Written by on September 19, 2008 – 9:25 am
Twitter seen has been long discuss that drive many benefits for blogger. But, I’m running a enterprise business, I don’t think so it was suitable for me to build a home based business with twitter don’t even though of big company.
I have register for twitter for some time, most of the time I will recording what I have doing online for my blog. Until I came across few articles called “50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business“.
We really can’t deny the fact that businesses are testing out Twitter as part of their steps into the social media landscape. You can say it’s a stupid application, that no business gets done there, but there are too many of us (including me) that can disagree and point out business value. I’m not going to address the naysayers much with this. Instead, I’m going to offer 50 thoughts for people looking to use Twitter for business. And by “business,” I mean anything from a solo act to a huge enterprise customer.
In this post I want to explore how I’m using twitter to build my business network, improve quality blog traffics and build my home business.
About Twitter
Twitter is the latest social networking success story. While I like the simple concept of the site being the answer to the simple question, “What are you doing?” .
Twitter is an online application that is part blog, part social networking site, and part cell phone/IM tool. It is designed to let users describe what they are doing or thinking at a given moment in 140 characters or less. As a tool for students and faculty to compare thoughts on a topic, Twitter could be used academically to foster interaction and support metacognition.
I found a site that provide the details instruction how to sign up and setting your twitter account. You can rad those information.
Go to http://twitterhelp.blogspot.com
Twitter Usage and Traffics
How Twitter Post Help You ?
I found a short summary in doshdosh.com all the 17 ways you can use Twitter for both your professional or personal life. Some of these methods go beyond the use of Twitter as a lifestreaming device:
1. Personal Branding. Twitter is a social media platform you can use to build your personal brand. It has the primary benefit of developing a casual persona and establishes you as a social personality that is connected and approachable. As Twitter adoption increases, new users will be drawn towards well established Twitter personas.
2. Get Feedback. Need an alternative perspective on how a website looks or the right course of action to take? Blast out a message asking for advice and you’ll receive replies from other users. This collective intelligence can be used as fodder for articles or projects.
3. Hire People. Need a good logo designer, marketer or programmer? Send out a message asking for recommendations. This is a very quick and easy way to hire freelancers or even companies based on familiar recommendations.
4. Direct traffic. Twitter can be used to get traffic to your websites or the sites of friends. If you ask your friends to tweet about it, the message will spread faster and further as other active users pick it up. There is a viral nature to all types of news, even on a site like Twitter.
5. Read News. Twitter users often link to useful sites or articles and can be a source of scoops and alternative news. You can also subscribe to Twitter feeds for specific websites/conferences, which allows you to receive and view content quickly. This is very useful for active social news participants.
6. Make New Friends. Like any other social network, Twitter has a built-in function for you to befriend and track the messages of other users. This is an easy way for you connect with people outside of your usual circle. Make an effort to add active users you find interesting. A Twitter acquaintance can be developed into a long lasting friendship.
7. Network for benefits. Twitter can be used as a socializing platform for you to interact with other like-minded people, especially those in the same industry. It can be used to establish consistent and deeper relationships for future benefits such as testimonials or peer recommendations.
8. Use it as a ToDo list. Use Twitter to record down what you need to do while you are away from the computer. Mark the tweet as a favorite to file it for referencing. Another alternative is to use an Online task management service that is synced with Twitter. One example is Remember The Milk.
9. Business Management. Twitter can be used as a company intranet that connects employees to one another. Workers can liaise with each other when working on group projects. Particularly useful when certain workers go out often in the field. Updates could be set to private for security reasons.
10. Notify Your Customers. Set up a Twitter feed for the specific purpose of notifying customers when new products come in. Customers can subscribe via mobile or RSS for instant notification. Twitter can also be used to provide mini-updates for one-on-one clients.
11. Take Notes. Twitter provides you with an easy way to record important ideas or concepts you want to explore further. Include links relevant to ideas you want to explore. Note taking can also be done offline via mobile applications.
12. Event Updates. Businesses can use Twitter as a means to inform event participants and latest event happenings/changes. This is a hassle-free way of disseminating information, especially when you don’t have the means to set up a direct mobile link between you and the audience
13. Find Prospects. Twitter can be used as a means to find potential customers or clients online. Do a search for keywords related to your product on Terraminds and then follow users. Tweet about topics parallel to your product and close prospects away from public channels by using direct messages or offline communications. Discretion and skill is needed in this area.
14. Provide Live coverage. Twitter’s message size limit prevents detailed coverage of events but it can allow you to provide real-time commentary which may help to spark further discussion or interest on the event as other Twitter users spread the message. Very useful for citizen journalism.
15. Time Management and Analysis. Twitter can simply be used to keep a detailed record of what you are doing every daily. This might be boring for others but this type of usage is useful when you want to analyze how you spend and manage your time.
16. Set Up Meetings. Twitter can help you organize impromptu meetups. For example, you can twitter a message while at a cafe, event or art gallery and arrange to meet fellow users at a specific spot. It’s an informal and casual way of arranging a meeting.
17. Acquire Votes. Send a link to your stories you’ve submitted in other social news sites like Digg. Sometimes your followers will vote up the stories because they agree with it. This allows you to acquire more support for your efforts on other social media websites.
An small business expert John Jantsch is a marketing and digital technololgy coach. He is an award winning social media publisher and author of Duct Tape Marketing have describe more information how twitter helps for small business.Download Twitter For Business Report
Useful Twitter Tools
Wordpress Twitter Tools - creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account
Twitter Tools is a nice plugin that creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
Pull your tweets into your blog and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.
Here are some key features of “Twitter Tools”:
-Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 30 minutes)
-Create a blog post from each of your tweets
-Create a daily archive of Twitter tweets
-Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post
-Post a tweet from your sidebar
-Post a tweet from the WP Admin screens
-Pass your tweets along to another service (via API hook)
TweetSavr - A screensaver that connects to your Twitter account to display your latest tweets
TweetSavr is a Mac OS X screensaver that connects to your Twitter account to display your latest tweets, your friends, or even public tweets.
TweetSavr helps you to keep up-to date with your Twitter account without having to be sitting in front of your Mac.
Twitterrific - Read and publish posts or tweets to the Twitter community website
Twitterrific is a fun little application that will allow you to both read and publish posts or tweets to the Twitter community website.
To get started, visit the Twitter home page to sign up for an account for use with Twitterrific. Twitter accounts are free, take only minutes to set up and are a great way to stay connected with people around the globe.
Hints:
? Clicking on the avatar image will take you to that user’s page on Twitter. Hovering over the image will show the account name.
? The arrow to the right of the person’s name will take you to their website when you click on it.
? You can use the arrows to navigate through tweets even when the list is collapsed.
? The user name and their message can be selected and copied to the clipboard. You can also right click on the text for more options.
NOTE: Twitterrific can be used free of charge with no limitations. Registering the program removes all advertising and helps support future improvements.
Here are some key features of “Twitterrific”:
- Clean, concise UI with small desktop footprint
-Supports multiple Twitter accounts
-Auto refreshing at user defined intervals
-Replies and direct messages are displayed inline
-Number of unread tweets shown in the Dock
-Delete tweets from Twitter quickly and easily
-Auto show / hide when new tweets arrive
-Control over window layering and priority
- Single click access to user profile pages
-Switch between friend and public tweets easily
-Keyboard shortcuts for list navigation and more
-Control Twitterrific with AppleScript
-Audio notification for new tweets
-Hotkey to show / hide tweets
Download Twitterific
To feed your blog to twitter - http://www.twitterfeed.com
Keeping Up your friends in twitter become easier with this tools. Go to http://www.snook.ca/snitter/
Twitter Theme
TwitterGallery has nice collection of Free Twitter themes with can be installed easily. You can browse themes by category or color. After you select a theme, use following steps to install it:
- Log in your twitter acount
- Go to Settings » Design
- Check Use my custom style below
- Put the code give on the webpage
- Click on Save & its done.
Besides Twitter Themes, you can also download free ‘follow-me’ buttons. You can display these buttons on your blog to make visitors follow you on Twitter.
Checkout TwitterGallery for nice set of Twitter goodies - Themes and Follow Me buttons ready for download and use!
Looking For Help In Twitter?
twitterhelp.blogspot.com
