Over the last month I've been experimenting with Twitter, and come up with a way to generate traffic back to my various sites. This system works, and can be used by anybody. I describe how it works in a blog entry here. I provide an economic justification of the time involved here. And go into more detail on this Squidoo lens (covering additional topics such as retweeting and the creation of a virtuous circle). The main benefit of this approach is the quality of the followers you pick up. 100 followers of this type are easily worth 1,000 of the regular variety. A secondary benefit is the information you'll come across if you persue this strategy - including the discovery of a number of dofollow blogs with high PageRank. Take a look and see if you think this can work for you. I think this approach is perfect for serious online marketers - especially if you're not a prolific and/or talented creater of content and need an alternative to article marketing. If you try this approach, let me know how you get on
The guy is offering information... cut him a break. With that attitude towards others, you'll never be successful.
I am not sure how powerful Twitter is. I just join today though I knew this website long time ago. I joined facebook yesterday as well. I think facebook and twitter can be helpful for traffic if I have enough time to share stuff and make friends.
The more I use it, the more I like it. It's helped me as follows... Discovered very useful information via Twitter. Via TweetDeck, found out about retweeting and the enormous potential that offers. I just added up all the followers of people who retweeted tweets of mine so far today. There are 9 retweets with a collective following of 36,639 followers between them (using info from TweetDeck). I have 731 followers, so I've managed to get my links out to 50 times more people than I otherwise could - at no cost to me and without doing any additional work over and above what I'd have done any way. Contrast that with your average Blog. I tweet often. This results in new leads via clicks to articles and web sites. I use TweetLater to schedule tweets in advance. Twitter is a great contributor to the virtuous circle concept. Individual Twitter pages can obtain PageRank, though they can't pass it on (links are nofollow). Never-the-less, they will send Googlebot to whichever site you happen to be pointing at. And that might get something indexed much faster if Google, Bing, etc are indexing your Twitter page regularly. These are off the top of my head. I'm sure there are other benefits, apart from the concept outlined in my original article of course.
These days, Twitter is growing at dramatic speed. It is becoming increasingly popular and influential. It is even used to perform normal searches.
Coming from an experienced marketer, and with common sense and a brain, megaresp, you'll find out in due time. That's all I can say as you wouild not believe anything I tell you. One has to find out on his own, to see it with his own eyes.
I started making money on twitter when I stopped trying to sell products and started giving people money.
I run a small festival Blog and have been actively using twitter for 3 months now to promote it. - i can see other twitters who post about festivals, add them as friends or retweet stuff. - i automatically follow people who follow me. - headlines to my blog posts are automatically tweeted. The result is more people finding my site, it is a clever marketing tool, but the average time they spend on my site is far down on other users. Still i will keep trying festivalplanet.com