Category: Twitter


Here is a great article on tools to help you use Twitter better!  Thanks to SmartBlog on Social Media.

Admit it: You might love Twitter as a social network, but you probably don’t love it as a service. Twitter is the Yugo of social tools — it can take you wherever to need to go, but there aren’t a whole lot of bells and whistles. Of course, Yugos probably broke down less often.

Twitter’s simplicity is probably a big part of why it has attracted so many new users over the last four years, but once you master the basics, it isn’t long before you find yourself wishing there was an easy way to unfollow inactive users or send private messages to several people at the same time. The good news is that Twitter makes it easy for developers to create tools that can take your Twitter experience from Yugo to Lexus without too much fuss.

Here are eight Web applications that you can use to kick your account into a higher gear. Note: For simplicity’s sake, I won’t get into full Twitter clients, mobile apps or analytics tools today — those weighty topics will have to wait for their own posts.  Click the link below to read the entire article.

8 tools for upgrading your Twitter experience | SmartBlog on Social Media.

Sandy Wright

Not to mention just the fun of trolling through the virtual “Twitter lounge” and hearing a variety of conversations, I really do have a method to my madness in using Twitter.  It may be a trend, it my be a surge in pop-culture distraction that will wane, it may be the real thing, and it might just be getting us all ready for the next GOOGLE WAVE, but Twitter has my attention at this moment.  Here are my top reasons why I use Twitter, yours may be different and if so, I would like to have you list your top reasons why you use Twitter.

Using Twitter in your overall marketing strategy is smart, but remember, you have to have an overall marketing strategy first for you to get the benefit of it.  And don’t be fooled – fooling around with Twitter for real takes a commitment of time and preparing content and doing your research.

Here are my top reasons, comment back with your top reasons why you use Twitter:

Top 10 PRACTICAL Reasons I use Twitter in my Marketing Plan:

  • Create a niche marketing channel
  • Leverage my Facebook page and other social networking accounts
  • Share useful info establish myself as a GO TO person in my field
  • Direct traffic to my website
  • Communicate a message to many people at the same time
  • Direct traffic to my blog
  • Establish an online following
  • Learn what my competitor is doing
  • Learn more about my industry
  • Establish myself as a go-to person in my field
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