3 Steps to Maximize Your 140 Characters on Twitter

by S Ahsan · View Comments

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Know your Twitter Limits

When you are twittering at first, you might have no idea what is going on. Although, twitter seems easy, a lot of newbie don’t understand how it works. Twitter is an elite micro-blogging platform where you can write anything in 140 characters or less. Many of you may think that it is difficult to say or write something which is of 140 characters or less but believe me, you can do a lot with it. Twitter is one of the top and most reputable social networking and marketing tool because of the valuable and potential followers who could listen to whatever you have to say.

A lot of people take twitter for granted and use it for spamming with their affiliate links. If you are doing this then please stop it right away because this system will never work. Provide value to your followers and review services and products for them; this can eventually make you money.

An interesting fact is that a lot of people are making money off twitter by selling stuffs to people who have no idea about it because they are simply participating in a discussion which lead them to buying a product online. Now, there is nothing wrong by making money from your followers. For example, if someone wants to start blogging and is looking for a good hosting, he or she will go online and try to find reviews of several hosting before deciding on which one to purchase. The person might also get in a hosting discussion on twitter. If you can review a hosting and give this person the best deal, he or she will end up buying it and thus make you money. You are not cheating anyone here but providing a valuable review and making money with the hosting affiliate program while the person pays the same hosting fees or less. Now, that’s a good deal.

If you really want to make some money online and think that you do not have enough time for a social media tool with 140 characters or less, you are simply leaving a lot of money on the table.

Follow and Be Followed

Twitter works best when you follow someone you are interested to connect with or learn from. First thing first, you should get a good custom twitter background created. Backgrounds are really important because they make the profile look good. Then, you must setup your bio and your picture. Make sure you are creative so that your bio attracts other like-minded followers. Most of the time when you follow someone, he or she follows you back. This is a great way to increase your followers count and learn from each other. Unless you are a celeb or someone famous, you can’t expect people to just follow you. Following and being followed is a good strategy in this case. Make sure you converse with your followers and keep them in the loop.

Now you don’t have to follow every single person in the twitterverse because lately, twitter spam has been going on so you should be a little careful when deciding whom to follow or not because spammers get ignored right away.

Advantages from Twitter Tools

Twitter is so simple that when I find out about it, it seemed to me just like a facebook status thing. All you do is just update your status all the time. But, just because twitter is so simple, there are a lot of twitter tools that have been created to enhance twitter experience.

I have compiled a few lists on twitter tools;

Most of the twitter tools have varying features and benefits that can help you maximize the earning potential on this social networking giant.

Reciprocity is the Key to Success

You need to be positive and provide value in order to gain benefits from it. When you find your tweple or a twitter group to follow, you should be prepared to communicate with them and provide value. You should prove yourself to others and give them a valid reason to follow you.

Once you establish yourself on twitter, people will be interested to check out your stuffs, links and what you have to say. Always remember, you get treated the same way you treat others and this rule is applied in the twitterverse.

I hope twitter works out very well for you; now go and tweet this :)

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Eric January 16, 2010 at 8:22 am

I love Twitter because it allows me to connect with real people who care about me and who I care about and share great information and help each other out on a 24/7 basis. It's amazing technology and there's nothing like it out there that I've found. Other Social Networks come close but nothing quite like Twitter.

It's a benefit to have for all reasons if you ask me.

I like your article here.

S Ahsan January 16, 2010 at 9:05 am

I am glad that you like my stuff, I will be expanding on various topics and reveal tons of online secrets so stay in the loop.. To be honest, if you analyze properly, twitter has both good and bad points.. i shall bring that up in a few days, Cheers

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