For no reason or specific intentions, my mind echoed an urge to blog about anything today, and attempting to foster a blend of nonsense into the picture. At least something, that would make sense to me or to anyone who had been ignited to read on even if it is momentarily. Meanwhile, do leave some comments because I know my grammar needs some correction!
As for the most of us, I am pretty sure that you have heard of a social networking tool known as “Twitter”. If you haven’t, then follow this link to go straight to the site.
I remembered the first time I encountered Twitter. Initially, I have no clue of what Twitter was and by looking at its logo and name; it would seemed like a little bird that tweets. The concept is like a bird that goes from one flock to another, as it tweets, talking or communicating in its language to other birds. On Twitter, one needs to “follow” another person in order to “tune in” or to receive that person’s tweets (message). Each tweet is typically short, at about 140 characters or so.
The thing is, as most of us would want to believe that the purpose of Twitter is to update our friends (or stalkers) for instance, on what we are currently doing and where we’re at, to some it’s also somewhat a “hidden” powerful Internet marketing tool. It’s rather simple; just have your followers follow you on Twitter. To get a person to follow you is another task and not necessarily an easy one unless you’re a star or simply because that person is your friend or probably that person just like you.
Instead of just tweeting on what you are doing and where you are, you could actually twist your tweet a bit by including a shortened (usually non self-explanatory) link to a landing page, typically a sales pitch page or a monetized blog post. To make it more appealing or to have the real agenda further hidden, have the landing page occupied with a very interesting or funny video. That might just do the trick.
In my opinion, it feels like a mixture of a few things bogged down into a dichotomy of being public or private as far as tweets are concerned. If you want everyone in the world to know where you are going for lunch and you wouldn’t mind that freaky admirer stalking you, then Twitter fits the purpose perfectly. Even having your tweets published as private would render pointless, as the same stalker would use a different username. All right, so a stalker or stalkers are fine, what about criminals?
There’s nothing interesting going on with me for every minute or hour and for that reason, I don’t use Twitter. I did try for a while and unfortunately, I’d rather pick up the phone and say, “what’s up?” or rather chat online. Twitter is good for Internet marketing nonetheless. Off course, the tweet spamming activity sometimes can be annoying. It’s your choice to “unfollow”.
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