This means theres a whole new emerging market of tech savvy, blogging experienced users thats just waiting to be grasped. A great opportunity indeed!
But first, for those a bit unfamiliar with micro blogging and more importantly twitter, let me explain a bit how it works. Twitter is basically a service that allows you to update your status with short messages, of up to 140 characters, just like a SMS text message.
What makes it so special is that it also has social elements, allowing users to befriend each other; in twitter this is called following. Whenever youre following somebody on twitter youll be able to instantly receive their updates and keep up to date with someones status. Furthermore because mobility and fastness are of the utmost importance in micro blogging, twitter allows you to update your status via the web page, IM, mobile phone, blackberry or various other third party applications.
Why You Should Use Twitter
When I first started out using twitter, about 2 months ago, I was very skeptical regarding its actual utility and purpose, as I found the notion of knowing what people were up to kinda irrelevant. Off eating dinner, My flight just arrived in San Francisco, Walking my dog. Why should I care about anything like this? Well if you, like I have in the beginning, think thats all there is to twitter, then youre just making mis perceptions. Truth is theres more to it then meets the eye my friends.
After I first register an account I felt a bit out of place and lonely, because I wasnt following anyone and no one was following me. I soon started twitting a bit though, followed a bunch of people I knew and started socializing. After a while I soon realized how powerful twitter can really be and what kind of benefits it can bring. Its been widely proven that twitter can be easily used as a self-promotion tool, to pitch your content, services and products with ease. This is done by broadcasting your message, although short, to your followers. Sounds familiar ? Thats because twittering resembles a lot blogging, except your messange is broadcasted in real time to your reader. Its this mixture of blogging, RSS and social networking that makes twitter so appealing.
Still not convinced? Heres a few more reasons why twitter rocks.
Traffic
Although at fist glance it might seem like twitter isnt capable of directing any respectable amount of traffic, truth is, if used properly, it can provide your blog with quite a few new visitors.
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