Twitter – Tweet Your Way To Success

Many of you reading this have probably heard of Twitter, but have you may not have taken the time to engage with it, or may have only taken a passing interest and thought, what is the point?

I was like that, thinking, this is just another application that is going to take up time and keep me away from doing more important things.

recently however, I have decided t investigate it a little more and found it to be a great networking tool.

What is Twitter?

If you are unfamiliar with Twitter, or have heard of it, but not had the time or inclination to take a look, I’ll explain what it is.

The best way to think of Twitter is as text messaging for the Web. Below is the Wikipedia description:

“Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter web site, via the Twitter web site, short message service (SMS), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.”

Personally, I prefer to use the Adobe Air application Twhirl for Twitter.

Still confused and wondering how this can be of benefit to you?

Why Bother?

Aside from just being able to send text messages of what you are presently doing, eating, reading, seeing, etc, you can also post links tp posts you have made, pics, videos, or any content that you would like to share. Don’t be concerned about the length of the URL, as tinyurl takes care of that.

The really cool thing about Twitter is that you can follow the ‘tweets’ of other people and likewise, people can follow you. For example, you may want to follow all the ‘A-list’ bloggers in your niche. The good thing is, that many of these ‘A-list’ bloggers will reciprocate by following you. You can also see who is following other people, and choose to follow them as well, thus increasing your circle of influence.

You may have emailed some of the ‘A-list’ bloggers in the past and never had a response. That is to be expected, they can receive hundreds of emails a day and simply do not have the time to respond.

On Twitter however, the response is as simple as a quick text message. You may find that Robert Scoble has written a tweet that you just have to respond to; you write your response and may well find that he finds your tweet interesting enough to reply.

Twitter also has direct messaging capabilities for friends who are following each other.

So use Twitter to build a profile and following on Twitter which can greatly enhance your reach and exposure to a wider audience and network of people.

You can start by adding me here: http://twitter.com/RossMaguire

Happy tweeting.