by anyone that is following you on Twitter. One of the nice things about Twitter is that there are clients that have cropped up that allow you to recieve messages in realtime as the people that you follow send them out. The top users of Twitter will send 10 or 20 messages out a day so the amount of traffic is substantial to say the least.

Twitter has recently cracked the Alexa top 300, and is one of the top 300 sites on the internet today.

So some tips to use Twitter, Look for people that are popular in your niche and open a Twitter account so that you can recieve and send messages within your niche. To sign up just go to Twitter and create a username and password, nothing more is needed.

Next do a search for keywords in your niche and add yourself as a follower of the people that send a lot of messages about your niche. Often this will allow you to get the lead on others when coming up with article ideas as the “tweets” come faster then the news in a niche often does.

As far as becoming popular yourself, try to send tweets often with interesting insights or links to pages, both yours and other interesting ones. As you get more popular more people will follow you.

One very important thing to do as a Twitterer is to reply to messages sent out by others. To do this you use the @ sign with the name directly after it and post you reply. This creates concentration and will often also get you noticed by the big names on Twitter. Just imagine the power of replying to someone and having them reply back with 5,000 or 10,000 people seeing the reply back, these people will wonder what your first comment was and if they find your posts interesting they will follow you as well.

If you would like to start following me on Twitter, simply signup, go to my profile, and click on the follow button.

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