What are the benefits of creating a twitter page for my Forum ?

My forum is: http://FootieArts.com

I recently created a twitter page for the forum and a feed to post updates on the twitter page:

http://twitter.com/footiearts

But what are the benefits of getting followers ? and following other users ?

Any help would be very appreciated

 

You could post every day to give a summary of forum activity?
Hype up whats going on in your forum and tell people all the benefits of joining

 

Start simple like Tom Thumb said and just post summaries of hot topics and activity on the forums. Get followers and follow other people.

You never know what the future holds for your website. If you end up getting a lot of followers you can then promote new stuff that is going on with the website. Better to build up that list now over time then needing it 6months from now and not having it.

 

What other benefits are there ?

 

Twitter was kind of a dud for me with blogs until I found some plugins and tools. I completely automated the updates sent to twitter.
I find that more people visit my blogs from it. You can target followers too with something like Twitter Snipe. Its easy to make money on twitter if that's all you do.
I haven't seen a increase in conversions yet though. The best tool/plugin IMO is twitter Friendly Links. Makes links look like something like http-//twitter.com/yoursite/1234

 

What do you mean by conversions ?

 

I'd suggest using twitpare.com to create comparisons to engage your followers and spark discussions and contests. It might be a great way to interact with followers, and provide interesting content to them.

 

I use twitterfeed

 

twitter followers creates traffic and good advertising for your site.

 

Cool, how do I get more followers then ?

 

how do i get followers on Twitter please as my forum is

http://www.holyhead.biz/forum/index.php

but i cant get people on if I dont have followers?? help please???????????

 

Make ur own thread for starters

 

I would not suggest using a "Separate" twitter account only for forum, but if you have already a twitter account with your name you can tweet your "BEST" forum posts using that account.

Take example of my twitter account. I tweet other sites' useful information, my forum's best posts and anything I find good on internet. This way I can keep all useful stuff under one account and not only for forum.

Hope you get my point.

 

you can post important stuff like news or new service or new competition or addition on the forum and the message will be delivered instantly to all your twitter followers and that will generate good traffic

 

How do I get followers ?

 

There are no benefits from this Twitter. ... Period.

You'll find out soon enough.

Sorry.

 

ok... lol

 

Of course there is , your either narrow minded or have no idea of creative marketing ? The way you have done it with twitter feed is the way most forums do it. IMO If you have a good qaulity forum with Good descriptive Forum posts it will bring traffic and in turn they will convert into members if the niche fits.

By following people , you hope they follow you back , then when someone else sees that person has followed you they might too and so on and so on.

If done correctly with good qaulity stuff it could act as a massive pyramid of potential users/customers.

 

You can get good traffic if your articles are good.

 

Perfect description, thanks River Wire, great forum too, rep added!