What’s Twitter and Who’s Twittering?

The micro blogging social media site Twitter is fast to use and very responsive. No long articles with 500 words to post here!

Just 2 lines to say what you are doing, reading, promoting or thinking.

Twitter is a quick way to link to any page in any niche you want to promote. Its a fast way to share a video you liked or an article you found helpful without writing a long post about it.

More than anything else though it’s a way to gain a fast group following and link a feed to a blog or social site and vice versa.

You can converse with people on Twitter. You can private message your followers. You can say something or nothing. You can eavesdrop on other people’s conversations.

What’s Twitter? One of the most unassuming and useful tools around so far as social media sites is concerned.

How to Use Twitter Video

Watch this short video guide to Twitter about who is twittering or tweeting on Twitter and why.

The first following 2 articles give some valuable advice on how to use Twitter as a tool rather than getting sucked into the vortex of time consuming non productive chatter (or tweeting) . And if you think Twitter is a waste of time read the last one as well, these are stats that may well surprise you.

Twitter is probably the number one tool in your social media toolbox. learn how to use Twitter, don’t just join the site and wonder why.

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