I have had a Twitter account for awhile but I haven’t really gotten into using it yet. At first it seemed like another annoying social media service that didn’t have any real point to it. However I began to change my mind after reading a few articles on it. It’s proving to be more and more useful, you just have to put a little effort into it.
Check out the two articles that got me into Twitter
How to Join the Best Twitter Conversations
There’s 2 main things I have begun to explore after these articles that I am finding interesting.
Twellow – This Twitter App allows you to search for people by name and by category. So you can find people in a related field say entrepreneurship, vegetarian, mothers and so on. It matches keywords from your bio that you provide on Twitter, at times it is a little off so I suggest seeing what it has you categorized as and then maybe tweaking your bio.
Twitter Search – This allows you to search all conversations happening on Twitter. Simply type in a keyword or words such as “Dell”, “small business” “Miami” and you will see all the tweets involving those keywords. This is a great way to find and answer peoples questions by replying to something they said. This will many times lead to them following you! I am beginning to use it to search for conversations about social networks i am in such as Triiibes and StartupBiz, both on Ning. I can then find other Twitter users on those networks and begin to network with them.
So if you’ve blown off Twitter I would suggest given it another look because even though it can be cluttered with garbage at times if you use the right tools I think you can find it useful.
Anyone else know of useful Twitter Apps???
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