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Another awesome use for Twitter. Announcing to the world your quitting your job.
Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz posted on Twitter today announcing that he was leaving Sun Microsystems.
He wrote his tweet in a Haiku style as can be seen from his tweet above.
Why not I suppose!
I’ve seen lots of marketers promoting Twittollower.com over the last few weeks. I haven’t purchased the product so I don’t know the ins & outs of it but the main goal of Twittollower is to get you targeted followers for your twitter account.
Now I know a great way to do this for free.
The only difference as far as I can see with Twittollower is that the way I show you is not automated so you will have to press the mouse & keyboard a couple of times when you want to get new followers!
NOTE: Much like blogging or email marketing if you don’t provide your subscribers & followers with quality content that helps them you will see terrible results when you promote a product or service to them. Provide your twitter followers with great free content, retweet the tweets of theirs you like, engage in conversation with them & only recommend quality products targeted to their needs. Just like email marketing if you spam your followers they will become non responsive.
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I’ve seen some new software called My RSS Tweets being promote that will take an RSS feed and automatically update your twitter status with the details of that feed.
For example if you’re using the software to post details of my blog when I publish a new post the title & link of that post will be posted to your twitter account.
However there is a free tool which will do pretty much the same as My RSS Tweets.
It’s called TwitterFeed
All you do with Twitterfeed is add the RSS feeds you would like posted to your Twitter account. Link your Twitter & TwitterFeed accounts together & off you go!
The only difference I can see between the two RSS to Twitter Tools is that MY RSS Tweets is installed on your own server.
Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past year you probably know what a retweet is. But just in case…
What is a retweet?
A retweet is when you share someone else’s tweet with your followers.
So for example lets say TechCrunch just posted a tweet about the iPad and I wanted to share this with my followers on twitter, then I would share the following: RT @TechCrunch: The iPad And Chrome OS Netbooks Are On A Collision Course http://bit.ly/9EtlLm
The RT at the start of the post stands for Retweet.
How to craft a retweet link
So to create a retweet link all you do is copy the persons Twitter message & at the start of it add RT @TheirTwitterUserName
How to craft a Retweet This link
But lets say you want to create a “retweet this” link. One your blog or email subscribers can just click to automatically retweet your content.
To create a ‘manual’ retweet link. One that can just be entered into the browsers address bar to update a twitterers status you should create your retweet link in the following format:
http://twitter.com/home?status=insert+what+you+want+to+say+here
Make sure to include all the + sings as these represent spaces to the browser. So give it a try.
Here is a manual retweet link for a post I did on how to make your first sale online. Click it and “magically” all the retweet details will appear in your Twitter update box. (Once your logged into twitter of course!)
http://twitter.com/home?status=RT+@markflav+How+To+Make+Your+First+Sale+Online+http://bit.ly/9pA3kN
Want to start earning some coin from your Twitter account? Here’s three places you can go to right away to start monetizing your twitter profile.
1. Ad.ly
Ad.ly has some big name celebs on their books including Kim Kardashian, Stephen Colbert & many more.
2. TwiVert
Twivert provides “value ads” which you can share with your followers through twitter. When someone clicks on these ads you get paid, thats it.
“Sponsored Tweets is a new Twitter advertising platform that connects advertisers with tweeters. Advertisers can create sponsored conversations on Twitter. Tweeters can earn money for spreading the word.”
There are hundreds, maybe thousands of books, software, tutorials, ebooks, videos and so on, all to do with how to profit with twitter, how to get more twitter followers & how to get traffic with twitter & how you can use twitter to help your business.
That’s all well & good but there are plenty of free resources out there that can help your business on twitter too & here are 5 FREE TWITTER RESOURCES that you can use to get more traffic, increase your brand awareness & build subscriber loyalty.
1. Buzzom.com
Buzzom is a really easy to use tool that will allow you to unfollow those who are not following you, follow new people & follow people back who are following you all with the push of a button. Or as Buzzom puts it Flush, Grow & Reciprocate.
Socialooph will enable you to schedule tweets long into the future, send automatic direct messages to those who follow you, automatically follow those who follow you & much much more.
Tweetburner will allow you to track how many clicks each of the URL’s in your tweets are getting. This will allow you to see your most successful tweets so you can use them again & allow you to discard tweets which do not convert to clicks.
4. Twitpay.me
You can use Twitpay to send paypal payments to other twitter users. Really handy if you’re running competitions on Twitter.
Twitter Analyzer calls itself “The Most Advanced Twitter Analytic System In The World” Using Twitter Analyzer you can measure your popularity, celeb status!, identify keywords you’ve been using the most & lots more cool tools.
So there you have 5 free Twitter Tools which will help you get more followers, communicate with them more easily & track and analyze your results. If you’ve got any tools you’d like to add just leave a comment below.
