Microblogging for Blog Traffic – Twitter
You can join Twitter by visiting its home page and clicking the Get Started — Join button, shown below. Complete the online form to create a free Twitter account and then you can start “tweeting!”
Microblogging, a relatively new tool of the social Web, allows users to publish short blog posts or messages, typically fewer than 140 characters, through their computers and mobile phones It’s a helpful way to keep your name in front of people and to announce and highlight new blog posts, upcoming events (such as blog contests or carnivals), and more. The possibilities are virtually limitless! Think of it as free publicity.
When you begin microblogging, you create an account and start publishing content. You can even include some microblogging feeds in your social networking profiles, such as in your Facebook account. Microbloggers sign up to “follow” other microbloggers they like. That’s what makes microblogging social. When users sign up to follow each other’s content, microblogging becomes a tool for sharing, networking, and relationship building.
The best part about microblogging is the quick and easy way it allows users to share news, information, and content. It’s this type of sharing that can make a post go viral (spread across the Web). The potential exists, at the least, for news and information to travel quickly online. Microblogging really just began in 2007, but already millions of people have joined through Web sites such as Twitter and Plurk.
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