04-10-2008, 11:30 AM
Quote:After a while I soon realized how powerful twitter can really be and what kind of benefits it can bring. Its been widely proven that twitter can be easily used as a self-promotion tool, to pitch your content, services and products with ease. This is done by broadcasting your message, although short, to your followers. Sounds familiar ? Thats because twittering resembles a lot blogging, except your messange is broadcasted in real time to your reader. Its this mixture of blogging, RSS and social networking that makes twitter so appealing.
Still not convinced? Heres a few more reasons why twitter rocks.
1. Traffic. Although at fist glance it might seem like twitter isnt capable of directing any respectable amount of traffic, truth is, if used properly, it can provide your blog with quite a few new visitors. The traffic from twitter isnt too shabby either, in terms of quality, most of the visitors being pretty targeted, that stick around, read your posts and even subscribe. You can send traffic by entering your blogs url in your twitter profile (this will be responsible for most of the regular traffic youll receive from twitter) or by twitting one of your posts url. The amount of traffic you can receive from twitter is directly proportional to number of followers you posses...
full article: http://www.lostartofblogging.com/twitter-guide