Social Networking Tips – Growing Your Business With Twitter

Twitter is a free social networking site that is taking the online world by storm. Everybody’s talking about Twitter nowadays.  You can’t get through a newscast these days without somebody mentioning Twitter or Tweets.  Even Barack Obama tweets.  But what exactly is this new social marketing tool, and how can you use it to grow your business?

What Is Twitter?

At it’s most basic, it’s a type of online subscription service for text messages, but it can do so much more, especially for helping you grow your business.

Twitter is a tool that allows users to send instant messages and to social network via short messages, also known as micro-blogs.

Users can create Twitter messages (up to 140 characters in length), more commonly called tweets, through their Twitter pages, IMs, Facebook accounts, emails, SMS text messages from their mobile phones and third-party applications . It also has a handy feature which allows you to send direct (private) messages to your friends on Twitter.

Twitter gives you the ability to think at the speed of the Internet. Any bleeding edge thing you’re working on, you’ll find someone doing something similar.

Using Twitter To Grow Your Business – 7 Tips

Twitter is like a blog on a microscopic scale, hence the term “micro-blogging”. Instead of writing whole posts and notifying your mailing list  whenever a new post gets published, a tweet (what a Twitter post is called) can be a maximum of 140 characters only, and the people who are following you get your whole tweet at once, instead of having to go to your website.

What started out as — has now become a huge phenomenon.  Companies like Apple, Intel, H&R Block and Zappos all have a presence on Twitter.  As mentioned earlier, so is the new President of the United States.

So how can you leverage this zeitgeist for growing your business?

First of all, you need to get up and running on Twitter, ASAP.

Once you register your Twitter account, the next step is to start building your list of followers. While this may sound like you have just joined a “cult”, don’t worry … it simply refers to the process of building a list of people that want to receive your tweets and be kept informed about your business, much like building a mailing list for your web site or blog.

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