It's a social networking site that allows you to follow people and them to follow you. You have a status update similar to Facebook in which you can post updates/products etc and those who are following you are able to read them. I use it to direct people in my niche to my blog. I get a decent amount of traffic considering it's early days for my site, but it's better than no taffic. Plus there are alot of nice tools such as the tweetmeme buttons that you can put on your articles and have your readers tweet them for you thereby passing what you've written to their followers. Plus there are also methods to integrate the api into your blog which produces tweet everytime you post on your blog and I think there's also something to post the tweets on your blog too. Hope this helps.
hello this might help you learn about what twitter is. http://www.techground.net/category/twitter/ Goodluck!
IMO Twitter is crap. Too many people spamming/marketing for me to get anything good out of it, just my opinion, my advice is, if you're going to use Twitter and build up a following, remember to do (at least) daily updates, without the spam garbage.
Hi, Twitter is community to join with the people as they are interested in u or your products and you are interested with them. Its just like the orkut and facebook community.
Just go to twitter.com, register an account andstart tweeting! you will understand the process .. It's simply a social networking site to stay connected with your freinds .. From a marketing point of view .. with 10k followers, you can send 40 people to a specific webpage you want .. Imagine if you have 100k followers ?
I use Twitter for personal reasons, but not for marketing. I usually come across a account on Twitter that markets their niche, but they get suspended in a week or two. Twitter isn't the place for marketing in my opinion.
I personally can't stand Twitter... it's just e-whores and marketers trying to get followers and get people to buy their crap and celebrities flaunting "oh I'm so much more popular".
Ive seen alot of people saying using places like twitter is the new way to perform seo. Im still researching all this as I'm old school seo and been out of the undustry too long, so im having to refresh everything for a new blog ive started, but I still dont really get how using twitter helps ur traffic etc.
twitter for, its just like microblogging. same just like other blog, but the post length is short. its much more simple then the old blog
Do backlinks from your tweets actually count as dofollows? I have an SEO for FireFox (might even be the name of it) plugin that when you search Google with it activated actually gives you an option to see how many links it has from twitter. I'd have just assumed they don't, but the inclusion in the firefox plugin makes me wonder.
What is Twitter? A great list-building tool. Or a place to make/communicate with friends. Or, possibly a place to spam if that's what you're into. Twitter's what you make it!
Mellymel, I read your post on how to use twitter for seo help and I really got something out of it. The keyword idea is wicked!