Use Twitter To Focus on Business

Posted by: Jack Ryan August 31st, 2009

Be Limitless Now,

Twitter has taken over the social networking portion of the Internet in a very short time. It is now the number three social networking site on the Internet behind Facebook and MySpace. Twitter may not be number one but it is growing fast and it won’t take long for it to get to the top spot position.

Twitter allows 140 characters maximum for each post they call a tweet. This ensures that twitter stays fast moving, exciting, fast-paced and forces you to be short and concise with your messages. This is a good thing, because of the readers are more inclined to read a short message in a very long post. With hundred 40 characters is a limit you need to make sure that you get right to the point. Don’t waste time with extraneous conversation such as this is what I referenced all of this and I’m about to do now but it really doesn’t matter.

This is different than a webpage or weblog, or even an e-mail in that the 140 character limit allows you to focus your message so that your reader understands what your niche is all about. You can also include links in your 140 character limit message, these links can go to other webpages, blogs, videos, or audio messages. Webpages and blogs are more about just giving out information so even the best blog updates itself once or twice a day. This is Web 1.0. However the social networking sites are updated every few seconds. This is Web 2.0.

There are also many other twitter applications that are third party in nature that will help twitter to be a more effective tool for your business use. If your friends, and other acquaintances, or even relatives use twitter you might want to invite them to follow you.

You can also take advantage of other applications that help you to use twitter more efficiently and to get more out of it. There are applications that make twitter easier-to-use as well as ones that can help you find followers that are more targeted to your interests.

In order to get more traffic would twitter you should follow the experts in your field. It is best to get as miniature followers as you possibly can. You can accomplish this by following a lot of people, and you have about a 50% chance of them following you back. This strange twitter rule that is unwritten but it makes twitter more enjoyable. Make it very easy to make friends and followers, but that’s just the beginning. You need to develop these relationships once you have your foot in the door as a follower.

Once they follow you back, you should take the time if you can send them a message saying thank you. Another trick is to un follow any of those people that have not followed you back within three days. This will keep the total number of people that you are following to a minimum.

The twitter community relies on each others treating each twitter with respect. Because it is so easy to un-follow is a very low tolerance for bad behavior. If someone doesn’t like how you’re acting or what you’re writing they will simply stop following you.

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