Share your Twitter success stories and grab some free exposure
I’ve been using Twitter for a few weeks now but have yet to experience the kind of epiphany that many of its advocates speak of. That’s probably because I’m still not totally convinced that I’m ever going to be Twitter’s biggest fan. And that is, almost certainly, clouding my judgement when making decisions about who to follow, whether to reciprocate followers, and generally how to use the system in a way which is both legitimate and useful to everyone concerned.
It’s important, to me at least, to not simply use Twitter as a traffic pump for personal gain. I’ve spoken before about how the spammers, fake celebrities and marketing drones are infecting Twitter. Oprah’s recent invasion, if not the straw that breaks the camel’s back, will certainly push the signal to noise ratio in the wrong direction.
However, despite my continued recalcitrance, I am aware of many people, some that I respect and some that I consider to be clowns, who have used Twitter to great effect.
And therein lies an opportunity for me and, if you have a successful Twitter story to share, for you. I benefit from the experience of an audience that I respect and your Twitter success story gets a healthy dose of targeted traffic here at Upstart Blogger.
My recent blog posts mentioning Twitter have received particularly large amounts of ongoing traffic. If you share your story in a comment below you can be sure that it will be read by like minded individuals, giving you an opportunity to further grow your Twitter following in terms of numbers and, more importantly in an increasingly diluted Twitter arena, credibility and authority.
Be sure to include both your blog and Twitter addresses in your comment to ensure maximum exposure.
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Ashley Morgan is a UK jazz trumpet player and owner of independent record label 447 Records.
Ashley Morgan is the trumpet player with Enormous.
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Dear Ashley,
I have been using twitter for about two months now, only covering and tweeting about posts in one of my two specialist areas, Personal Branding (the other is small business development). Starting the 1st of March I have built a rather large amount of followers (1,128 right now) and gained a lot of creadbility and “fame” in markets where I haven’t been working before.
My twitter mission is that “following me will allow you to keep up with all new Personal Branding material posted on twitter”, and with new I mean that I only post or retweet posts that are posted during the last day.
So far I have been asked to post guest posts in other, rather well visited blogs, giving presentation and established a lot of relations with others in the industry and potential clients.
In my opinion, Twitter has been a great channel for me to help others and by doing that helping myself getting a stronger brand, more contacts in the industry and spreading the word of my work and my blog (marketing).
Please follow me at http://twitter.com/Rynge
I’ve mentioned here before that I’ve found Twitter useful as a means of finding and networking with people in my niche (writing, publishing etc). I’ve also tried to make sure I offer value, whether that’s in the form of links to interesting articles or conversations with other people.
I don’t tweet for the sake of it, that’s for sure. And I don’t believe you have to have a routine or daily Tweet target. As I say, for me it’s about adding value and then getting what you want from the platform.
This is me: twitter.com/iainbroome
Hi Ashley, I’ve struggled to really understand Twitter which is a little embarrassing as I consider myself a technology evangelist but it’s only recently that I’ve started to appreciate Twitter really is “what you make of it”. Now, instead of following thousands I’ve cut my stream down to just those I see a value with and I’ve started to use a better tool (Tweetie). Suddenly, I think I get it.
Over the past week, Twitter has been useful for me as a means to learn about new phishing attacks and video posts from people I like to learn from as well as local news and even the weather outside my office.
What you need to get is that people are tweeting about what they want, if you can tap into that via search.twitter.com.
It took me some time to “get” twitter, once you
Search for people offering what you have and give them a gentle hello by following them, or a subtle reply saying you can fix their issues. Add to this by pumping good content into the stream and recommending other stuff to you followers and it all comes together
For me twitter is very usefull. I use it, as it is designed for, keeping in contact with friends. On top of this I have a website (can’t remeber whats its called right now) to automaticly publish my RSS fee to twitter. I have found it to be a little glitchy for the few months I have been using it though as I often find that:
a) The server is too busy for me to get on
b) The “Remember Me” box appears not to work
My Personal view directly disagrees with Daniel Groves.
For me, Twitter is not for “keeping in contact with friends”. If that what it was for, I’d have no use for it. I already have facebook, and that does it just fine, and more privately, I might add.
I’ve had a twitter account for a long time (my User ID is around 600k). It took me two years to finally figure out what it’s good for. And I now explain it to people (these people are typically already using social networks) by saying one direct comparison:
“Facebook is for keeping in touch with people you know regardless of the content posted. Twitter is for keeping in touch with specific content, regardless of who the person is.”
Now I need to disclose, this is *my personal view*. But I agree With Neil Matthews. You need to tap into subject matter, not people. You need to generate content for the those who are doing likewise. If it’s good stuff, the people will come.
The light went on for me, when I tweeted a gripe about Quickbooks for OS X, and got a reply from a person working on the OS X team for Quickbooks. The weren’t following me, they were following the ’subject of Quickbooks for OS X’. Which led them to me. Brilliant.
(I forgot) my twitter account:
@afruit
The Twitter search is an excellent business tool. I have a search on a couple of specific terms setup as an RSS feed on my mail client. Anytime someone tweets on that specific term I can write back to them with solutions or information regarding their question. I also have one setup for our company’s name. Anytime someone is considering using us we can refer them to satisfied clients and to independent sites that offer reviews on our services.
I was not sure about twitter either – it seems like people are just out to get as many followers or follow as many people as the can.
I decided to for the most part (except for adding friends I actually know and a few I don’t that caught my interest) that I would add people that I found relevant in some way to my blog work.
I do not think I am using twitter to full potential yet but for now I am satisfied with what I am getting from it.
http://twitter.com/tacogirl
http://www.tacogirl.com