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:
- People who you follow generally follow you back, so you can get the word out about your new posts, online finds etc
- 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.
- Interaction: You can send your friends articles, communicate smoothly instead of over time with emails.
- 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
