Monday, August 31, 2009

Using Twitter To Your Advantage

By Finbar Minstrel

Twitter uses the very basic what are you doing now? shareable information bar like the one used on Facebook, and uses it as the main feature of a site with the main focus on sharing real-time information, pictures, links etc all about what youre doing at that very moment.

Effectively, Twitter is a huge database of people whore all interested in different topics. If you regularly Tweet about a specific topic, then you Tweets will be read by people who are also interested in that topic. If they like what you write then they will follow you. Over time you can build up a big catalogue of followers on Twitter which can then be converted into customers.

So how exactly does Twitter work?

Step one is to set up your own free Twitter account, you can see an example of an account at twitter.com/Deeho

In order for people whore interested in your chosen subject to find you, it is wise to choose a username that is related to that topic.

Next you want to add your information, your website address and a brief biography. The biography is visible on your page and is searchable so you want to make it keyword rich, again so you can be found easily.

The actual process of Tweeting is simplicity itself, you have 140 characters that you can use to compose your tweet.

You can simply write a short comment about what youre doing / thinking, or you can do what most people do and use an attention grabbing, bold sentence or headline to then place a link back to your site where the rest of the story or blog entry is. Most people use Twitter to drive traffic back to their main site in this way.

This is Twitter in its most basic form. You can use http://twitterfeed.com/ to automatically post each blog entry that you write onto your Twitter page within minutes of you publishing it. This saves you having to do two things.

Alternatively, you can use http://bit.ly/ as most Tweeters do, to not only shorten your blog url, but also to automatically post your Tweet at the same time. This saves you having to copy and paste into Twitter.

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