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How To Use Twitter Effectively

Posted on 27. Nov, 2009 by Deepika in Fruitful Fridays, Social Networks

Twitter is the most popular social bookmarking network. It was founded in 2006 by Jock Dorsey. According to one survey on October 2009 around 79.7 million people are using twitter.

Yes, in three years twitter has shown an enormous growth. Twitter users can read and send messages. They are called Tweets. There are limits for everything and twitter limits you with 140 characters. Not sure, why they have chosen the number. This has made Twitter a popular micro blogging platform.

How to use twitter effectively:

Choose Right People:

You can follow people in twitter. It is easy to follow. But you should be very choosy in following others. The quality and reputation of your twitter account depends on whom you follow.
Follow the people based on your Niche. And you can also follow the active users in twitter. It will be more helpful to get any suggestions from them. And you can also follow the active users in twitter.

Business Management:

Twitter can be used as a company intranet. This connects your employees. Workers can update with each other when they are working on group projects.
Particularly twitter is useful when certain workers go out often in the field. You can also send updates in private for security reasons.

Track Hot Topics:

You can be noticeable, when you take part in hot conversations. This makes you to connect with more twitter people. You can also share your thoughts with them. If you have a website you can also promote that by participating in hot topics.
• Collecta:
This one of the best site to know what is the current hot topic. By knowing the topics from this site you can start participate in that discussion using your twitter account. Thus you can improve your ideas regarding that topic.

Improve Traffic:

If you have the following, twitter can be a great way to increase traffic to your website. You can update your followers with recent trends and products. So that your site becomes an engaged online community. You can also use link shortner.
• Bit.ly Link shortner

Bit.ly is a free service website. This is used to shorten the long url. In twitter you can post only 140 characters. So you have to shorten the links to send your post with in 140 character. This bit.ly is really very useful and it shortens the links. Just try this.

Tweet at the peak time:

You have to know at what time your twitter members will be active. If you do at that time it helps to increase more traffic to your site. To know that there is good service provided by Tweeto’clock . This shows the best time to tweet. Just enter the username of the person whom you want to tweet. This service will provide the peak time of that person.

Don’t Feel Shy:

The Twitter is an open and furious one, so don’t be afraid to reach out to anyone and tweet. There will be a debate going always in twitter. Just take part in that conversation. You should experiment to see which fits your community best.

Positive Straights:

Twitter helps to organize great, instant meetups. It breaks news faster than other sources, often and gives businesses a glimpse at what status messaging can do for an organization.
Twitter brings great minds together, and gives you daily opportunities to learn and gives your critics a forum. It helps with business development.

Advanced Options:

There are many services available. They provide you an efficient and effective way to use your twitter account. They are:
• twitbacks and freetwitterdesigner. These services help you to create attractive twitter backgrounds.
• Twitter search engine is very useful in real-time search. This provides you with the hot topic around the world.
• Twitscoop and Tweetmeme you can also try these services.
• TwitterAnalyzer gives the in-depth analytics of twitter members, like number of tweets per day, popularity, reach, links, followers growth, who is retweeting, your real-time online graph etc., It is really cool just try this.

Related posts:

1. 5 Ways to get more followers on Twitter
2. Do’s And Dont’s To Get More Followers In Twitter
3. 10 tips to promote your blog with Twitter
4. Twitter – beyond 140 characters
5. How To Use Facebook Effectively

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