Tweeter Meter

To tweet or not to tweet? Seems like of late this has become an urgent question to many bloggers. So, what are they, tweets? Are they of any value to a blogger? Can they help you to express yourself better in the online world or to direct more readers for your blogs? Well, let’s try to answer those questions.

Now, tweets are micro blogs of no more than 140 symbols each. The length of these messages was limited by this particular number of symbols, so one could read them or post them through a cell phone.

Through tweets people are able not only to communicate with a circle of their friends, but also to snap out the moments of their lives and share them with hundreds of people online. Tweets are fun, fascinating and even addictive. Once you, so to say, get hooked on them, you are very likely to go on posting and reading tweets.

Are they of any value to a blogger? Surely, they are. If you know how to write funny, wise, capturing tweets, and if you really have something important to say, you are very likely to get many followers on twitter and get them landing on your blog or site pages. Twitter traffic is a highly targeted one and can provide high conversion rates. It is very likely your twitter followers would become your loyal blog readers or subscribers to your newsletters.

People communicate through twitter in sort of friendly manner. So, they put down their anti advertising protective shield. This means you get a good chance to reach them with your message and to influence them in a certain way. Whether it is just sharing your life with them or inviting them to join your blog, tweets certainly open up a wide prospective for talented bloggers

Using Twitter is very simple and remarkably effective. It’s a fun and often highly informative way to keep in touch with not just friends, family and colleagues, but with business partners too and even potential new customers.

Twitter is described as a ‘micro-blog’ and uses a maximum of 140 characters in every update – although there are now ‘bolt-on’ sites that allow for a little extra space if there’s more to be said than would fit into the ‘micro’ format. Each new update is called a Tweet and people who use Twitter are called Tweeters. Friends and followers are called Tweeps.

It’s all thanks to that little blue bird which makes up the Twitter logo. It’s pretty much on everything and really unmistakable.

Pictures and links can be posted to Twitter as well as notifications of Facebook, and other social media or webpage updates. This makes it very flexible and useful for meeting people who share the same interests, whether for social networking purposes or for obtaining more hits to certain websites, or selling and marketing products.

Keeping customers up to date on what’s happening with a new product or an idea is just as important as keeping friends and family updated on what you thought of that movie you just saw or what you had for lunch.

It doesn’t have to get complicated. Some applications that use Twitter can even allow for certain Tweets to be posted to your account at set times of the day or night and this kind of automation is a huge bonus if there are just not enough hours in a busy schedule to sit at the computer.

Tweets refers to messages sent using Twitter, a website, and consist of short bursts of information sent between users. Tweets consist of text based communications and are equal to or less than 140 characters typed in the message. The messages are displayed on a user’s profile page. Tweets are also visible to the general public unless the person tweeting restricts the messages to followers.

The majority of people who use Twitter to send Tweets do so usually for one of six reasons.

Reason 1 – To provide random thoughts, minutes of one’s day, or just to speak out. This is considered pointless babble by some and social grooming by others. These are often personal, one sided announcements that do not involve anyone speaking back.

Reason 2 – To enter into conversation with one’s peers. This involves two or more people tweeting to each other in a shared communication.

Reason 3 – To give something of value to others, meaning things like advertising sales, free give-a-ways, coupons, special events, or other items.

Reason 4 – To promote one’s self. Self promotion is done often by people wanting attention, to bring attention to their work, or to gain prestige or public recognition.

Reason 5 – To send spam to others. Spam is usually bulk advertising meant to draw in people to promote a business, execute scams, acquire information for use in criminal means such as identity theft, and annoy or damage the target.

Reason 6 – To share news such as current events. Tweets are not accepted generally as legitimate sources for information because Tweets are often first hand accounts and not easily verifiable as a trusted source.

Tweets are a handy method of fast communication capable of reaching large audiences. The use of Twitter and tweeting is increasing. It is especially prevalent among people who are on the go or busy.