Twitter, the ultimate micro-blogging platform seems to be the talk of the Town. Now, if your new to this and feel shy to ask other people about it get ready for some exciting tips from me. This guide will help you understand how to use twitter and to make the best of it. Also for those who are not new to it can still read it to get a better idea to use twitter more productively. I am doing it my Homework Style so it will be more easy for you to understand 🙂

1.) What’s this twit-twit everywhere?

A.)  (Not the same old defination) Twitter is a simple Social netowrking website where you talk to people and they talk to you by publishing Public Messages Called “Tweets”. You can reply and interact with people around by just adding an “@” to the username for example – replying to “monikkinom” would be “@monikkinom – your message”.

 

2.) What’s this Follower- Following thing? 

A.) Following is morever like Rss but this time it’s more “Social”. You Subscribe to people’s tweet by following them and their tweets appear in your timeline. Now Follower count is the number of people who have subscribed to your tweets. Simple and easy, isn’t it?

 

3.) What’s Mutual Following?

A.) Mutual Following is something where people Follow Each other i.e subscribe each others updates. 

 

4.) How is it useful?

A.) Twitter is very beneficial for people from all different feilds. Like for example Bloggers can use it promote their content or Companies can set up their accounts so that they can interact with customer properly. It’s not necessary for you to have a blog in order to join twitter. You can also use it for personal purposes like posting tweets about youtr life and so.

 

6.) Joined, Now what?

A.) Many people Join twitter to promote Content and in this struggle become spammers which you don’t have to become. Stay Cool and post things which you feel shall interest followers. Also Please don’t run to increase followers because Quality Followers and better than quantity followers but some time numbers do matter.

 

7.) Any idea how i can increase followers?

A.) As I said Quality is better than quantity it’s necessary for a user to concentrate on his tweets and then if they are Good you will have more followers soon. But yes, don’t keep following people on and on and if the number of people following you are less your account can be suspended. My tips would be posting interesting links from Digg would help you. Also try posting Tweets which ask followers for their opinion and views as by doing this you get more people to interact and therefore more followers. Also useage of # tags is a must. Hash Tags are those symbols which you can place before any word to represent it as the topic of your tweet and also this can help users find people to follow based on their category.

 

8.) Can i Make money with twitter?

A.) As it’s said you can make money with anything on this planet and you can do the same with twitter too. But that would mean Disrespecting the original reason for what twitter was made but then. people do use it and now it is also an effective tool for marketers. You can start earning money at Magpie and Twitad, but at an early stage i wouldn’t recommend that.

 

9.) What are the Best Twitter Applications to use?

A.) There are Many Apps. Out of them these are the few selected one’s –

  1. TweetDeck – Best App for people who tweet right from their Desktop
  2. TweetLater – App for Busy people to schedule their tweets and to post them later
  3. TwitterFeed – Best App for all those people who like to post updates about their blog posts as a tweet.
  4. Twollow      – An interesting tool for those people who want to follow people of the similar niche.
  5. TwitterCounter – It is an App which shows Details about your follower growth and also provides you with an counter with the number of followers for you to paste it on to your website.
  6. Twitter.Polldaddy – Used to conduct polls on twitter

 

10.) What else can i do on Twitter?

A.) You can use Twitter To promote Content, conduct surveys, get help from other pro-users, get to know new people and Much more. Just join it now or if you’ve already done it then why not tweet about this post! 🙂