What’s Twitter, And How Do You Use It??

Twitter works, and can be used as a very important traffic generation resource for your Web business. If you haven't heard the excitement about Twitter yet or are still thinking what the real intent behind Twitter is about, let me try to clarify. You are going to really like it, as it has a lot of potential for smart marketers who know how to use social networking to an advantage. Twitter in a nutshell is a simple social networking web site that lets you tell your family members what you're going through - right now! Hence the old catch phrase on the Twitter sign-up page -"What are you doing?" Think of Facebook, instant messaging and sms all rolled into one simple bundle, and you've got Twitter.Twitter works around a timeline which is viewable on a single page that's updated every second of every minute of every hour....you get my point. It's a regularly updated stream of news from people all around the globe. As a member, you can add your own little message to the time line up to 140 characters long to it known as a "tweet".But that is not going to mean you're going to have the ability to see every Twitter user's Tweets. You are able to choose who you want to "Follow" and others can choose to Follow you. And it's these followers who it is possible to converse (tweet) with.You might be thinking "wow, big deal" but there is massive potential in this mini social networking site to meet other like-minded people, share info and web site links. And those factors mixed with the ability to grow your followers make it a perfect platform for business.You can also use Twitter to....* Send direct messages to users instead of broadcasting to everyone,* Mobile options to send and receive tweets via SMS and email from your cellphone,* Search options allowing you to find Twitter users posting about a certain topic,* An API that allows 3rd party developers to develop some great applications.It's taking the world by storm and there is a great potential for business owners, online and off, so if you're not a member yet, sign up for a free Twitter account now.