Do you use Twitter for site promotion?

yep. i usually leave twitter open on my desktop and try and twitter about 5 times a day. a mixture between;

• useful help
• answering people that need help
• trying to add a bit of humour (doesnt always go down well)
• self promotion
• affiliate promotion

 

Well, I use one account per niche and follow people related to the niche.

 

Definately use twitter, and the other top social networking sites, to help you build your business. All the pros are doing it for good reason. It works. Good Luck!

 

That's definitely the way to go these days. I've been using Twitter, Plurk, Facebook, FriendFeed and some others to promote my stuff. I was a fan of Pownce but that's gone now

 

Hey, if you aren't using twitter to network and promote whatever you do, you are losing money, plain and simple. Twitter is a great way to communicate with people who are interested in what you do and what you have to offer. It is super easy to set up and use and you can build a large group of "followers" in a short period of time. Cheers!

 

Hi,

I am planning to use Twiter to build more traffic.. what is minimum friends I should have to be useful ? Please advise.

 

I do have more than 1000 followers on Twitter, but I don't get almost any traffic from there

 

yes I do sometimes to announce new blog posts but thats all right now need to gain more followers to be effective

 

Everytime I post a new page/content to twitter, I post the new link. I broke 1,000 followers yesterday, and it gets me anywhere between 15 and 100 visits per day. I'm not really building any conversations yet, so I'm sure I could get more out of twitter than I currently am.

 

I use it 24/7
www.twitter.com/vbsetup

 

Twitter is fantastic, if you firstly focus on building a rapport with the followers and actually getting to know them, the traffic should flow a lot better.

Top Tips

# Follow genuine people back if they choose to follow you (ignore spammers)
# Respond to as many peoples tweets as possible
# Use Tweetlater to automatically follow people, and to also send them a welcome message (make sure this is not selling anything, but mainly saying thank you).

# Use a decent picture of yourself, aslong as you're smiling and giving a good impression, that's what counts .

 

I use twitter for personal stuff, i get a good traffic from there to my site though. : )

 

I use it, just started recently. I believe it's a great marketing tool. If you're not using it - GET ON IT!

 

I recently started using it.. i just heard of it not long

 

I use Twitter and love it.. I created a custom skin and changed my icon now I'm getting a lot of followers on a daily basis. Fun site.

 

Of course not.

Maybe back when I was a clueless noob, or I use it just for fun.

 

I've been using it for a couple of months now and seeing a small amount of traffic to it, which is worth it, given that tweeting only takes a few minutes a day.

I think it works better if you tweet a combination of comments, questions & blog posts, interact with the people you are following and don't put your link in every single tweet.