Twitter, Tweets, RT, DM ?

Posted by admin

March 27, 2009

What are these? This is the latest craze on the internet… Twitter. Yours truly, has been going gaga over this wonderful new tool. It’s a great way to communicate with people with the same interest. For instant, I love yoga and I get to talk to people who are passionate about yoga too as well as to read about what they think and do. It can get pretty addictive. So be warned!

Twittering is all the rage now. It is actually micro-blogging where you just enter short sentences of what you are doing, feeling right now. You can stay every much connected to your friends by updating little daily events in your life and vice versa. And your friends on Twitter can actually reply to your message, to forward your message and more importantly they can follow you.

In fact, many marketers are using Twitter for list building, in this case, building followers. Once you start twittering frequently, you can start to see others following you. Everyday I have like almost over 25 people following me now when I started to twitter regularly.

How do you start?

Easy peasy, just go to Twitter.com :

Remember to follow me too : twitter.com/yogapeace

Some tips about Twittering
Tip 1 : Put up useful content. If you are in the dog training niche, then share useful dog training tips or dog related websites that you found.

Tip 2 : Share personal thoughts or things you are doing at the moment. This will make you a REAL person and people will able to connect to you better.

Tip 3 : Use a photo of yourself if possible. Makes you more personable.

Tip 4 : Common Twitter Terms
RT - retweet, something like forwarding a tweet that someone made
DM - direct message is privately message someone
@someone - it means you are saying something to that person

Aside from communicating with people, there are also innovative ways to make use of Twitter. Check this quirky way they are using Twitter here.

You can check out what are the best twitter update tools here.