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;

• Twitter Applications You Will Ever Need- Part 1
• Twitter Applications You Will Ever Need- Part 2
• Ultimate Twitter Toolbox: 100+ Twitter Tools, Plugins and Apps
• 11 Twitter Cleaner Tools To Get Rid Of Spams

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

Ultimate Twitter Apps Part 2

Enhance your Tweeting with Various Twitter text

Twi8r- Translates from English to text message shorthand and vice versa

Phwee- Invite your twitter friends to talk

TwitterKeys- This is a small tool which provides you with a floating window with all these funny symbols you can use in Twitter. Ask the Tweples, Get an Answer

Twitter Answers- Twitter Answers is an app created by Mosio

LazyTweet- Be lazy, ask the crowd

Twitter Graphic Resources

TwitterPatterns- Natalie a web designer does all the work for you

TwitterBacks.com- Get Your Free Twitter Backgrounds

TweetBacks- Customizable Free Twitter Backgrounds

Siahdesign- Free twitter buttons

Make Money with Twitter

Sponsored Tweets- Sponsored Tweets is a new Twitter advertising platform that connects advertisers with tweeters.

TwittAd- Twitter users can monetize their profiles & Advertisers can reach ALL of Twitter

Be-a-Magpie- The original Twitter advertising network, assists brands to harness the power of conversation.

Ad.ly- Fairly new but good. In stream advertising on twitter

Track Your Twitter Statistics

TweetBurner- Tracks links you share on Twitter and Friendfeed

TwitterGrader- Get Your Twitter Rank

TweetStats- Graph your Twitter Stats

TwinFluence- A simple tool for measuring the combined influence of twitterers and their followers

TwitGraph- Bring the best content to your followers

Tffratio.com- 3 Ways to get your TFF Ratio

Twitter Link Stuffs

Linkbunch- LinkBunch lets you put multiple links into one small link

TwitterLinkr- Check out the latest links posted on twitter

Twitturls- Similar to Twitterlinkr

TwitterSplit- Your link Question Mark External link

Create Reviews with 140 characters

MicroReviews- Review with 140

Twitter Notches- Partner of Microreviews

LouderVoice- Great tool for reviewing in twitter

Track Twitter Users Statistics

Twitterholic- Twittastic robots scan the Twitter public timeline for new twits to tweet.  Te calculate individual statistics

Toptweet- The World’s Top Twitter Personalities, all in one place

Integrating Twitter with other Social Networking Sites

Ping.fm- Ping.fm is a simple and FREE service that makes updating your social networks a snap!

Moodswing- Similar to ping.fm but you need to download this tool first

Scheduled Tweets

SocialOomph- Enjoy Powerful StatusNet Integration

Twittertise- Twittertise allows you to schedule your communications on Twitter and using URL tracking technology to measure the effectiveness of your traffic driving techniques on the platform.

TwitResponse- Setup unlimited messages to be delivered to your twitter page when you want.

Take Polls on Twitter

StrawPoll- Create your own polls and take polls on twitter

Twitter Polldaddy- Create a poll and send it to your Twitter followers in seconds. No account necessary!

Twittpoll- Twittpoll is the opinion channel of twitter.

Twitter to Groups

GroupTweet- GroupTweet turns a standard Twitter account into a group communication hub where members can post updates to everyone in the group using direct messages.

Twitter Groups- Twitter Groups allows you to tag your followers into different groups

Whats your take on this post?

Hope you guys found this content useful. Please feel free to share, comment and ask questions. Have fun tweeting!

Want to increase your twitter followers count? Remember, just adding and following random people wont give you targeted followers. Stay tuned for my upcoming post where I will explain on how to get the most out of twitter.