What is Twitter?
Posted on : 20-07-2009 | By : Lyndon | In : Tutorials
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If you haven’t heard about Twitter you must have been living, well, in a third world prison!
Everyone and their dog now appears to be using Twitter! It’s currently the 15th most visited site on the internet according to Alexa Top 500 Global Sites list and growing rapidly.
Twitter is a micro-blogging platform that allows you to tweet your message to your followers and the world. If you are a Facebook user it might be easier to understand Twitter if you liken the service to Facebook status updates. A tweet is simply a message of up to 140 characters, just a sentence or two to convey your message.
Twitter allows anyone to broadcast to the world, and more specifically their followers, updates on their business, website or life. Take a look at the following video for a basic, plain english description:
Once you have an understanding of how easy Twitter is to use you can begin to see the power of the microblogging platform.
One of the keys to harnessing Twitters power is interaction. Follow users who follow you (if you find their tweets interesting), answer peoples questions and re-tweet interesting messages. Growing your follower-base is essentially growing your customer base and to make Twitter an effective business tool you need to build the trust of your followers.
Follow me @ twitter.com/lyndonwatkins
did you see the Twitter homepage is now a search engine. Maybe they will compete with GOOG one day!
I love twitter because its a blog for those who don’t have time to blog! You can skip the waffle and go straight to the good stuff!
Like all good ideas, Twitter started out as a simple “status update” but has become soaked in spam ads telling me how to get 1,000,000 followers in 1 hour (or something similar). As a user you should “keep it simple” follow the friends you know and any celebs you may be interested in. As an online spammer, the opposite applies, follow everybody and anybody and tweet them your sales pitch.
As an online business owner, don’t follow anyone just send out useful tweets to your followers/customers.
I just started using Twitter for promoting my blogs and I must say I have seen an increase in traffic. Thank you for sharing this
Twitter is looking better and better every day. Looks like it will be a good median for online money making. I learned how to be an affiliate with Tycoon Cashflow. Good results so far. Can’t wait to see how much I can make.
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There is a lot of information in the affiliate entrepreneur on twitter, going into a nice overview on it.
Good starter info. for the Twitter-curious!
Twitter definately baffled me for a bit. Once I got over my “fear” of the new social tool, I really started to use it. You have encouraged me to go even a bit further. Great post, thanks!
I have no idea about Twitter!! but I hear it everywhere..radio, tv….I’ll check it out
Twitter is another useful tool for an affiliate marketer, just one of many for me! A useful tip i have found prob a lot of people are already aware of is to tweet whatever you are trying to sell, or promote. It shows up in twitters search engine for example you tweet dog training products. Now someone can search for tweets related to dog training products. If they do they can stumble across your tweets, maybe add you, or even become a customer if that’s what your selling.
Great blog i agree twitter is a useful tool!
the interesting note about Twitter is that its not a social network so much as its an information network..
it is the place to go to find out what is happening right now
Twitter makes me laugh, Do you really read all the little snippets that go rolling by? Maybe the follower with a few dozen might, but the guy with a few thousand sure won’t. Be a leader not a follower. I get the word by submitting articles about my niche.
Thx,
Dan
I use twitter regularly and it’s being used by lots of companies as a means of communicating and interacting with existing customers. You can even see twitter feeds in Googles results now.
Twitter is truly a great way to generate traffic!
Best of luck,
- Stan
I am thinking of joining twitter to promote the blog I have at http://www.rocktherecession.info that shows rockers and punks how to make money in blogging.
Do you have to create a special business account, or is personal okay?
Great posting. Twitter is now one of the most important tools in a marketers tool chest. Used correctly, you can really make a difference with your profits.
It seems to me that more and more people are using twitter as a business tool, I think this will be an increasing trend as it is a good way to get links to your site especially if you link it to your Facebook account.
I really don’t think that Twitter is a great way to make money. I think it is a good way to have people follow you but if they are all affiliates and internet marketers, they will not buy anything from you.
Just like you having links, they have the same thing in mind too.
Twitter is good for celeberties.
Tal
I have found twitter very helpful, great blog past thanks for the info. Sally
The best part of Twitter is the search function – SO useful. You can simply type in a search term that is relevant to your interests – such as ‘work from home – and it will pull all related tweets. Great way to connect to like-minded people!
Best,
Scott
I love twitter. It is short, sweet, and to the point.