What is twitter anyways?
Well, it’s pretty simple! Tell your followers or friends, what are you doing? Give your friends or followers of what you’re upto or a peek into your life with a short status message which limit itself to 140 characters.
And why should we use it?
- It can help you make friends.
- It can help you build business.
- It can help you with networking with like-minded people or businesses.
- It can help you make some extra pocket money (free of charge).
- It can help you market yourself.
- It can help you generate traffic to your site.
How can you use twitter?
It can be used both for personal and business purposes.
For personal account, you can utilise it for fun or share some interesting views on varied subjects you like to talk about. Follow the people from your respective field, mostly for networking and learning purpose.
Let’s say it’s a business account, you can use it as a medium to inform your customers about the new product or an update of existing product. I see it as a twitter support system, which can give you an extra edge to compete with your competitors. One tweet and you’re broadcasting message to all your followers. Generally, the business accounts are handled by multiple people rather than an individual.
Many of the users don’t know that when somebody follows you, you should follow the respective person back to have a conversation through Direct Messages or DM for short. (ONLY IF YOU FIND THE FOLLOWER INTERESTING ENOUGH)
Nobody wants to know if you’re sipping a cup of coffee unless you’re a celebrity. Doing that will probably make you loose some followers and so try and stop that.
How to get more follower’s?
It all depends on how interesting your tweets are! If your account is solely for business purposes, you can use a tool called Twitter Snipe. It’s an automated platform, so you don’t have to do time consuming search on twitter.
For eg: If you’re a software company and you have a product which is made for web-designer’s. So, webdesiger will become your keyword. Now, when a twitter user mentions “webdesigner”, it will automatically follow the user. And in return, if the user found the product interesting enough you can generate a sale.
Now how about if i tell you, you can make money from your tweets. Yes, you surely can with no investment at all!
To help you earn some extra pocket money, you can use RevTwt or Tweetbucks or Magpie
The best way or a clean way to use it to your advantage is to use the ShortURL service in RevTwt or Tweetbucks. Going this way will help you retain your followers.
In Twitter: The Definitive Guide Part 2, i will talk about best twitter applications on various platforms which will save ample amount of time and something more.
