How Can 140 Characters Make You a Millionaire?

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With only 140 characters at a time, you can make millions…

Twitter. Why is it that Twitter is only 140 characters by the way? Well, because many cell phones can only text 140 characters, that’s why! And why can cell phones only text 140 characters? Because the message piggybacks on signals already being sent by the phone and it costs the cell phone company NOTHING AT ALL to send the text message! So guess what, they are charging us ten dollars per month each (or more, or less) for something that is completely free for them. Smart… infuriating, but smart.

Ok, let’s get back to business. How do I capitalize on the vast popularity of Twitter and get the millions of daily Twitter users to give me their cold hard cash? How can I monetize Twitter??

You don’t!

Monetizing means to make money directly from something with affiliate links, or adwords ads etc. Take a look around on the Twitter.com site; even Twitter doesn’t monetize Twitter!

If you’re new to Twitter you need to learn some basics about how it works and what exactly is going on in the messages that you see.

First off go to www.twitter.com and sign up for an account. I suggest using your company name, website name or your real name as your Twitter account name. Don’t make it something that may be offensive, hard to remember or unprofessional if you are doing this for your business.

- Yes you may have more than one Twitter account, but one is hard enough to manage, who needs more?
– Upload a small image, preferably a small photo of you or your company logo. Now you’re ready to get tweeting!

Next you will need to know more about how it works and what it is you will be seeing in the tweets of those you follow. Most of the tweets you will see are two different types of usless information; 1) Spam and 2) Random meaningless tweets by strangers and “Goodnight Twitter” messages. (Don’t waste people’s time by posting “Goodnight Twitter”… please!!)

The information you are honestly interested in seeing will not appear in your tweet stream! The messages you will see are every post made by every person that you are following. Imagine following 2,000 people like I do, or 10,000 or 20,000… how in the world do you follow that many people?

YOU CAN’T.

You’re on Twitter to get your message across, to speak to your audience, and to respond to only those messages that are actually sent to you and are not spam, but a human that is interested in speaking to you. And, in a nutshell, twitter.com is completely USELESS for doing this!

Now if you follow me, don’t get me wrong; I’m not discounting you as a person or uninterested in what you may have to say, but I can’t possibly be that involved with the thousands of people I would like to reach on a daily basis regarding camera repair. Twitter is amazing, and if I could afford a full time employee to do just Twitter I probably would.

I use Twitter every day, and I see almost every person that tweets about a broken digital camera or digital camera repair. I can’t possibly message them all, and when I try to, I think they think I’m just spamming. I would advise you to not do more than what you can comfortably handle. You are using Twitter to build credibility with your audience, not to sell to them.

Ok now, in your tweet stream you will see messages with different symbols, abbreviations and crazy looking links.

- The different symbols most commonly used are: @ (a message sent to a person so it shows up in their tweet stream) and # (an easily search-able topic or subject)
– Some of the most common abbreviations are TT (Trending Topic: something that is mentioned in many different tweets right now), DM (Direct Message: sent only to you, nobody else can see it), RT (ReTweet: somebody else posted this first and I can ReTweet it letting others know I think it’s good) and FML… I’ll leave it to you to find out what FML stands for.
– The crazy looking links have been shortened so that they take up less space. They look odd, and yes they can take you to any site without your knowledge so you must trust the person that posts it. There are only 140 characters that you may use and so shortened links are highly used.

If you want to seriously use Twitter then you will need software like Tweetdeck from www.tweetdeck.com; it’s awesome. Twitter is completely useless for any sort of business purpose if you try and use it through Twitter.com. Personally, I never go to the Twitter website, there’s no reason to!

Download Tweetdeck, and Adobe Air if needed and get Tweetdeck running. You will have columns for tweets where you are mentioned (with the @ symbol before your name) and sent Direct Messages (DM). Other than these basic columns you may add more for customized searches that will update themselves and keep you informed when anybody tweets using your specific keywords!!

Maybe you have a dog training business online; create a search column for ‘dog training’ and you will see every single message every person tweets with the words ‘dog’ and ‘training’ in any order of the tweet. They won’t always be about ‘dog training’, (I’ve been in training for scuba diving testing… oh the dog has to go out) but most will. Now figure out other combinations of keywords or search phrases… ‘dog training’ won’t give you any results for ‘training dogs’ for example, but ‘dogs training’ will. Hopefully I am able to clarify the difference!

Any time you see a relevant message about something in your area of expertise, you can follow the person that posted the tweet (you aren’t really interested in following them, but they like it and normally will follow you back) and then send them an @ message. You SHOULD NOT try and sell anything to the person you are tweeting with your first message to them. Start a conversation and let them know you are an authority in your subject area and see if there is something that you can do to help… FOR FREE. Yes you can post a link to your site if you feel you must, but they will ask or figure it out if they are interested. Don’t be pushy!

If you want to be a spammer and annoy people, then by all means please try to monetize Twitter! This is how!

1- Harass people with your first tweet when they follow you, by sending them an automatic DM that spams them with something to buy.

2- Spam the same tweets over and over all day and night, every day. Better yet, spam the same tweets at the same time from multiple accounts every 15 minutes 24hrs a day.

3- Post tweets that are obviously stuffed with TT’s!

4- Never talk with people who are interested in your area of expertise, use software to create every tweet for you.

5- Never give free advice, or post tweets to sites that will help people and have nothing to do with something you sell.

6- Post obscene or controversial messages about relition, politics or bodily functions. Also swear whenever possible.

7- Tweet @ every user you see with your offer and website

and so on and so forth…

I know there is information here that you can use starting today to get started on Twitter. Don’t worry about not understanding everything that’s going on or what you should do or say. Start off by following people in your market and see what it is they do on Twitter. Don’t follow celebrities unless that is your area of business; follow them once you know what you are doing and have the time to do your work plus see what Shaq is eating for lunch.

Tweet @ you Twitterites later.

What The Heck Is Twitter?

Whether or not you recognize what twitter is, I bet I have some particulars you did not know. Consistent with Wikipedia, twitter is a free social-networking and micro-blogging service that allows folks to send and browse messages up to one hundred forty characters long. That is not much, however in todays quick moving world, several folks do not have time to browse abundant more. Like other social networks, you’ll be able to follow and connect with people.

Therefore what is twitter good for? There’s no method I might list all uses. So I’ll simply mention a few. You’ll be able to use twitter to stay in touch with friends. The short messages referred to as tweets are public. Anyone can read them on twitter.com. twitter is one in all the fastest ways in which to spread news. By using keywords called hash tags, tweets can be labeled. No list of uses would be complete without mentioning spam and marketing. twitter contains a heap of spam. But there are ways to avoid most spam. twitter is terribly mobile. You’ll be able to send twitter messages with your cell phone plus from your home computer. With twitpics you’ll even send photos from your mobile phone to twitter. News merely will not be reported faster than that!

Here are some interesting twitter particulars in no specific order:

* even Obama has a twitter account

* ladies outnumber men on twitter

* Brazil ranks fifth in twitter users despite not being English speaking

* More than half of twitter users use something other than twitter.com to tweet, monitor and manage their tweeting

* 5% of twitter users account for 75% of all activity

* 21% of users have never posted a tweet

* 85.3% of all twitter users post but one update per day

* there are over 250 (and counting) twitter copycat websites

There are a lot of services out there to create using twitter easier. These services are either other websites that give a different user interface for twitter or they’re software to download and run on your computer. Some of those are free and a few price money. Some promise to add thousands of users to your follower list, others promise to form you thousands of bucks by tweeting affiliate links. Many of these automations will eventually result in your account being suspended. twitter does not permit the utilization of software to automatically tweet or add/take away followers. Still, many individuals use such software.

There is a lot a lot of to find out concerning twitter that I will write in one article. Whether or not you are a new tweeple or an experienced twitter guru, the list of twitter uses and interesting twitter details is endless. You’ll be able to notice a pleasant and free online twitter course on urlchef.com/twittercourse/ to continue to be told more about twitter and its uses.

twitter remains evolving and can be around for a long time. Regardless of what you are doing online, I’m positive there is a way you’ll use twitter to your advantage. Some universities even use twitter for research. What can you utilize twitter for?

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Twitter Results on Google

There is so much hoo ha about Twitter killing Google and Twitter being the future search tool. Each and every article you come across with Twitter is that they do things in real time and that Google do not meet the same demands.

 

Google has responded with so many different methods, the most recent being feeding in Twitter results into the SERPs and having the selection to bring in results that were updated in the last hour. But in my personal opinion twitter is a social site like any other site. There are some downsides to the service in my judgement, which are as follows.

 

Information

The information and the news is all very well and good being in real time, but what if someone wants to read up on older information, can they really do that? No they merely cannot, because it’s all in real time and sites are actually never crawled and indexed, it is going to be really arduous.

 

Products

Now this in my judgement is the main killer for Twitter and it’s something that Google are doing awry too. Google are now trying to bring in more real time results and results which are current that people have just posted or talked about. Every non tech person (the mass user) I know uses either EBay, Google or Amazon to buy something, with Google probably being the first choice. They do this because it is hassle free, its so easy to type into search and away you go. Two, its highly relevant, Google have never really let me down when I want to purchase something, they always give me trusted sites. Now what could these product searches do alternatively? Search on Twitter and get conversations? No thanks, or create an account and ask your 0 followers to aid you? Or I know, grow your network communicate with people you do not know and ask them, but why? Why would anyone want to do that? People have busy lives and they do not have adequate time to forever update their tweets. What easier solution then to go to Google and type in what you are looking for, does it have to be genuine time. No, not at all, trusted products from trusted sites which have built that trust with hard work and clever advertising.

 

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