Twitter Secrets: What Twitter Newbies Need to Know
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What is Twitter? Well, it's one of the most used Social networking sites in the whole web. But what's special about Twitter? Didn't you know? It's being used by internet marketers to boost their business online, bring traffic to their sites, and advertise. Then why is this happening?
In its humblest form, it's like sharing everywhere, anytime and in just a few words. You're like sending a text message called “Tweets” to somebody telling everything in just a 140 max characters over the internet. It's as easy as that, and those who got your message, gets interested with it, may reply and click.
So why do business enthusiasts get in to twitter to advertise? Basically because in my former paragraph, I mentioned that you're telling somebody about your products in a way of like a short message. So, you have to make your message short. Think of the most attractive line that you can think of which entails the most incredible thing about your product. You can insert a link to your message redirecting to your website, and people will click that once they get hooked with your short advertisement and gets interested to read more about it.
I know all the pros in internet marketing and twitter already know about these facts. I am telling this to all the rookies out there who are willing to grow their business and learn more of Twitter. I'm like you who have just entered the Twitter-universe and I'm quite unfamiliar with all these things.
So here's for you. Just a recap of what you might find on the other interesting blogs out there.
- When you sign up, create an attention-grabber user name. The description about you should summarize your niche, intentions, capabilities, and just about yourself. The @mention tab shares a list of tweets having your username mentioned on it.
- Hash tags assist you in discovering things on Twitter. This is seen on the sidebar of Twitter just below the followers and following part. It usually has “#” before the word. If submitting a word, use #word in your tweet. Hash tags may also be employed by teams to
organize items on twitter. - If you want to search for people who are on your niche, bookmark this page (http://search.twitter.com/advanced) to make an advanced search of your interest.
- If you're very active on Twitter, you may download Twitter Dashboards for tweeting and all. Two of the popular dashboards are Tweet Deck and Seesmic which is very useful to track updates of your niche.
- A Twitter list can help you keep tabs on a group of influential tweeters in your niche without letting them all know you’re following them. To create a list, just hover your cursor to the list tab and create list.
- Use twitter tools or apps that allows you to grow your following and choose targeted people of your niche. Some of the existing tools that provide this feature are Tweet tank, Tweet Big, Twittenator.
- You have to have tweet scheduler (Tweet Tank), to make tweets on the go while you're away from your computer. In this manner, you don't have to stay up front of your computer most of the time.
- Not all people who are following you or un-following you are real people, some are just bots used by those people who would want to feel like celebrities.
- The “Who to Follow” tab on twitter is a group of suggested people who you may want to follow. These people might be those who know you, you know, of your niche, or common with your other followed twitter people
10. Link your blogs on your twitter account by putting an “Addthis” buttons on your websites. Other than that, you can also place a “Follow Me” button on your blog pages to give people authority to follow you on Twitter without going to twitter page anymore.
11. If you want to copy a link from your website and share it on twitter, there is a website, tinyurl.com that shortens your link to save characters.
12. If you are into internet marketing, there are tutorials and e-books available to help you learn the basics of internet marketing on Twitter such as Twitter Tools Book and Twitter Marketing.
13. There is a twitter help page, Twitter Basics, where a lot of questions about Twitter are being posted and answered.
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About the Author
Mats Rehn is an expert in Twitter and gives bonuses on Internet Marketing.
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