Twitter Traffic Advantage

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If you haven’t heard about it or used it yourself, it’s time you did! This site had 7 million visitors in February 2009, an increase of 1,382 percent since last year. Twitter is a simple, free micro blogging platform which is equipped with a number of tools, plug-ins and support applications. Many large and small brands are choosing to tweet business news and related information upon realizing the true potential that Twitter provides.

One of the best examples of twitter success is Skittles, which increased its traffic by a whooping 1332% in a single day after a campaign put the site into a tweet stream.

What YOU or YOUR BUISNESS can get out of TWEETING?

Traffic: And lots of it! In today’s on-demand market we are all a part of, news travels real fast. Twitter has turned out to be an essential business communication tool for meaningful, fast, clear, and concise communication.

Customer Relationship Management: When customers tweet issues they are facing with a product or service, the company monitoring the tweets can provide solutions directly to the customer, in real time. This will result in effective management of online reputation as well.

Analyze Trends: You can use Twitter to find niches and conduct market analysis too. With millions of tweets from people sharing ideas and information, Twitter is a great resource for trend analysis.

Check Your Twittonary Quotient

ab or abt – about

B – be

b/c – because

b4 – before

BFN – bye for now

bgd – background

1 – one, won

2 – to, too, two

4 – for, four

4U – for you

4ward – forward

GR8 – great

IC – I see

IM – instant message

IMHO – in my humble opinion

IRL – for in real life

K –okay

kewl – cool

L8 –late

L8er –later

lmk – let me know

LOL – laughing out loud

OH – overheard

OMG – oh my god/gosh

RT / Retweet –when you repeat a tweet from someone else

RU? – are you?

yr –your

YVW – you’re very welcome

YW – you’re welcome

Find a Complete Twictionary here!

Essential Twitter Tools

The rise of Twitter has been explosive and there are a number of tools and applications which are adding to value to this great platform. They include Tools and Productivity Apps, Statistics and Analytics, Find New Twitter Friends Apps, Search Twitter Apps, Web-Based Mobile Apps, WordPress Twitter Plug-Ins, Adobe Air Twitter Apps and Firefox Twitter Extensions. Read about the 99 essential Twitter Tools and applications.

Twitter.com was co-founded by Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey in 2006. It has about 6 million users today [a number which is growing steadily!] and the world’s most famous Twitterer is Barack Obama, with 237,500 followers.

Now that you are aware of how you can use Twitter for your business, here are a few ways you should NOT use Twitter:

Don’t OVER-TWEET

Don’t SPAM

Don’t abuse or be a mean tweeter

Happy Tweeting!

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