Quick Reasons to use Twitter

This post is for a friend who was hesitant to use twitter. We had an extended email conversation, and I wondered the entire time why we weren’t just twittering it, and he wanted to know the reasons why. So here we go, why use twitter:

Lets start with my twitter profile @footinmouth:

• Communication Style: 140 character microblogs – Example of a Tweet:
• You can send messages @ specific accounts, like @bloggingmothers or @mwilton13
• You can follow other peoples “twitter streams” of messages.

• Other people can follow your messages in your twitter stream.
• You can send private messages that aren’t shown publicly as well
• You can get a Firefox Extension like Twitterfox so you don’t even need to go to twitter.com

Uses:

1. People who you follow generally follow you back, so you can get the word out about your new posts, online finds etc
2. Follow industry leaders: For SEO I follow @graywolf, @mattcutts, etc and can see what they are twittering about. Instead of reading blog posts a day or two after they’re posted, I get it right away and sometimes participate in their conversations that found their posts.
3. Interaction: You can send your friends articles, communicate smoothly instead of over time with emails.
4. Build relationships: I have found new freinds at twitter, had twitter freinds like @erinmaher, who does a blogging tip blog, write a guest blog about content writing for newbies, and got added to this website Magazine article for tweets about 2009, all through twitter.

I have enjoyed this site, it’s helped me personally, professionally and I completely recommend this for…well…everyone! There are many more reasons, but these are the most fundamental in my opinion: So…What do you say? Join Twitter? Let me know if I missed any important points!

Update: Even Search Engines are getting into it @Yahoorealestate