Twitter, is a FREE service to communicate with your friends, family, co-workers and people around the world. And stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to simple question: What are you doing?

Twitter is really hot right now, and it is gaining members so fast like crazy, so a lot of Internet Marketers/Bloggers take advantage of this service because it’s FREE of charge and just answer the simple question: What are you doing? Now let me asked you, what are you doing right now?  Oops… Let me guess, Of course you’re reading this article of mine.

Do you know that Twitter can help you make your life easier in making money online? All over the Internet, there is a huge amount of people on the spot that using the service of Twitter, to get more updates and information about what are they doing? Building Responsive lists for their business is the one big key factor why they join Twitter.

Build Your Huge Responsive Lists on Twitter, to make money online. So what are you waiting for, start now not tomorrow. Do you know the saying that, the early bird to fly catches the early worm, which means the earlier the better? To start with twitter you just go to www.twitter.com  or just simply follow me in my twitter.com/getridz, and then join today. It’s simple, right.

Don’t hesitate to try this new system of building huge responsive lists. You better try this system and you will see the real outcome. Follow me now and I will follow you. Happy Twittering.

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The 2 titans in viral  marketing are currently Facebook and Twitter even though Twitter only has a fraction of the number of users of Facebook. At the time of this writing, Twitter has around 3 million users, compared to 200 million for Facebook, but all the buzz is about Twitter.

Being a user of both online viral marketing services, I can certainly see why Twitter trounces Facebook in many ways, but will it be able to knockout the champion? Let’s start by taking a look at some advantages of Twitter over Facebook.

5 Twitter Advantages:

1. Easy to get followers

2. Easy to follow people, no permission required, and few rules and restrictions.

3. Very simple and quick, maximum 140 characters per ?tweet?

4. Allows aliases

5. Searchable, with full profile views

Now let’s take a look at some areas where Facebook has an advantage:

1. Fan page feature

2. Better support for multi-media, although this is improving in Twitter

3. Creates trust

4. Very viral

5. Event page feature

Overall, Facebook is a lot more complex than Twitter. And it’s much more cumbersome and restrictive to get friends on Facebook. Friends must approve you and if you are not a friend, you can’t see a person’s full profile.

Facebook also has some archaic restrictions on adding friends. There is a friend threshold, and if you go over the limit Facebook will disable your ability to add friends for an unspecified amount of time. And they also don’t publish the threshold so it’s a guessing game.

And if you violate their mysterious rules and restrictions too many times, Facebook will disable your account permanently and you will have to start all over with a new account and 0 friends. I know several people that have had this happen after growing their friend lists to a few thousand friends. And they weren’t even told what they did wrong. Ouch! I’m doing my best to avoid this.

I have personally violated the “mysterious adding friend threshold”. When I got slapped by Facebook for this I was not able to add any new friends for over a week. I significantly reduced the number of friends I was inviting each day and still got a nasty email threatening from them.

If you want to get started in viral marketing check out twitter for it’s ease of use, short messages, and lack of prohibitive rules and restrictions. The main thing, I’ve found that it’s a lot of fun and you can learn a lot from people posting interesting info!

And now I would like to invite you to claim your Free Access to “15 Ways To Grow Your Business Online”. Just click here to send me a blank email and you’ll start receiving valuable information that can help you get more traffic to your website or blog and make more money from your visitors.

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TweetLater.com Anyone?

No doubt that Twitter is one of the most effective tools an affiliate marketer or an online business marketer can have. If you are a new online marketer and you have no idea what we are talking about here, let us break down the sentence above even further.

Twitter is a social networking website that allows users to post details about themselves in 140 characters or more. Your details that you micro-post are seen by those who follow your tweets. Twitter can be used by a marketer’s advantage through the following:

It allows a marketer to advertise his or her goods and services in a personal level.
It promotes traffic.

Just post your website link in your tweet and ask your followers to visit this so that they can [insert whatever hook you have in your business].
For up and running affiliate sites, you can ask for feedback on what your Twitter friends think about your site.

You get to know what is the latest niche or topic in Twitter-land real time, with no cost. You can use this information to boost traffic to your site.
Look for talents where you can outsource your work to.

Now, there is a particular tool connected to Twitter called TweetLater.com. Using TweetLater.com to your advantage will be most advantageous to an affiliate marketer to ensure constant posting without having to hire someone to post for you and without having to chain yourself to your laptop.

TweetLater.com is a tool that will allow you to continuously post tweets even if you are not in front of your PC, without typing the tweet on your mobile or on your PDA. Use TweetLater.com to post your tweets for you throughout the day. Its like making postdated tweets for future posting.

If you are excited to go about doing this, here are the steps.

Go to TweetLater.com and click on register
Importantly, use your Twitter account details in your registration.
After registration, log in TweetLater.com using your Twitter username and password.
Click the button that looks like a pencil which will allow you to edit your account. You can choose to have an automatic welcome message to your new followers and other actions you want for TweetLater.com to do for you.
To make post dated tweets, click on the link that says Scheduled Tweets and plug in the details of your scheduled tweets.

As a marketer, you have to acknowledge the power of reaching out to your audience.

So the more constantly and the more personally that you reach out to them, the more they will gravitate towards your business. Having a TweetLater.com account to ensure that your audience will regularly be reminded of you is a good idea to familiarize your audience more and more about your business. In this fast paced world where everything is instant, from coffee to mashed potatoes, if you spend even just a week away from the audiences, you and your business will already be slipping away from your audience consciousness. With TweetLater.com, you will avoid this unfortunate occurrence as you take a quick vacation from your marketing tasks

To find out lots more tips on how to market your busines son Twitter and use specific techniques to make money on Twitter, go to Check it out here

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What is Twitter? It’s a free social networking service that operates on a very simple premise; you ask (and answer) your network of friends, family and coworkers one ongoing simple question, “What are you doing?” They and you respond to each other, which lets you stay interconnected in real time with quick, very short answers. Now, this might not seem like a good way to promote your business or otherwise make money, but in fact it can be.

Let’s take a look at some of the ways you can make money using Twitter. If you have a lot of followers on Twitter (meaning that a lot of people see you on Twitter), you can do both advertising and promotion to make money. That is, you can recommend a particular product or service that you sell yourself, or you can do it on behalf of advertisers who sell the product. You can also help advertisers promote a new product or service that hasn’t yet gotten a lot of play. Affiliate marketing and sales of products or services, or selling your own products and services is an other possibility. Yes, you can actually do affiliate marketing within Twitter. You can do this by embedding affiliate links in your “tweets”.

One great way to get more traffic to your website is to run a contest on Twitter that gets you feedback about your products or services, or gives you brand awareness. You can also do this with affiliate products as well. For example, one contest might have the question, “Tell me how I can improve my product using just 140 characters.” The best answer gets a prize. The bottom line is that because Twitter is a social networking service, you’ve got lots and lots of opportunities to earn exposure for your business. These are just some ways to get you started, but I bet you’ll think of many more on your own. Twittering can be both fun and profitable. Get creative and enjoy!

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Why are so many people using Twitter? Why would more 3 million people visit this website? Why are so many technology companies taking advantage of it?

This is really two questions: First, What is Twitter? And second, how do people use it? Here’s a short list of the top benefits of using Twitter.

These updates or tweets known as Twitter, provides the users the benefits to the users for sharing the messages,status updates, what they are doing to anyone who has decided to follow each tweet and really connect with the people who follow them. The members can get these updates through the twitter website, an RSS feed, text message, email, numerous applications including other blogging, social media websites and more.

Twitter: What’s the Big Attraction? (or as my Sig-O says, “Why on earth would total strangers care what you’re up to?”)

Networking: A great way to meet people. If you are in a business with a niche market, you can discover new people that have similar interests to yours.

Marketing: It’s not just about big companies like Dell, Comcast, etc. It’s about connecting with your audience and having a real presence on Twitter. I find that I get business by just having that more personal face to my company on Twitter, and engaging the community.

Stream of Information: I seem to be getting breaking news and information on Twitter before most news sources. A great example was when the last earthquake hit the Bay Area. It was all over Twitter a good 10 minutes before CNN had it as breaking news.

It’s great! People from all over the planet use Twitter. You can always find someone who shares your interests and wants to chat.

If you haven’t checked out Twitter you should absolutely take a look.  It’s a very simple, straightforward site. There are many ways to “cross post” which means typing a single status message and have it show up in other social networking sites (not to mention any names).

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The ultimate goal when using Twitter is to network, and to do that, you have to begin by finding people to follow. It’s a good idea to build a list of followers that are within your industry’s target audience, it is beneficial to add Twitter users with outside interests to your list as well who might add some variety to your network.

Twitter isn’t just a place to update what time you brushed your teeth or what you thought of today’s cloudy weather. It is much more powerful than that, especially when you’re following a network of people in your industry.  Twitter allows you to connect with your peers and get new ideas, start joint ventures, and other deals that may not have been able to materialize in other typical business activities.

Aside from the amazing business opportunites that often arise, Twitter also allows you to simply “vibe” with your peers and those in the same industry that understand everything you’re passionate about as well as the trouble you may be having. What would once be limited to a very small network of people “at the office”, can now virtually be thousands of people who connect with you on several levels. The support that you can get out of that connection is priceless.

Sounds, good, right? But how do you go about finding these people to connect with?

Well, there is more than one way to find followers on Twitter. Here are a few:

• Choose from “Everyone”
  When you’re on your main home page, you can click the link on the right column that reads "Everyone". This will literally show you tweets from everyone on Twitter. Grab yourself a cup of joe and scroll through until you see something that catches your attention. Click their name to see more of their tweets, and if you like them, follow!
• Find People!
  There’s actually a button at the top of the twitter home page that allows you to search by people’s name. This is great for whipping through a list of people you already know to see if their on twitter, either by their real name, or by a username you know they typically use.
• Other Networks
  If you have email contact lists on any of the major accounts online (Gmail, MSN, etc.) then you can choose “Find On Other Networks” on your twitter home page as well, and it will allow you to import any contacts you may have that are in the Twitter system.
• Suggested Users
  Twitter has a “suggested users” link as well, but all too often it’ll just show you celebrity names and other people that won’t actually do much for your business. However, if you’re a huge fan of Brad and Angelina, then you might still want to check out this feature.

There are still a few other obvious ways such as using the Search function that will show you results based on name ot topic that you enter.

You can find someone with a list of the same type of people you’re looking to follow. On their home page, you’ll see a link on the right that reads “following”. Click that and you’ll see their whole list. Start browsing!

Of course, you will also be following people who have chosen to follow you. It’s a good idea to take a look at their latest 10-20 tweets before you actually click the follow button though, because you do want to have at least something in common. Some people choose to simply make it a rule to follow whoever follows them. It’s up to you. Either way, start building your followers!

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In this article I want to share my experience with Twitter.

I love to explore new fields and I was wondering how good is the social marketing that people are trying to do. I read a book with tips on how you can improve your twitter experience and how easy it is to drive traffic to your site with a short post of 140 characters.

In the book there was an example how the author get 20-30 visits to his site from just one post when he has about 1000 followers. OK… I started to think – if I have 3k followers then I can have 100 visitors to my site with just one post.
Sounds great, right?

And here comes the experiment… I’m web developer and I thought I should try making a tool that is twitter-related. Obviously when I try to pull traffic from twitter I should make a tool or share information that is targeted to these users.

So I made a small tool where you enter your twitter details and it displays a map of your twitter followers. It is a visual representation of the locations of the user’s followers.
In this tool I used the twitter API to pull the list of followers and then I put pins on Google map (this is the tool: http://friendloc.webily.com/).

It is free tool and I don’t have anything put on this page to generate leads or any attempts for monetization of the traffic. It is just an experiment for now… so… let’s see the results.
I have more than 2k followers on twitter and I posted 2 updates about this tool. I made these posts in the most active time on twitter. Actually this is what I supposed is the most active time – the evenings in USA, because most of my followers are Americans.

From these 2 posts I have total of 12 visitors to the site. Not a great result, but I suppose it can be improved if I’m more active on twitter. You see… you need to establish connection with your followers and bring really valuable (and mostly free) information. And you should chat with them more actively. I love twitter and I find really great information and resources from the post of the twitters I follow. When I love the posting I try to thank the poster and build a relationship… I discuss the resource shared with him and this is a kind of becoming friend with this particular user.

If you make lot of friends there probably your results will be better.

So try to give valuable information, try to interact more with your followers and you’re on the right path to drive targeted traffic to your site.

And just a quick comparison with the other traffic sources I used:
Digg – 30 visitors in a month;
ViralNetworks (post in the forum) – 20 visits in a month;
LinkedIn (news posting in 2 groups with about 1 mln members) – 18 visits in 2 days;
StumbleUpon – 10 visits in 1 week;
Facebook (I have less than 200 friends there) – 7 visits in a month.

I think LinkedIn performs best from these social sites I tried.

Total of 133 unique visitors in a month.  Not a great result, but for the time spent (1 hour to build the tool and 10-15 minutes to post on the social sites) I think it is not bad. If you write an article in 10 minutes and drive this traffic it is great. 10 articles in a month and you have 1000 visitors. If you manage to monetize this traffic then… this is the way to make money on the internet.

Hope you find my experiment and the results useful.

Thanks for reading and wish you luck!

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Twitter is in a league of it’s own, it’s a different kind of web 2.0 social marketing. It’s nothing like MySpace and Facebook, or even Digg and Propeller to name a few.It’s a lot more like blogging and mini-blogging and micro-blogging and yet it’s not. So what the heck is Twitter and how do you profit from it?

Twitter is one part chat and one part blogging. Mini blogging to be exact, as you only get 140 characters per post.  Some businesses such as traffic generation explosion like to referrer to Twitter as Micro-blobbing. 

You can also use Twitter on your cell phone to keep in touch better. Some of the benefits are you have the aspects of social sites because you can follow others and be followed as well. 

1. Immediate Interaction 

The immediate interaction is one reason to use twitter in your marketing efforts.  This will help build the relationship with your customers and friends that so many are looking for. 

You get to interact immediately with your customers (followers) in a way you can’t do with a regular blog or even via comments on sites like MySpace and Facebook.

 2. Twitter is being used by everyone 

This goes along with number one. You get closer to your customer base which helps build your relationship. As more and more people start using Twitter you will see more benefits, so will your competition. If you don’t adapt and take advantage of applications like Twitter you’ll be left behind and lose customers. 

3. Short and to The Point, make it count 

Twitter like a phone text message, limits you to 140 characters.We all know we are too busy, get bombarded with too many marketing messages and too many emails to read much more than that anyway.  Your customers will appreciate these short and to the point messages. 

If you’re not using Twitter, I highly recommend you start. It’s another marketing channel for your Internet marketing efforts to pay off.  http://www.traffic-generation-explosion.com would like to thank Twitter for all they do.  Keep up the great work Twitter. 

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There are at least a dozen reasons why your company should twitter. I’m going to focus on five of those here, and hopefully open the doors to further discussion in the near future.

Reason #1: Immediacy
Think of the benefits of immediate access to your target audience and customers. Announce product recalls and avoid lawsuits. Answer customer questions on the spot. Engage with non-followers who mention your product, company, or competitors. Reward followers with incentives. Announce sales and links to quarterly earnings. Immediacy gives you to reach your audience now.

Examples:

Last minute push to complete a fundraiser Traffic updates Leaking info about the upcoming release of a new product Posting links to your latest article or press release Answering customer questions so quick, they feel valued as a customer.

Reason #2: Influence
Hundreds, possibly thousands, of people are asking themselves and others for recommendations on products and services. Every second of the day, someone is using Twitter to ask for recommendations. How much easier can it get to build your customer base? Be there to answer their questions and make a winning first impression.

Example Questions Being Twittered Right Now:

“What’s the best joint pain reliever medicine?” ” What’s the best place to grab a drink around pike place market?” “What’s the best book you’ve most recently read?” “What’s the best airline website you’ve ever used?” “What’s the best mobile broadband in Ingerland?” ” What’s the best Twitter app for the iPhone right now?” “What’s the best ad service for a blog do you reckon? Or is adsense still great?” “What’s the software product that can best be described as “Powerpoint on Steriods”? Not web based software”

As you can see, anything goes. People just want information. They want recommendations. Someone who has used the product or service can offer their experience. Think about that. There are some creative solutions and approaches there.

Reason #3: Reputation
In the 21st Century, you don’t have days to respond to a negative story about your company. You may not even have hours. Twitter provides an immediacy of information unprecedented in the history of the world.

Example: While in Dallas a few weeks back, I heard about the earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area thirty minutes before most people right next door in Los Angeles. Geographic proximity as an influencing factor is now irrelevant to the equation of immediacy. As long as someone twitters it somewhere in the world, you can catch the latest news within seconds.

The downside to this immediacy is the lighting fast spread of negative news. Rumors of bankruptcy, scandal, or defective products hit the wire and thousands of people are sharing the news with their friends before you’ve ever heard a word. If it’s newsworthy, it’s going to be twittered. If you’re not monitoring Twitter and presenting your company’s face and position to the world there, your company is vulnerable to viral attack.

Reason #4: Exposure
While there are no guarantees that someone you follow on Twitter will reciprocate and follow you back, following a person or organization is like a notification of existence. It says, “Here I am! Check me out and see if I’m worth following back.” Each user is typically notified via email of each new follower, thus giving them an opportunity to review new followers and possibly reciprocate the follow.

By searching Twitter for users within a specific geographic area or by the topics of their conversations, any organization can cherry-pick their friends based on common goals or interests. This is the easiest method of increasing exposure I’ve ever heard of.

Reason #5: Traffic
Your company has a website. And you want people to visit it, if not purchase something or contact you through it. With Twitter, you can increase traffic to your site simply by engaging others.

Methods for Increasing Traffic:

Answer other people’s questions Poll for opinions Post links to your newest articles Announce sales Recommend other Twitter users to your audience, thereby engendering appreciation

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Last Monday, I was at Social Media Simplified where I learned about how social media can be used for business. Mari Smith, Deb Micek, Simon Leung, Denise Wakeman (1/2 the Blog Squad), Nancy Marmolejo, and host Linda P. Taylor blew us away with the statistics on how Facebook, blogging and Twitter are radically changing the entrepreneurial environment of the world. Practical, easy tips for things you can do today to start maximizing your social media connections.

I loved every minute soaking up the info like a sponge. It wasn’t until I got home, though, that I realized Twitter could be a fun tool for building a romantic relationship as well.

For all of you who are saying, “What in the world is Twitter?”, I can relate. I began hearing about Twitter last summer and joined in August. Twitter leads the way in the world of micro blogging. Micro because you can only use 140 characters in any one message. Blog because you are communicating to the internet world with your thoughts and ideas.

Once you join, you pick a handle (remember Rubber Ducky from the trucker and cb days?) and you are good to go, mine is CaptainCat. Ask your friends to join and the fun begins. I love creating conversations with the 140 character limit. It’s a great game!

Deb Micek (CoachDeb at Tribal Seduction) revamped my view of Twitter and the tweets (that is what the messages are called) and I began to see that the Twitter mentality might just be a great tool build some nice buzz in the beehive, if you know what I mean.

Here are Five Ways to Use Twitter To Jazz Up Your Love Life!

1. Invest Your Emotional Self. Consciously enjoy your relationships on Twitter. I love to tweet (create the messages). Similar to crossword puzzles and other word games, Twitter engages your creativity, your imagination and your communication skills. Allow yourself to feel the satisfaction of connection. Your man may not engage with you in this same way and that is ok. You can feel connected to others and fill your emotional tank.

2. Invite him to join. Your man may roll his eyes at your internet fun, but if you put your mind to it, you can find a way to invite his participation. You may be his only friend for awhile and he may want to DM (direct message) you only, but if you sell it to him as a word game, tell him it is easier than instant messaging and that you will send him some cute and maybe even naughty messages, he may just give it a try.

3. Be Patient. If he declines your first invitation, don’t despair. You keep having fun on Twitter, however, and listen up here…this is critical, stop tweeting when you and he are at the dinner table, taking a walk or being together in any way. You will communicate boatloads to him when he sees you turn off your phone or computer and really “Be” with him.

4. Introduce Him To The Fun Of Tweets. Create some tweets and put them on post it notes and put them around the house where your man can see them. If you like using abbreviations, use them but let him know what they mean. LOL (laughing out loud) We fall into the lingo so easily, we forget others don’t know what it is all about. Your man will appreciate getting up to speed with Twitterese and he won’t feel out of place.

5. Every Day Tweet Mentality: Ladies, it is amazing how much can be said in a 140 character statement. Try having a Twitter mentality when you are speaking to your man. How briefly can you say what you need to say and yet still be understood. Men have such a hard time with the verbal flood that comes out of our mouths, bless them. Do him and yourself a favor and tweet to you man. Keep it short and simple. He will love you for it!

If you are a beginner in the world of social media and even if you are a veteran, I strongly recommend you get yourself a copy of the Social Media Simplified DVD series. I would have saved myself hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars has I known how to use social media like Facebook and Twitter strategically in my business. Linda has a special deal going so don’t waste another minute, order your copy today.

One other cool thing is that a part of the purchase price goes to support the Ventura Technical Development Center. Talk about a win-win-win!

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