Twitter is a micro-blogging platform that has revolutionized the way folks communicate and share information online. Twitter has been around for a while, but until recently most folks labeled it overrated and useless for business. The truth is you can not only use Twitter to find friends and contacts, but also share information and drive thousands of folks to your blog everyday.
Twitter has been what all marketers and bloggers waiting for and more. But due to its nature, it drives away folks who try to deceive the community. The community of Twitter is intelligent and sophisticated, and they do not cherish folks who are out there only to make a few dollars on Twitter.
Bloggers have a lot to gain from Twitter. Twitter makes it easy to follow other super-bloggers and even get in touch with them. It’s not everyday that you get to directly talk to folks who have been in the business for years. You can also watch and learn a lot from super-bloggers on Twitter, something that was easily possible a few years ago.
The Twitter community is growing fast. Everyday, more folks take the Twitter challenge. But there is a right way and wrong way to succeed on Twitter. A few folks try to take a shortcut and start following everyone without truly providing any value. These folks usually end up being ignored by the community.
But the top Twitter users are those who provide real value to the community. These folks constantly share information with their peers and try to add to conversations going on in the community. Building trust is a must on Twitter. Twitter is not about following folks and spamming them. It’s about building relationships. If you are a blogger, you can find other folks in your niche and share notes. You’d be surprised how far you can build your relationship through Twitter.
You can also share your blog posts on Twitter to get some traction. But the best way to start is to build trust first. You can achieve that by twittering other folks’ blog post and articles. Once you have built the proper trust level, you can start sharing your own blog posts and get twitter traffic. As long as you don’t violate the community’s trust, you can expect to leverage the trust you have gained to get more folks to your blog. The key is to stay true your community and add value on a consistent basis.
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Nice Tips!Twitter is a comunication tool, and not a tool to market your business.It is very poerful and one of the best social bookmarking network too…truely i like the concept of building relationships via Twitter.. and Twitter also brings good traffic …
Yeah! Go the twitter way to drive traffic. I still don’t understand why some people are still anti twitter. Its all in the name of fun!
All this time and I just realized I wasn’t following you Franklin. I just found your Twitter ID above and started following.
Hey Franklin, where have you been? I miss your regular posts. Hope all is well with you my friend.
Hey Franklin, I still check back regularly but I haven’t seen an update in a while. I hope you’ll at least come back to give us an update on what’s going on in your life.
I’ve been using some Twitter tools as a means to make better use of it.
It’s pretty easy to spot spammers on twitter. People who are there only to promote their sites and ignore other people’s twits quickly get ignored. However once you build a stable relationship with other users it can help you drive lots of traffic to your site. It takes a lot of time and effort but ultimately is worth it.
I’ve had very little success with twitter, I guess I need to get more followers.
Is this just enough hyped up platform? I remember when RSS was suppose to “bring a lot of visitors to your blog” and for a lot of people it didn’t.
Yes, if you’re P.Diddy or Britney Spears, of course, you’re going to get a lot of followers. But, if you’re just starting out with your blog, how do you get past all of the inevitable spammers?
I am going to give Twitter a try and see if it lives up to the recent hype about it.
Nice post. I’m using tweetdeck to help with organizing the tweets. I like it.
Anyway, i was on twitter for over a year before it all made sense one day, and now i love it. It is like anything else……used it, don’t abuse it.
Kevin
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