Thursday, September 24, 2009

Twitter And Its Benefits

By Finbar Minstrel

Twitter uses the basic what are you doing now? information sharing forum, not unlike the one that Facebook uses, as the main heart of their website. The main focus of Twitter is to share what youre doing at that exact moment along with pictures and links etc.

Twitter is essentially, a massive database of people whore all interested in different topics. If you tweet about a particular topic on a regular basis, then others whore interested in that topic, and like what you write will follow you. Your words can then influences their thoughts on that topic and over time youll build up a large following which can be converted into business leads for your company.

So how does it work?

The first thing to do is to sign up for an account. This is easy and free, and example can be found 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 make a comment, or as most people do, you can use the 140 characters as a compelling headline with a link to your website or blog, where your Story is written in more detail. This is how most people use Twitter, to drive traffic to their main site, or to a recent news story they have written.

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.

Another option is to use the site http://bit.ly as many Twitter users do to not only shorten to URL of your blog, but also to post your entries onto Twitter at the same time, saving you having to paste everything into Twitter again.

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