In case you didn’t know, twitter is a popular social media tool that lets you connect with people.
I stumbled upon twitter when it was getting more and more popular. I became very curious and created an account. At first, I did not know how to start off and just followed a few people.
When I began using twitter more, I built more and more relationships on twitter. Soon, I began using twitter a lot. It brought good traffic to my blog. (At one point, twitter brought more than 100 visitors to my blog).
Back to where we were – here’s the main 5 reasons I use twitter.
1. Network
Twitter is a great way to build relationships and connect with people. I’ve made many friends from all over the world through using twitter to converse with them.
I also earned a lot of loyal readers and subscribers.
2. Driving traffic
Twitter is also a good way to drive traffic. As I mentioned earlier, twitter brought more than 100 visitors to my blog at one point (I tracked it using http://tr.im). That’s because many people retweeted it.
A retweet is a tweet that is being retweeted again, giving credit to the original person who wrote the tweet.
For tips on how to retweet, go to
How To Retweet: A Simple Guide
For tips on how to get retweets, go to
How to Find Twitter Twits to Retweet Your Tweet!
3. Share
When I stumble upon a interesting site, I’d say to myself, “Wow! I must tweet this!”
I want to provide value to my followers. So, if I come across an interesting/helpful article or site, I would surely tweet it for my followers.
And if they think it is interesting, they might probably retweet me, sharing the interesting article to a larger audience.
4. It’s useful
Most of the great sites I found (that I’ve bookmarked on my browser) are discovered from twitter. The people I follow sometimes send out great tweets that has a link in them. I discover great sites from clicking them.
I can also do a research using twitter by asking a question. My followers would answer my question.
5. It’s fun
Guess what? Twitter is also fun! It is fun to interact with people and share cool links. It is also fun to visit interesting sites that the people I follow are sharing.
If you are not using twitter yet and would like to create an account, click here to do so. Trust me – twitter is gonna be interesting 🙂 .
Lastly, if you use twitter, don’t forget to follow me! I’m @Gloson.
Happy tweeting!
My website’s biggest source of traffic at the moment is Twitter! It dominating 🙂
Great post Gloson
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Twitter is great! One of Gloson Blog’s biggest source of traffic right now is twitter, too!
Its interesting I find this…not too long ago I wrote on the 5 Reasons why I quit Twitter
Amazing how people differ
🙂
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Good post gloson. I just did a similar post to this on my blog. Twitter rocks !
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Yes, it does. Your post rocks too 😉
Though I had a Twitter account for over a year and a half, I didn’t start really using it until this past winter. At this point, this is the social networking site that I spend the most time on. I do have to be careful not to spend so much time on it though (especially with Tweetdeck!)
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Yeah…tweetdeck is the ultimate twitter client. Glad you like twitter 🙂
Twitter is a great platform where you can share or tweet your contents. Thankyou for sharing 5 reasons that interest you to use twitter.
After facebook, twitter is the best platform to spread your words. It’s great for driving traffic. Thankyou, Gloson for sharing reasons to use twitter.