Written on January 23rd, 2008 at 10:01 pm by Darren Rowse
9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers
I was a little slow getting onto Twitter last year (when so many other bloggers embraced it). To be honest I didn’t think it had much to offer me – I’m beginning to see how wrong I was.
In this post I want to explore how I’m using Twitter to:
- improve the quality of my blogs
- network with other bloggers
- widen my readership
- grow my profile
- drive traffic to my blogs
Before I get into some of the benefits of Twitter – let me say that I’m still new to it as a medium. I’m in a phase of experimenting and finding my voice. So please treat this as a progress report rather than a complete and definitive one.
Also note that tomorrow I’ll share some of the more practical tips of how I’m finding Twitter to be most useful. Today is more the ‘benefits’ and tomorrow I’ll make some suggestions about how to use the tool more effectively. Subscribe to my feed to ensure you don’t miss that post.
The Benefits of Twitter (to me)
One of the main things that I’ve discovered about Twitter is that no two Twitter users are using it in the same way. Almost every Twitter user that I come across tells me that they have a different objective when it comes to using it and are benefiting from it differently.
As a result I won’t attempt to write a definitive list of the benefits of Twitter – but will share how I’ve found it to benefit me (feel free to add your own comments).
1. Research Tool
One of the things that I’ve come to enjoy about Twitter the most is the way that it can be used when you’re researching a post.
- Stuck for inspiration? Twitter and idea and see what others add to it.
- Need an example for a point you’re making? Twitter it and you might get some good ones.
- Got a question that you’re stuck on? Ask it to your followers to see what they think.
- Need to test a hypothesis? Do a straw poll on your followers.
The beauty of Twitter is that it’s quick, is used by a wide variety of types of people and because of the 140 character limit to messages it keeps interactions concise, manageable and productive (usually).
Example – Let me illustrate this with a ‘live’ example. Lets just say that I’m writing a post on RSS feed subscriptions and wanted to find out how many feeds people were following. I’d post a Tweet like this:
Now I actually posted that Tweet a few minutes ago and in the time that it took me to grab a screen shot of the tweet and made myself a coffee I’ve had the following responses:
What other medium can you gather that kind of data in 5 minutes? (actually by now – 10 minutes later there have been 30 responses and it’s the middle of the night for most of my followers).
2. Reinforce (and expand) Your Personal Brand
I’ve written previously about how I’ve found interacting on multiple mediums can be important in building your personal brand. Whether it be social networking, blogging, bookmarking, real life interactions etc – all of these ’straws’ when added together can go a long way to building your own brand. Twitter is another ’straw’ in my personal brand (and that of my blogs).
What I’ve found is that I’m getting emails and messages from people saying things like:
- ‘I used to read you at ProBlogger but had lost track until I found you on Twitter’
- ‘I subscribe to your RSS feed on the blog but seeing your posts on Twitter reminds me to read them more’
- ‘I was scanning through someone else’s Twitters yesterday and saw your face. I recognized it from your Facebook account so thought I’d check out you.’
- ‘I saw your name mentioned the other day on Scott Karp’s Twitter feed. I hadn’t seen your blog for a while and it reminded me to resubscribe.’
This type of comment to me illustrates that Twitter is another useful tool in putting you as a blogger in front of readers and potential readers.
The other thing that I’ll say about branding and Twitter is that it can be used to expand your brand or to show a different side of you. Some of the people that I enjoy following the most on Twitter inject humor into their Twittering that I don’t see on their blogs. There’s also something a little more personal about many of the people I follow on Twitter (even if they Tweet on a ‘professional’ topic – their voice is often more personal than on their blogs).
Example – the wonderful thing about Twitter is that it’s actually others who brand you and not just you who does all the work. Look at the example above and you see that 30 people (it’s now up to 40) answered my question and each time they did they publicly used my blog’s name and linked to my Twitter account. Those 30 or 40 people are collectively being followed by thousands of others and by responding to my question they ’sneezed’ the ProBlogger virus out to them (incidentally I’ve had 15 new followers join up since posting that question just minutes ago).
3. Promote Content
The first thing that people usually ask me when I say that I’m on Twitter is ‘how much traffic does it drive back to your blogs?’ I’ve purposely held off on writing about Twitter as a means to drive traffic until this point in this post because I don’t see it as the main benefit of the tool. Having said that – it can potentially promote content and drive traffic.
I’ve been using a tool called TwitterFeed for the last four weeks (31 days to be exact) to take the headlines and URLs from my blog’s feeds and to publish them in my Twitter account. In that time I’ve seen just over 1350 visitors come from Twitter to Problogger after something like this appears in my Twitter feed each time I post:
That is not a massive amount considering I have over 1000 followers at the moment and considering that it’s .38% of the total traffic that the site has had in that time – however it’s not insignificant because I suspect that Twitter users are a fairly influential bunch of people and could potentially be spreading my URLs wider than just on Twitter (on their blogs etc).
Here’s how my traffic has grown since starting to use Twitter more seriously a month ago.
One surprising thing that I found when I started publishing my stories on Twitter was that some Twitter readers told me that they now read ProBlogger exclusively through Twitter – to the point that they didn’t check the feed any more. At first I was a little concerned by this – but then i realized that it was a good thing because those readers had found a way that fitted more with their own rhythm to read my content.
Twitter had become an alternative subscription method for them. Plus it actually caused these readers to read the blog on the blog rather just in their feed reader – creating increase page views/unique visitor counts.
4. Extend Audience – Find NEW Readers
One challenge that bloggers who’ve been around for a while in their niche can face is that they reach a saturation point. They sometimes feel like everyone who will hear about them has already heard about them and they can see a plateau in their stats. This often happens 6-12 months into a blog.
My encouragement to this type of blogger is to think about where potential readers might be gathering that they’re yet to tap into. I’ve found that this has happened for me with Twitter.
I’ve already touched on how this happens above in the ‘branding’ section – however a number of Twitter users have told me that they’ve just discovered my blogs through my Tweets (and the Tweets of others). There hasn’t been a flood of new readers from this – but my Google analytics says that 27% of of the visitors who have come to ProBlogger from Twitter are ‘new’ to my blogs. For me that’s about 15-20 new readers per day through Twitter – over a year that could definitely add up and those 5000 – 7000 new readers could have a significant impact upon a community.
5. Networking
Another obvious benefit of Twitter is the ability that it gives you to network on a different level with other bloggers, readers and ‘others’. I’ve lost count of the direct messages and group conversations that I’ve had with people that I’d never have ‘met’ any other way.
Already this has opened up some fascinating opportunities to work together on promoting each other’s content, sharing advice etc. It’s also opened up 3-4 opportunities for me to find new guest bloggers for my blogs.
One more thing on a networking front – I find it difficult to put this one into words, but there’s a certain camaraderie that develops when you read what someone’s written every hour or so throughout a day (and know that they’re doing the same with you). For me it’s something like that feeling that you get after spending a couple of days with someone at a conference – you know each other on a whole other level. Difficult to explain and I’m not sure I’ve quite put my finger on what this is (anyone able to say it better?).
6. Previews
Last week on a couple of occasions I released exclusive little previews to Twitter followers of information that I hadn’t yet posted on my blogs. I did this in two ways.
1. Once I posted news that I was yet to break on ProBlogger (I think it was about AdSense retiring their AdSense referral program). I did this because it was important news and I hadn’t yet had time to write up a post. I included in the Tweet that I’d post about it shortly – this created a little anticipation among followers (to the point where a few started direct messaging me asking when my post would go up).
2. The other time I shared a link to a post on ProBlogger that was yet to go live (ie I’d published it as an advance post at a time that was yet to happen – this created a page but no one would have known it was there). I did this as an experiment to see what would happen. The result was that when the post did go live on the blog on the front page it already had comments and a good discussion. I also found that three people had already linked to it. It also helped some readers to feel a little special to get a Twitter exclusive (in fact I’m publishing the link to this post on Twitter 3 hours before it actually goes live on the the blog).
There’s one more thing that I’d like to try in terms of combining this idea of ‘preview’ and the ‘research’ point mentioned above – and that’s to create a private post on my blog that I reveal only to Twitter followers and to then post a draft there of a post I’m working on to get feedback on before publishing it publicly. This would be an interesting exercise and explore the idea of a more communal writing of a post.
7.Speedlinking
One of the things that I’ve been doing lately instead of posting so many ‘Speedlinks’ here on ProBlogger is to share these links on Twitter. I’m doing this largely from Google Reader using a Firefox add-on created by Bob Lee. While Speedlinking is something that has worked reasonably well here on ProBlogger (in posts like this for example) I’m actually finding the medium of Twitter to be well suited to it also.
Note: – if you’re not into Twitter but still want to follow my speedlinks I’m posting alot of them in my Shared Items feed via Google Reader.
8. Story Gathering
A number of times this past week I’ve heard of breaking news in my niches via the Tweets of others. I would have heard of these stories via my news aggregator and the RSS feeds of others eventually – but due to the immediacy of Twitter I heard them just minutes after they broke.
This can be the difference between breaking a story to readers and being second or third at it.
9. Find Out What People REALLY Think
Another observation that I’ve made in the last couple of weeks while on Twitter is that people have a certain level of honesty and rawness on Twitter that they sometimes mask or hide on their blogs. I’m not sure why this is – but perhaps when confronted with saying something in 140 characters they have to strip away some of the disclaimers and politically correct language and just say what they mean.
The good thing about this is that it gives you a sense of what people are really thinking on a topic. This helps you to get to know them on a new level but also helps you keep your finger on the needs and feelings of your potential readers.
So they are some of the benefits that I’ve found of using Twitter. I’d be fascinated to hear how others have found it to be useful. Don’t forget to look out for tomorrow’s post with suggestions on how to improve your blogging with Twitter.
PS: I wrote this post over a number of days. Since starting it Maki at DoshDosh put together his 17 Ways You Can Use Twitter post which has some good suggestions too.
Update – Read my next post with tips on How to Use Twitter and also read some of my Twitter Follower’s tips on using Twitter.
143 Responses to “9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers” - Add Yours
Andreas Gohr
January 23rd, 2008 10:51 pm
Hehe, no comments, yet? Must be a Twitter preview :-)
Thanks for this post, Darren.
Incidently I just posted about controlling Twitter via commands sent from your favourite Twitter client, yesterday. Must be some twittering in the air ;-).
Ben
January 23rd, 2008 10:58 pm
I always thought that Twitter was more of a mobile phone thing. Guess I’ll have to do a little more research on it.
Thanks for the tips.
* Miss Universe
January 23rd, 2008 11:10 pm
///‘I used to read you at ProBlogger but had lost track until I found you on Twitter’
Well DUH! couldn’t he just Google your name or the blog name?!
Twitter is a good way of keeping in contact with established contacts – but for getting the attention of strangers, one still needs successful Search engine placement and Social bookmarking sites
How much success has being on the Technorati top 100 brought for introducing this blog to new prospects?
jsanderz
January 23rd, 2008 11:13 pm
Darren I really enjoyed reading this post, I have been debating wether or not to use Twitter and although I think it is a good idea, I am wondering if you will spend more time twittering than blogging.
What I am trying to say is, do you find it a distraction and that it takes up a lot of your time?
Regards.
Alex
January 23rd, 2008 11:16 pm
Insteresting as usual. One more thing to explore, but it sounds as though such exploration will be worthwhile.
Thanks for the writeup Darren.
Alex
Tejvan Pettinger
January 23rd, 2008 11:16 pm
Cheers, I’ll check it out. Never thought of twitter in this light
Joanna Young
January 23rd, 2008 11:22 pm
Darren, I enjoyed reading this. I’ve also been getting much more ‘into’ Twitter over the last couple of months and have found it enjoyable and rewarding.
I’m interested in the idea of ‘finding your voice’ on twitter because it can seem daunting at first… on the other hand I think it’s also a good way of warming up or flexing our writing muscles (and honing the art of brevity!)
Joanna
KevinD
January 23rd, 2008 11:29 pm
I think Networking on Twitter is different to other socnets (mine excluded) I liken twitter (and mine) to a global 24 hour pub (or cafe). You can discuss anything with anyone at anytime. Discussions are live, no comment moderation to wait for. Also, there are no moderators, people can speak their minds but somehow, do not spam, if they do, simply un-follow. Where else can I talk to Darren, Loic, Scobel etc along with my wife, mates and my community users, throw in the CTO of Microsoft at the same time it is incredible. Looking forward to talking on Skype soon ;-)
Darren Rowse
January 23rd, 2008 11:38 pm
Ben – me too, I didn’t get into it because when it first came out i had issues using it from my phone. But now I do it mainly via a Twitter client (like IM)
Miss Universe – actually that one was from a ’she’. Yes they could have Googled my name but they didn’t because I’d dropped off their radar. Twitter brought me back onto it.
In terms of getting the attention of strangers I disagree with you. I have many followers on Twitter that came across me for the first time there throughs eeing someone else Twitter a msg to me.
jsanderz – it could be a real distraction – in fact some bloggers have almost killed their blogs by getting into twitter. However I think in moderation it’s a useful tool to have in the toolbelt and to run along side a blog.
Leanne
January 23rd, 2008 11:43 pm
I’m not a big social networker, and I’ve found twitter to be an easier and more fun way of just blurting out a thought vs. making a special post for it. It’s like a private IM, only with the whole blogosphere, sortof.
Daniel Scocco
January 23rd, 2008 11:56 pm
I will have to disagree on this one. I won’t say that I wont change opinion in the future, but right now I just can’t see much value on micro blogging tools.
I think that the vast majority of your twitter followers are also blog readers (at least 90%), and this mere fact undermines many of the described points.
Sure it has its specific uses, for example the mobility factor can be important to some people.
Other than these very specific applications, though, I find that time spent on twitter is time subtracted from your blog, which is the core business for most of us.
Sam MacDonald
January 23rd, 2008 11:58 pm
Been only really using twitter the last week with Google Talk. I signed up on Jan 5th to see what all the hype was about. I’ve been working on moving more towards seeing if I can make a career out of blogging. I had you a few days ago and when I saw the oppurtunity to send my feed count last night I thought it was pretty cool. Here today I am featured in one of your posts. How cool is that. I’m the omacdon in the picture above. :)
BW
January 24th, 2008 12:04 am
Very intersting post.
Looking forward to your next twitter post.
Will have to take a much closer look at twitter to see if I can benefit from it. The only downside I can see is that I would not be able to twitter full time (due to full time job and only blogging when time permits).
But I do like the idea of using twitter to display new post titles. This seems like a very good use of twitter
Thanks
Guillermo
January 24th, 2008 12:09 am
Finally someone that can tell me what twitter is good for!!
Now… What is going on? Do they have an affiliate program in Twitter? Because I’ve seen lots of twitter posts everywhere for the last few days…!
Any thoughts?
Garg the Unzola
January 24th, 2008 12:31 am
Hey, another FREE networking tool.
I don’t think you could have too many.
I joined StumpleUpon 2 days ago and by yesterday it amounted to 50% of my traffic, for yesterday.
Twitter seems really useful. Good avice, as usual.
http://necrofiles.blogspot.com
Michael
January 24th, 2008 12:34 am
Networking on Twitter is very important, I personally have met a few people through Twitter that I would now consider to be a good friend that I’m sure would help me out with things if I needed it.
I also really love Twitter for getting a feel for what others think about a news item. This helps me tremendously while blogging.
Hersh Bhardwaj
January 24th, 2008 12:37 am
I read a similar post on Twitter by Maki earlier this week, together the two posts make a definitive source on Twitter. I am gonna follow all advice by the book.THx for the post
Guardian Angel
January 24th, 2008 12:44 am
Now I am glad to be one of the earliest commenters. Anyways, I never got interested on Twitter because I thought it was just like other social networking sites with useless talks. But now, I think I am going to check it. However, the above commenters are quite right, this will have a lesser time for our own blog. So, how about Squidoo or 9 Rules? I recently join them and still waiting for the effect. Thanks!
Frugal Dad
January 24th, 2008 12:47 am
Very insightful – I’ve been wondering what you meant by “twittering” when referencing in your posts. Now I know the rest of the story.
Tablebread
January 24th, 2008 12:48 am
It’s so wonderful that you wrote this article today. I just downloaded Twitter yesterday because I kept hearing what it would do for my blog. However, once I signed up and got going with GoogleTalk I was completely lost.
Thanks so much for guiding me in the right direction!
gyuszi bacsi
January 24th, 2008 12:50 am
let me tell you: all these things have nothing to do with the twitter question “what are you doing?”
so you use twitter, but not for that reason, it is made for
I also use twitter sometimes – in your way – but this is completely different from the founders goal, to tell your friend what exactly you are doing (:
Mark McGuinness
January 24th, 2008 12:55 am
I’ve been resisting Twitter for a while (I didn’t like the idea of even more digital interruptions) but so many people I know have been raving about it I’ve started to change my mind – very interesting to hear you give a blogging perspective on it – thanks!
Yoni Greenbaum
January 24th, 2008 12:58 am
Darren – One additional point worth mentioning about Twitter is that since it’s heavily crawled by Google, your Twitter page can help with page rank.
Bud
January 24th, 2008 1:11 am
I love twitter so much. I think its a great tool to help to network with people. I think it has really made an impact on helping me grow my blog.
Always thanks for posting that screen shot I am the 2nd from the bottom on the list I semi made it on problogger lol.
Bud
Sean McGoldrick
January 24th, 2008 1:11 am
Good points about Twitter. I used to log into Problogger on a regular basis along with a couple of other blogging for money blogs but I lost touch over the last month. It was only when I heard that Problogger was on Twitter a couple of days ago that I started reading it again.
Pete
January 24th, 2008 1:14 am
I think I should start subscribing to more feeds :)
Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing CONTROVERSY Blog
January 24th, 2008 1:15 am
Hey Darren,
I’m glad to see you’ve finally caught on…
There’s another great use that very few people comprehend right now but “find out what people really think” approached it… it’s DATA MINING – and I wrote an article on it a while back.
The link above goes to my Twitter articles label so you can have a look-see. It’s called,
“A Quick Jaunt Into Data Mining on Twitter”
Hope you enjoy it…
Good article..
Sam
Hamish M
January 24th, 2008 1:16 am
Great article Darren! (Nice to see my tweet to you in second place, hehe)
I only joined Twitter a few weeks ago. And it’s awesome, there’s a really great community around it. I only wish I had joined earlier. :)
Maki
January 24th, 2008 1:23 am
Thanks for mentioning my article, Darren.
Great post on Twitter as well. The Treader greasemonkey script is fantastic! I wasn’t aware of it until today. :)
@ Daniel… the benefits of Twitter can be explained only in so many ways. I was an early adopter but a real cynic and left my account dormant for a long time.
Once you start using Twitter intelligently and actively for some time, you’ll come to see how useful it is as a tool. It’s one of the platforms you’ll only appreciate after active engagement. Darren’s upcoming post on how to use Twitter will be helpful. :)
amypalko
January 24th, 2008 1:32 am
After much resistance to the whole concept of microblogging, I finally joined twitter a couple of days ago. I’m not regretting it so far, and am actually really enthused about the possibilities it could yield. Yet another example of a service which has the potential to change the way we interact. Exciting times ahead, I think!
Rebellious Arab Girl
January 24th, 2008 1:45 am
Twitter is amazing. It has a lot of great features. I don’t use it every hour of the day like others do, but I find it a great way to just read a one liner of someone’s opinion or latest news event. Also, it is the best way, quicker than an RSS feed to know that someone just posted a blog post.
I use mobile sometimes, very simple to sent a twitter on sms. I don’t follow people on my mobile because I follow too many people and I don’t want to keep up with it and get an SMS every second.
So I have windows vista, and I have two screens. On my second screen I have my widgets, and one of those is my Twadget widget for twitter. It is there live for me to look at. I can easily click a link that someone posted in an instance. I find such tools great. There is also a Facebook applications that updates your status message instantly. However, I removed it because I found that it doesn’t update as often. It has a lot of bugs. Twitter still has a lot of bugs and uptime problems, but the creators should have realized that there are far too many people using it now all over the world, and it will suck up a lot of bandwith.
I also had twitter tools wordpress plugin on my blog for the longest time, but I removed it a few days ago. I might put it back up when I do my spring cleaning and new website design.
Anyways, for your amusement Darren, and if you have not seen this yet, check out http://www.twittervision.com :D
It is quite amusing I swear!
Salut! :)
marcel weiss
January 24th, 2008 1:58 am
“I find it difficult to put this one into words, but there’s a certain camaraderie that develops when you read what someone’s written every hour or so throughout a day”
that is so true.
twitter is also perfect for networking in a small niche and getting to know all these other people. for example here in germany the blogosphere is pretty small, and it get’s even smaller then you’re writing only in a certain niche, and funnily almost all bigger bloggers are on twitter. it’s so easy to get to know each other there. easier than just with blogs, that’s for sure.
oh and my very own definition of twitter: it’s the watercooler of the web. for better and worse.
Bansi Patel
January 24th, 2008 2:14 am
Great post! Found it through Dosh Dosh’s tweet a few minutes ago :)
Case Stevens
January 24th, 2008 2:45 am
Hi Darren,
I really enjoyed reading this post. Like you, and so many others so to see, I’m still exploring Twitter and your informal way of listing options was of great value.
As was Maki’s 17 points list.
Thanks,
Case
Sangesh
January 24th, 2008 2:54 am
This sounds quite interesting… I think I will also try out twitter as well.
Cheers.
Barry Welford
January 24th, 2008 2:54 am
In addition I find Twitter is like a river of consciousness flowing past my window. Occasionally I’ll ‘look out’ and find inspiration in something that someone has said. If you’re following interesting people, it’s amazing what you see.
Jeremy Killian
January 24th, 2008 3:00 am
Twitter is one of those ideas that I wish I had had. Such a simple concept, and yet I’m sure they’ll see Facebook sized traffic very soon.
gamermk
January 24th, 2008 3:16 am
Beyond the obvious SEO and “Make Money Online” Blogs have any other Niches widely adopted the use of twitter?
Adam
January 24th, 2008 3:18 am
Useful posts. Have been using Twitter for quite sometime now. Just signed up with Twitterfeed. Thanks for the info.
DJ
January 24th, 2008 3:27 am
What is the best way to meet people and get followers on twitter?
Debby
January 24th, 2008 3:35 am
I found Twitter to be very useful when I attended Blog Orlando. Josh Hallett, the coordinator of Blog Orlando, set up a “Blog Orlando” group on Twitter.
During the “un-conference” as Josh calls it, we could Twitter back and forth to each other. If we had a question about a session or couldn’t find something, we could send out a Tweed and get an answer.
During the opening session, Josh sent out a Tweed saying the first person to show him the Tweed wins a free ipod.
It was a good was to utilize Twitter that just about everyone could access either by phone or laptop at the un-conference.
Alex
January 24th, 2008 3:52 am
Thanks to Darren’s article I have signed up with Twitter and have placed a Twitter flash widget thingy on my blog!
I shall be interested to see what happens….
Zach
January 24th, 2008 4:18 am
As a counterpoint to #3, I don’t follow people who use twitterfeed. For example, I don’t follow @laughingsquid, who I would otherwise follow. The reason is that I receive tweets on my phone, but I read feeds in my feed reader. I don’t want an sms for the exact same thing I’ll get in my feed reader. It’s also more likely that the sms will come at a time when it’s inconvenient for me to read the feed.
I think the users that like to follow twitter instead of using the rss feed are those who are using twitter via the webpage. For those of us who don’t want these tweets we have no choice but to not follow people who use twitterfeed.
jhay
January 24th, 2008 4:20 am
That’s it, I’m going to Twitter a lot more from now on. :D
Idea Lady
January 24th, 2008 4:34 am
I placed a link to my Twitter page on my blog. Right now I only have Twitter and Facebook, but I expect to add more social media under the heading “Connect with Cathy.”
I figure my fans can never get too much of me. ;o)
arham
January 24th, 2008 4:38 am
nice review for tools,btw “5. Networking” is that mean, I Can boosting my traffic :-)
Robin Jacob Abraham
January 24th, 2008 4:47 am
Nice post Problogger…I dont kind of agree with the first point though…I guess those answers came because your involvement in that community was already high even before you joined Twitter or you have spent some time on Twitter already and have created visibility for yourself….For a newbie looking at instant answers it could come as a disappointment if he doesnt get the answers instantly
BarbaraKB
January 24th, 2008 4:58 am
Who has time to read blog feeds? Twitter is my human-edited feed. Who has time to comment at blogs? I just comment @ them at Twitter! Microblogging sites like Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce are the end of blogging as we know it today.
BarbaraKB
January 24th, 2008 5:00 am
Who has time to read blog feeds? Twitter is my human-edited feed. Who has time to comment at blogs? I just comment by @name (just like Darren shows here) at Twitter! Microblogging sites like Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce are the end of blogging as we know it today. These sites are changing blogging for the good. Now, audio and video… that’s what’s new and exciting for the every day consumer. And it should be for serious bloggers.
Chris Jacobson
January 24th, 2008 5:07 am
I always thought Twitter was something iJustine made up for fun. I’ll have to look closer at it. ;)
Taoski
January 24th, 2008 5:08 am
Twitter never really “clicked” for me.
It was a bit like shouting my mind in a room of 100,000 people all doing the same thing at the same time.
My Tweets quickly get buried in the landslide..
Might give it another go though!
Alex
January 24th, 2008 5:29 am
Taoski,
This is why I put the Twitter thing on my blog – if people like what you say, then they may listen out for you when you shout.
Of course, Darren already has plenty of listeners, so his tweets are well followed.
If and when you do become a noted twitterer, you could use the system as a way of announcing ‘blog scoops’ or other potentially interestng posts, but, big but, if you cry wolf too often, people won’t even bother listening out for your shouts.
To me, Twitter looks a little like a sort of ‘press release for blogs’ system, or at least it could be used in that way. But I guess that, in the end, readers will decide whether Twitter ‘does it for them’ or they are happy with good old RSS.
Whatever, I shall twddle with Twitter and see what it achieves.
Pensacola Real Estate News
January 24th, 2008 5:30 am
Twitter is very new to me. This post will help me get a general feel for it. I’ll check it out and see how it goes. You’ve done a great job of outlining the benefits. There is so much out there, it is good to have some basic summaries like you provide. Thanks.
Noelle
January 24th, 2008 5:37 am
Twitter has become my favorite website!! Love it!!
alanj878
January 24th, 2008 5:43 am
hank you very much I never knew how to use twitter for blogging before Now it can be a very important social media site to show the world my blog http://livelymoney.blogspot.com.
HDTV reviews
January 24th, 2008 5:54 am
Nice info there, I’ve been to twitter maybe once a year ago and didn’t find it to interesting, but now… :)
Ross Dunn
January 24th, 2008 6:05 am
Hey Darren, awesome article. I am also finding Twitter very interesting. In fact, I posted an article discussing the interesting Tweets during the San Francisco storm http://tinyurl.com/26qzpm. Anyway, I am now following you and look forward to more top notch writing.
Cheers, Ross
Bob Angus
January 24th, 2008 6:26 am
Much like Taoski I felt like I was in a cacophony of noise, especially if all I was trying to do was promote content (#3). Same thing can be said for almost any social networking and bookmarking service.
However, I as soon as I stopped trying to be Darren and started communicating 1-on-1 with my network of contacts, the usefulness of Twitter exploded. I could use it to connect and provide value to my business relationships… not just broadcasting my whimsical drivel.
The added benefit of Twitter that I like is the mobility. I can get updates on my cell phone, not just when I am at my computer.
1 Little Thing
January 24th, 2008 7:04 am
I’ve just started using twitter and still trying to figure it all out. Thank you for this post, it inspired me to really try to play with Twitter more.
Omar Yesid Mariño
January 24th, 2008 7:08 am
I had signed up on Twitter but I have not used it so much… Now, when you published your thoughts about this tool, I feel the necessity of experimenting. Surely it will be more useful for bloggers when more and more common people sign up on Twitter, because nowadays I guess that most Twitter members are techies and geeks.
Ruchir
January 24th, 2008 7:26 am
Well for you it was easy to make an influential twitter profile, due to the influence of your blogs. But I think those benefits will take much time to show for the average blogger. I’m still not going to join Twitter yet. I just follow people to get quick news but that’s it…
mf
January 24th, 2008 8:34 am
Darren, don’t know how long you are using twitter but on the long run it will temper your blogging activity and therefore your direct income.
Kay @ Don't Mess With Taxes
January 24th, 2008 8:42 am
Very good comments. I, too, am trying to become a better Twitterer … tweet … whatever! And I’m still experimenting with the ways to use it and make my comments valuable to others. Thanks for the good suggestions/insights.
Lisa Angelettie
January 24th, 2008 10:04 am
This post really explains things well. As usual Darren, you provide us with the “social proof” of whether something is worth trying. Now that I’ve read this, I plan on adding Twitter to my very short list of social media that I am committing to:)
Jim Goldstein
January 24th, 2008 10:11 am
Great write up. These are exactly all the benefits I’ve seen from using Twitter since last year. I’d have to say that gaining access to relevant information quicker is the big benefit I get from Twitter. Whether I’m working on web strategy work or photography (what I’m most passionate about) I can access great information in seconds. The stream of content and updates is invaluable to my day to day work.
I look forward to getting your Twitter updates
http://twitter.com/jimgoldstein
Beth Kanter
January 24th, 2008 10:47 am
Darren:
Twitter has been helpful in the fundraising campaign for Cambodian Children that you helped me with by writing a post back in December.
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2008/01/calling-on-the.html
BTW, thanks to your generous help — we’re in the running for the big prize – with about 9 days more to go until the contest ends.
Beth
Anthony Lawrence
January 24th, 2008 11:23 am
I have to say that I’m amazed by how many people you “follow” – and apparently you really do.. even more amazing as I assumed that you “followed” to be polite but in actuality use some filtering software to strip away 99% of it..
I don’t know how you do it.. I follow about 15 people and can’t keep up with that sometimes.. you follow over 800? Amazing..
Simple Mindz
January 24th, 2008 1:04 pm
This was an awesome post. Thank you for sharing it!
Bruce
January 24th, 2008 1:15 pm
Thanks, Darren.
Very thorough and informative, as usual.
I’m onto checking out Twitter and Twitterfeed right away.
Dr.Mani
January 24th, 2008 2:20 pm
These days I read Problogger after seeing you tweet about your latest updates – and only those stories that interest me. Yes, Problogger is in my feed reader, but that gets viewed less frequently. Twitter is a part of my morning online routine.
And yes, you can get guest bloggers for your blog on Twitter. Without seeing you on Twitter, I doubt if I’d have approached you to write “Lessons for Bloggers From The ‘Death of 2007′”
As for how I use Twitter, I’ve often called it the ‘virtual coffee room’ – a place to relax, unwind, chew the fat, catch up with news and gossip, and explore/extend contacts and network. Guess I’m just afraid that if I convince myself it helps with ‘work’, I’ll spend even longer there than I already do!
Nice post, thanks Darren. You really have made great use of Twitter in a short period!
All success
Dr.Mani
Manish
January 24th, 2008 2:34 pm
I started my twitter account about 2 months back but did not bother to use it as I could find any real benefit. But now I am prompted to check it out thoroughly and make use of this new medium.
Thanks,
Manish
Eric Herberholz
January 24th, 2008 3:02 pm
Any thoughts yet about jaiku?
Personally, I am posting to both twitter and jaiku simultaneously with TwitKu (http://www.twitku.com/)
I agree that twitter can, at the very least, be used to attract people to your blog. Towards that, I’ve been posting to my blog, and then immediately posting to twitter and Jaiku, about my blog post.
mousewords
January 24th, 2008 3:17 pm
Lots of great points! I just found Twitter 3 months ago–and I’m seeing the same process you mention. I’ve definitely seen an increase in traffic to my blog, plus I’m being tagged with bookmarking sites–whereas before I wasn’t.
I also noticed the camaraderie you mentioned–for me, since I work from home, it gives me the sense of having an “office” dynamic–makes me realize that others are involved in their workday, too, sharing ideas and energy. It keeps me from feeling alone, and inspires me to plug away harder at what I do, to keep up with others. :-);-)
One of the best benefits of Twitter, for me, has been discovering the voices of so many intelligent people. I’m literally learning something new every day. Like on this blog! :-);-)
Dee Copeland
January 24th, 2008 4:48 pm
So I’m digging Twitter. I thought it was strange and 1st, but it’s cool learning what people are reading, doing, going to, etc. It’s actually kind of addictive.
Besides real estate blogging tricks, I’ve learned about cool albums and movies via Twitter. Not sure how useful it is, but I really get to know someone by the “tweets” or…whatever it’s called.
Dee Copeland
January 24th, 2008 4:48 pm
So I’m digging Twitter. I thought it was strange at 1st, but it’s cool learning what people are reading, doing, going to, etc. It’s actually kind of addictive.
Besides real estate blogging tricks, I’ve learned about cool albums and movies via Twitter. Not sure how useful it is, but I really get to know someone by the “tweets” or…whatever it’s called.
Bohemian
January 25th, 2008 3:01 am
I didn’t like twitter too!! But from now on i will give it a try!
Rhett
January 25th, 2008 8:27 am
I picked twitter up many months ago and used it for 2 days, then lost interest. Might be worth a re-look. I’d be interested on you thoughts about tumblr.com Darren?
Paul
January 25th, 2008 9:22 am
Thank-You for the post! Twitter will help me inprove an allready great sight. Thanks!
http:www.ptlblog.com
Neil Duckett
January 25th, 2008 1:11 pm
Twitterfeed, the single most frustrating ‘create account’ procedure i hve endured. I have followed the process, i have an Open ID …. the pain of Twitterfeed has made me bin it for ever!!!
Alex
January 25th, 2008 5:25 pm
Not completely sure what author stated above, I tryed to find any useful thing about twitter as to increase my traffic, but found nothing I don’t know for whom they did such a social network, where I have to think what and how to do. It’s one of the poor social networks I discovered. IMHO
Spuds
January 25th, 2008 6:18 pm
Very good article. I love twitter.
shannon
January 26th, 2008 3:27 pm
Okay, so I was referred here, as I have read Naked Conversations and other latest publishings about how to market today. But I was specifically wondering if I was blogging right. So I am studying links like this. But at first previews, I’m so confussed already. I don’t even know what a twitter is :(. Anyways, if anyone has any comments about my blog, please send them. Another photographer criticized my last blog. But in my understanding of what a blog is, I’m one of the few photographers in my area that uses it correctly- to show people who I really am vs. what they want to market… anyways, I’ll keep trying to understand this site and others… And let me know if there is a better place for such a question. Thanks for any help you can give.
curly@csat.binc.net
January 27th, 2008 12:11 pm
Twitter rocks
Alison Moore Smith
January 27th, 2008 5:09 pm
Now, why did you have to go and convince me to get involved in yet ANOTHER technology bit?
Nag
January 27th, 2008 10:50 pm
As said , Twitter will be useful for every blogger and it is a must-have-arm for each successful blogger
Get Most Out Of (GMOO)
Flora Morris Brown, Ph.D.
January 28th, 2008 6:57 am
I didn’t know much about Twitter,and until now thought it had no benefit for me. Your post makes me realize I must get on board. Thanks.
Emma
January 30th, 2008 12:57 am
Like quite a few others who’ve posted here, I’ve not really got into Twitter. Perhaps I ought!
I could very much relate to Ben’s comment:
“I always thought that Twitter was more of a mobile phone thing. Guess I’ll have to do a little more research on it.”
I’d also thought that & as I use my mobile the bare minimum; it’s off most of the time, I couldn’t quite see the need to use Twitter. Maybe it’s time to reconsider.
David Jacques-Louis
February 25th, 2008 6:03 pm
Wow. I never knew the power of twitter.
josephgelb
March 29th, 2008 12:14 pm
thankyou for the info it is really helpful
Sheamus
April 8th, 2008 1:21 pm
I’ve only recently signed up for Twitter and while I found Darren’s post useful, I still feel a bit ‘in limbo’ over the experience, not knowing quite how to use it effectively as of yet.
It’ll come, it’ll come. :) Like most things, I think it’s definitely of more use if you’re established with a large group of followers! Otherwise, it can feel a bit like sending SMS messages out to random numbers.
joe2
April 9th, 2008 11:48 pm
This was an awesome post. Thank you for sharing it!
GP
May 9th, 2008 12:03 am
Hi Darren – Good stuff. I wanted to learn about Twitter and now I have 3 more things to check out – Sphinn, Adsense and StumbleUpon.
dave allen
May 23rd, 2008 7:06 am
i am using twitter quite a lot and i am getting lots of useful information — however is there anyway that i can tag tweets and move them to a blog? — a reversal of promoting your blog via twitter
Jim Legington
June 6th, 2008 2:41 am
Great post Darren,
Love seeing when You have just added a New Post at
ProBlogger from Twitter. That’s another Champion Business
Builders Content Treasure, 9 Benefits of Using Twitter
according to Darren Rowse. Great stuff.
You know the point You made about people being very
able and sharing about the blessings of content is very unique I think coming from that 140 Characters per Tweet. Users are blessed to learn to say a Champions Plate in a few
words. That is one additional sure blessing and hidden Benefit of Twitter. Have a Great Day Everyone.
Keith
June 6th, 2008 3:18 am
Glad I finally found this. I have been struggling with my twitter content. I really wanted to use it more then telling people i was having my 3rd slice of pizza
John
June 18th, 2008 10:27 pm
thank you for the info it is really very helpful…
Kevin
July 2nd, 2008 5:38 am
Wow….I think the real question is this, “How do people have so much time to read through 30+ RSS Feeds let alone 100+. Seriously.
I read this article to try to figure out the real benefit of “twittering” and unless you have a lot of friends who also use “Twitter”, what’s the point?
It seems the real benefit of using it is if you have an online presence, and most of my friends do not. Do I really care what my friend Mike is eating for breakfast, or what Stacy is wearing to work, or that Jason just rolled a strike at the bowling alley?
I think any efforts in trying to convince my “non blogging” friends will be futile.
Eric Herberholz
July 2nd, 2008 8:39 am
I use Twitter for fun, for “hearing” of new cool things that people post about, and intend to use it for Marketing. Along with a few other microblogs, like Plurk and Jaiku. For massive postings, to more than one microblog, I often use Ping.fm
Eric Herberholz
July 2nd, 2008 8:41 am
Oh, by the way, if you are interested in microblogging, come join us at the ‘microblogging’ Google Group http://groups.google.com/group/microblogging
Lenin Nair
July 5th, 2008 2:49 am
Wow Darren,
This post is such an inspiration to me that I also now started using twitter more professionally. Your first part of asking a question and getting so many answers and followers thereby is the most important aspect of twitter I believe. I will tweet this post through my twitter account . Let me remind you that I am already following you there
Lenin
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kidkiller
July 14th, 2008 1:28 am
thanks Darren ! I’m trying Twitter now, see if there any improvement on my traffic ^^
Aru
July 29th, 2008 7:43 pm
Thanks for sharing the information on how to use twitter for increased benefits for blogging.
http://www.simplewayoflife.net
Bobby Rio
August 30th, 2008 2:47 pm
Just discovered the wonderful world of twitter…
This post further clarifed some other interesting uses for it. I agree its not going to bring thousands of new visitors to your sight… but it gets your name out there one twitter at a time..
plus it can be pretty fun.
Nils Davis
September 3rd, 2008 5:23 am
I’m going to try a lot of the things you suggest in this post and the followup. I wish I had a good written sense of humor, since you mention “Some of the people that I enjoy following the most on Twitter inject humor into their Twittering that I don’t see on their blogs.” I’ll try to be a bit lighter in both places – Twitter *and* the blog :-)
JR Griggs
September 29th, 2008 11:56 pm
I started using Twitter due to this post and I’m loving it so far. I also found a nice plugin for wordpress called mytwitter which will display your tweets as a widget.
Thaddeus Hairston
October 8th, 2008 2:29 pm
Great information to share! I have just started using Twitter for about a few weeks now and have found that I can link it up with my mybloglog.com account and my squidoo lens. I will have to go back over all this information that you listed here to truly reap the benefits of having a Twitter account…Thanks again!
Irene Houston
October 12th, 2008 7:47 pm
Thanks Darren , it’s a lot clearer to now how I can use Twitter in my online business. :o)
php dersleri
October 17th, 2008 5:37 pm
Darren – One additional point worth mentioning about Twitter is that since it’s heavily crawled by Google, your Twitter page can help with page rank.
Darren Rowse
October 17th, 2008 7:02 pm
php dersleri – last time I checked Twitter links were all nofollowed…. not sure it passes on any page rank
mike donovin
October 24th, 2008 8:04 am
still not sure how to totally get this tool…and how i can get more traffic out of it…
Jen @ 123bargains.com
November 19th, 2008 10:32 am
Thanks for the great post. I’ve started using Twitter a few weeks ago and have been very surprised with the results.
ssovit
November 23rd, 2008 11:37 pm
Thanks Darren, I am very much inspired with your blog and your blogging tips updated always. I got into twitter when I read this post and I found it great which drive me more traffic with it. visit my blog and you ll be surprised to see how much I am crazy about your blog.
Shawn L
November 25th, 2008 3:57 pm
Darren,
I had heard about twitter but no used it until I read an article online in CNN Money about Twitter as one of the tools one should learn.
I am still a newbie to it but your article here has provided several opportunities for me. I will likely try at least five of your suggestions and see how it work for me. Thanks!
Trevor Ellestad
December 11th, 2008 3:32 pm
Thanks for the Twitter motivation. It has been something of a confusing medium before reading this. I’ll give her a shot.
Glenn Seymour
December 11th, 2008 11:57 pm
Such an appropriate topic. One of your better post.
I began using Tweetbeep just 4 weeks ago to identify and follow Twitters that were using certain key words. I am a newbie blogger, but this alone is serving to add 3 to 5 new followers per day.
I have identified certain key words for niches that I am researching. Tremendous and quick market research tool.
Kind Regards
Glenn Seymour
Marion TD Lewis
December 13th, 2008 11:08 pm
This is a truckload of information that will take me days to digest. It is mindboggling the amount of information that is out there and how serious a medium blogging has become. I am still very much in the infancy of my blogging career even though I write nine different blogs. I frankly don’t understand Twitter. I have an account, and I “tweet” (at least I think I am tweeting but who knows?) but do I get what the purpose is? Nah.
About RSS. I don’t get that either. Someone told me to stay away from putting RSS on my blog since it potentially could result in my site being linked up with other sites that are unpalatable (such as those that cater to the “prurient interest.” But I notice that almost universally, pro bloggers advocate RSS? What gives?
What I like about your blog is the meaningful comments and feeback you get. How do I encourage that on my blogs, especially on my main blog, Divorce Saloon? I mean, first I guess I need an audience but after that, what?
By Marion TD Lewis, Blogger
http://www.divorcesaloon.com
Jennifer
December 18th, 2008 4:03 am
All your points are great and valid! I use twitter to drive traffic, not only to my blog, but to my clients and fellow followers sites. Social Media is all about engaging and if someone watchs my posts and I them … I always want to help them promote their “items”.
Twitter also helps me get ideas … i write reviews of interesting and different products, etc. So, when I get stumped… I put out a tweet for an item/site/business to review. I love it! Thx for the post!
Archna Sajwan
December 19th, 2008 5:32 pm
I personally feel twitter is one of the best way which really helps you to promote, branding and help in business networking.
Thanks for the valuable post.
Archna Sajwan
http://www.ecommind.com
Umer Hayat
January 18th, 2009 1:53 am
hello Darren,
First of all, I’m really impressed with you.
As You, Yaro and Ewin Chia and some others are my ideal in this blogging field… I really want to be like you people.. and I’ll … that’s my MOTO. :)
Well, as far as post is concern… it is nice like always… and now I’m going to use TWITTER on my first time.
Hopefully It will work for me as well.. :)
thanks
Eskil
January 29th, 2009 10:20 pm
Thank you for sharing your experiences with Twitter. I am really interested in getting started but fears that it may eat all my precious time.
luis
February 1st, 2009 1:38 am
Great write up. These are exactly all the benefits I’ve seen from using Twitter since last year. I’d have to say that gaining access to relevant information quicker is the big benefit I get from Twitter. Whether I’m working on web strategy work or photography (what I’m most passionate about) I can access great information in seconds. The stream of content and updates is invaluable to my day to day work.
I look forward to getting your Twitter updates
http://twitter.com/lant2005
thank Daren
Jag
February 2nd, 2009 10:41 pm
Great i will also love to pull traffic like this :). Thanks for the research post. Will keep wathcing this blog
George
February 8th, 2009 12:15 am
Great tips on twitter, me personally still do not how to promote using it, but learning slowly
tuba büyüküstün
February 8th, 2009 3:22 am
I personally feel twitter is one of the best way which really helps you to promote, branding and help in business networking.
krish
February 25th, 2009 11:39 pm
wow…so many benefits…i only thought its like random talking for your friens…an kind of mobile integration…but wont readers be pissed if i start linking my blog each time?
May be with restraint…..
krish
February 26th, 2009 4:05 pm
I was not too aware about this twitter thing until i found this piece. Nice inspiring one to get me addicted to it
Oops I forgot to mention my teweetbox. Guys I Look forward to getting your updates here
http://twitter.com/krishbhatt
marc
March 21st, 2009 4:27 am
Glad you found a use for twitter, but I still don’t get what all the commotion is about. We’ve become an A.D.D. society where we need our posts to be smaller so someone invented blogging with a 140 character limit, no thanks.
Alvin
April 1st, 2009 2:39 pm
I still cannot get enough follower, hope this will help! Cheers!
Gabriel
April 6th, 2009 6:04 am
Twitter is getting massive right now. I wonder how its stock is rising because of posts like this? Oh boy, them twitter guys are sure gonna make a lotta of money.
Mehmet
April 6th, 2009 6:17 pm
Thank you for this post, it inspired me to really try to play with Twitter more.
Dave
April 23rd, 2009 3:51 am
This is a great article and I couldn’t agree with you more on the benefits of Twitter. However, I don’t think marketing via Twitter is being maximized to its fullest potential. What do you think? Check out my blog at http://blog.biznetis.net/
-Dave
Medyum
April 25th, 2009 5:45 pm
hello Darren,
First of all, I’m really impressed with you.
As You, Yaro and Ewin Chia and some others are my ideal in this blogging field… I really want to be like you people.. and I’ll … that’s my MOTO. :)
Well, as far as post is concern… it is nice like always… and now I’m going to use TWITTER on my first time.
Hopefully It will work for me as well.. :)
thanks
Mersinli Medyum
April 25th, 2009 5:46 pm
wow…so many benefits…i only thought its like random talking for your friens…an kind of mobile integration…but wont readers be pissed if i start linking my blog each time?
May be with restraint…..
Duplicate File Finder
May 3rd, 2009 12:41 am
Thank you for this post, it inspired me to really try to play with Twitter more.
medyum
May 20th, 2009 5:29 am
I also noticed the camaraderie you mentioned–for me, since I work from home, it gives me the sense of having an “office” dynamic–makes me realize that others are involved in their workday, too, sharing ideas and energy. It keeps me from feeling alone, and inspires me to plug away harder at what I do, to keep up with others. :-);-)
One of the best benefits of Twitter, for me, has been discovering the voices of so many intelligent people. I’m literally learning something new every day. Like on this blog!
medyum
May 20th, 2009 5:40 am
This is a truckload of information that will take me days to digest. It is mindboggling the amount of information that is out there and how serious a medium blogging has become. I am still very much in the infancy of my blogging career even though I write nine different blogs. I frankly don’t understand Twitter. I have an account, and I “tweet” (at least I think I am tweeting but who knows?) but do I get what the purpose is? Nah.
Web Designer
June 3rd, 2009 12:42 am
Twitter is great. I got into Twitter in mid last year. At first things were slow as I didn’t know what To do with it. However as time has progressed and my follower list grown, I have begun to see the potential. Being on Twitter is simply not enough though. Its what we do with it. Surely its a great tool. However due to recent popularity many users have jumped on to the band wagon without having any strategy. It is important to devise a strategy from the start. This was you will be able to maximise what you can achieve with it.
çocuk oyunları
June 12th, 2009 6:53 pm
This is a truckload of information that will take me days to digest. It is mindboggling the amount of information that is out there and how serious a medium blogging has become. I am still very much in the infancy of my blogging career even though I write nine different blogs. I frankly don’t understand Twitter. I have an account, and I “tweet” (at least I think I am tweeting but who knows?) but do I get what the purpose is? Nah.
Bağlama Büyüsü
June 13th, 2009 7:29 pm
This is a truckload of information that will take me days to digest. It is mindboggling the amount of information that is out there and how serious a medium blogging has become
arka sokaklar
June 15th, 2009 8:31 pm
This is a truckload of information that will take me days to digest. It is mindboggling the amount of information that is out there and how serious a medium blogging has become. I am still very much in the infancy of my blogging career even though I write nine different blogs. I frankly don’t understand Twitter. I have an account, and I “tweet” (at least I think I am tweeting but who knows?) but do I get what the purpose is? Nah.
türkçe klipler
June 23rd, 2009 2:42 am
This is a truckload of information that will take me days to digest. It is mindboggling the amount of information that is out there and how serious a medium blogging has become. I am still very much in the infancy of my blogging career even though I write nine different blogs. I frankly don’t understand Twitter. I have an account, and I “tweet” (at least I think I am tweeting but who knows?) but do I get what the purpose is? Nah.
mark
June 23rd, 2009 10:49 pm
i’m still not sure about twitter. How do people find your twitter and sign up? Let’s say I have a blog and want to use twitter to promote it. Do random people just find my tweets and decide to go check out my blog, or do only people who know me sign up like facebook?
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