Twitter 101 – Introduction

I just want to speak a little bit about twitter. A lot of eople are coming to use it now and they may be as puzzled as i was at first. I got an invitation from a friend to follow on twitter.

So I did. You cannot imagine my amazement when i found myself face with the question on top of an empty frame What arw you doing? Well I had no clue, and immediately started thinking about what I should be doing to be so relevant! millions of stupid things came up. I am drinking my morning coffee. I take saccharine instead of sugar and so on.

I babbled something and left quickly having just created my account.

A few months after. I now have 2200 followers, I want to tell you that if you feel as I did at first,I can totally relate to you.  And I obtained the followers in one month when finally armed with knowledge I gave it a go. As you can see it works. Check me out: www.twitter.com/bridgetbusutil

So what did I learn. I did :) ) fascinating blue bird was a bit of magic and had the remarkable capacity to talk in real time. That is saying that the apparently stupid questions were tweeted right away and people answered! Wow that was amazing!

So to make it short. Yess Twitter allows you to speak in real time. And it is called microblogging, or the way to send messages that are 140 characters long, including punctuations and spaces. Well you get the handle! It aims at being to the point, concise and you also get some help. When referring to a site or an article which has an arm long URL some apps kindly reformat the long and give you a short one. So not as bad as it sounds. These days you can include images and audio using other apps. There seems to be a new one everyday! Twitter is growing fast and flying far!

Normally it is used to share knowledge you have related to a specific topic: it can be about Health, Obama, Oprah,the state of Europe, your fall wardrobe, the last youtube, you name it it is there. So you tweet what you like, thinking of the people you would like to be in contact with; In business we call this targeting. Once you know that, you direct your tweets so that they interest your potential followers and the next thing you know. If you work seriously and give out intelligent and interesting content , people follow you back. Don’t be selfish now, and avoid talking about yourself. You have a short bio on the right hand side of the page which is very important because once more you have very little space to describe who you are and what you do. But that is it, end of story. Tweet with the others in mind.

I will give out some tips on the good apps another day.

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