subject: How to Use Twitter [print this page] How to Use Twitter How to Use Twitter
Twitter is a social media site that allows you to engage in conversation with your customers. Twitter is use by business and organizations to obtain the result they want. Twitter is highly efficient in help your company to achieve business goal because it receives a lot of traffic. If you include URL in the tweets, you will notice the page instantly get visits.
Many people find it difficult to use Twitter to promote their business. Using Twitter to promote your business is not as simple as signing up and keep posting. To be successful in Twitter, you must have followers. Without followers, it is very difficult to promote a product on Twitter.
After you signed up with Twitter, you must go to the profile page to update your profile. By updating your profile, people will be able to get to know you. You can upload your picture as the avatar. It is best that you use a real photo. The head should be in the middle of the photo. In the biography section, you should enter a brief biography about the products that you are selling. If you are selling a service, you should write a brief biography about your profession. You don't have to describe a full account of the company history in the biography. You can include a small amount of description about the company history.
To find a follower, you can use the search box in Twitter. For example, if you are a florist, you will want to follow people that are interested in florist service. In this case, you can enter the keyword "florist" or "flower service" in the search box in Twitter. Once you press the submit button, you will see a list of tweets that contain the keyword you type. You should browse the profile before making a decision to follow it. The people which you follow must be related to your niche. If the person you befriended is not related to your niche, they will not be receptive to the promotional message in your tweets. The purpose of building a large network of followers is to help you to market the product easily.
Besides posting your links, you can post links that point to other informational sites. The link should point to an interesting news. If you frequently post interesting news, people will come back to visit your profile. They will subscribe to you. Eventually, you will have a large list of followers. You can also host a simple survey from time to time. For example, if you are a dentist, you can ask question such as "How Many Times a Dentist Recommend You to Brush Your Teeth?" or "How Many Teeth Does an Adult Have" and etc. You can post interesting questions in your Twitter profile to keep your followers entertained.
You should not post too many tweets per day. Posting too many tweets will not get your account banned but it will cause your followers to unfollow you. People don't like the front page of their account to be filled with posts from the same URL.
