How to use Twitter Effectively

It’s been proven that twitter can be easily used as a self-promotion tool, to promote your content,  products and services. With the simple concept of broadcasting your message in 140 words, although short, to your followers. Twitter message often called tweets is broadcasted in “real time” to your reader. So, It’s a combination of blogging, RSS and social networking that makes twitter the top 50 Websites By Alexa.

Ways in which you can use twitter

1. Traffic: If its used properly, it can bring a lot of traffic to your site, In terms of quality, most of the visitors that come from twitter are targeted, that stick around, read your blogs and even subscribe to them.
2. Branding: Twitter can be used as a very powerful tool to build your brand. The good thing about it is its a lot more personal, because of IM enviroment, which helps in narrowing the line between you and your readers.
3. Latest News: Twitter is so spontaneous and instantaneous, it helps you in getting the latest industry news and activities in a particular area that you’re following, within few minutes of the actual event. If you think RSS feeds are good way to get the latest news and content, then try twitter.
4. Let Other Know What you are upto: Live Status updates comes handy when you want to address people and ask for opinions.
5. Networking: You can build future relationships with other people. Twitter is a great way to know the people working around you and that relates to your buisiness.
6. It’s fast: It takes only a minute to create a status, you are not writting an essay in 140 words right? . Twitter is easily integrated with mobile phones and you can update your status from anywhere.
7. It’s viral: Anything that spreads quickly and easily across a community makes a great social service anytime. Twitter works virally in a word of mouth kinda way. You may twit about something important, your followers may take the story to their followers by retweeting and so on.
8. It’s entertaining!: It’s that kind of fun you find in a social networking sites like digg or delicious and twitter has plenty of it. I love reading tweets and link posted by other users.