It helps you gain traffic to your site,increse sign up to your programs and a great place to find new things
Hi, The beauty of Twitter is that it's a niche service that people have applied to different situations, which has led to this bounty of different twitter-based applications, and a general consensus that Twitter is somehow good for you business. If you're going to be using Twitter on its own, it's not really effective that way. The true strength of twitter is for its ability to fill up the seams in-between and reinforce the social media capability of other social media platforms such as Facebook (a must-have), Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Reddit, blogs etc. If you want specific ways to integrate Twitter into your business's practices, try some of these: 1) if you publish a blog, you can send out tweets to your followers with a link to your blog post. If the content is good (make sure it's good!), then it's a good way to disseminate that information. 2) If you have an interesting opinion to share, make sure that you tweet it out regularly. Brevity is key! You're going to have to compress the bare sentiment of the opinion, or a catchy headline, and provide a link for your followers to read more on your blog. 3) If you can, you can set your blog to autopost a short blurb on Twitter every time you post something on it. This way, you link your Twitter success to your blog success. 4) Twitter is a channel for you to regularly provide content to your follower base. That's why each tweet is restricted to 140 characters, so that you are concise and exercise your ability to write eye-catching tweetable titles. Sometimes if your lines are good enough, followers may re-tweet it, so your tweets may end up reaching more people than you originally intended - which is perfect, and essentially the point and objective of Twitter. 5) If you're going to be monitoring Twitter in more of a business setting, download and use a free service like TweetDeck or Seesmic, so that you can synchronize your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace accounts (this is from my experience with TweetDeck, I haven't used Seesmic much, but my friends tell me its similar and equally as useful; I believe Seesmic has introduced some addition features and add-ons that you can download for your desktop, check it out on their homepage) and monitor different aspects of it and reach out to new followers, see what topics are buzzing right now, monitor any mentions of you by other Twitterati. 5) Use online twitter monitoring sentiments analysis sites like Tweettree, Tweetfeel, Twittratr, to monitor the internet's "mood" (though I don't find any of those, save for Tweettree, very useful) 6) Learn the jargon! Look up and understand tweets, tweeter, twitterati, as well as the names of the software above. Even if you don't use them, know about them to become more social media-savvy. 7) Twitter also allows you to follow other key figures in the social media sphere. Here are some must-know names, but you can no doubt find more just by reading their blogs, following who they follow and quote and generally hold in high-esteem, and through doing your own research on the subject. Pete Cashmore Mari Smith Chris Brogan David Meerman Scott Lee Odden Mashable Robert Scoble Rand Fishkin (SEOmoz) Erik Qualman Mitch Joel Seth Godin Gary Vaynerchuk (big name in this industry) Hope this helps you out, Cheerio PG @PrashGopalan www.prashanthgopalan.posterous.com
Thanks pgopalan. Great information. I just started using Twitter yesterday and couldn't really see how it was of any use.
No problems dude, I'm still in the process of mastering it myself, so if you have any tips that you come up with later on, do share them with me. Cheers, PG
Just tweet something interesting related to your website with links and retweet what other people's are sharing.
Drive traffic to your site/blog and build up your reputation if you could get big number of followers. Plus u can earn by sponsoring tweets and advertising others on your a/c !