We talked before about how to create a Facebook account as a great way to promote your site or business Check it Here.
Here I want to talk about Twitter as another great method to maximize your promotion either for your site or for your general business like marketing.
Meaning Of Twitter
Twitter is a free online social networking service and microblogging service that enables you to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". If you are a marketers or have your own business works, Twitter is a great tool to spread your content on the Internet and to interact with other users of your choice. It is a social medium which make it as a platform that conveys the messages you intend to communicate to your audience. It gives three major purposes:- Create a knowledge and understanding from users who do not know about you or your site.
- Keep the attention from users who follow you.
- Promote your presence and effective influence on the Internet.
Each Tweet you share is added to your Home Feed of Tweets and will appear on your followers’ feed. Your information must be concise and to the point because of Tweet is restricted to 140 characters.
Then may you ask Why Twitter itself so important for any marketer or site owner?
Here you the answer in a brief words:
Twitter is one of the fastest and growing online social media networks. It is also considered one of the top communication methods currently available, with more people and businesses joining the network every day. With more than one million new accounts created every day and near to one billion Tweets sent every week.
When you sign up for a Twitter account you will be in touch with just short of 500 million users. Most of the big names have an account.
For you, if you look for promoting your work, Twitter has become an essential tool for online marketing and business communication.
Then may you ask Why Twitter itself so important for any marketer or site owner?
Here you the answer in a brief words:
Twitter is one of the fastest and growing online social media networks. It is also considered one of the top communication methods currently available, with more people and businesses joining the network every day. With more than one million new accounts created every day and near to one billion Tweets sent every week.
When you sign up for a Twitter account you will be in touch with just short of 500 million users. Most of the big names have an account.
For you, if you look for promoting your work, Twitter has become an essential tool for online marketing and business communication.
How to Start on Twitter
All you need to have a twitter account is just few steps
as I will tell you here:
1 – To access Twitter’s website type the
following address in your web browser: http://twitter.com/
2 - Select your language at the top right
hand corner of the page.
3 - Fill out the sign up form with your name,
email and password and click on the “sign up” icon.
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| How to Start on Twitter |
As you see it is a very easy way to get
into twitter. But in fact, Signing up for Twitter can be divided into a
four-step process:
First step; adding your personal details:
You now fill the information you have submitted.
1 - In the first blank you fill in your full name; the one that will appear as your identity to other users on your profile.
2 - In the second blank you fill in your email address, you can only have one Twitter account per email address.
3 - In the third blank you fill your password which is very important and it must be unique for the safety of your password.
Quick hints;
- It is highly recommended that you do not use any of your other online accounts as a password for twitter . In case your Twitter account is hacked, you do not need worry that your data will be used to break into other accounts.
- Choose a unique combination of alphanumerics for your username which will be used to find your account and to interact with you.
- If the username of your choice has been already taken, you can pick one of Twitter’s suggestions.
Once all the fields have been filled out and validated, click on “Create my account”.
Second step; Adding your interests
Now, you can start in customizing your profile. Twitter will give you a suggestion topics that might interest you. You can also search for other topics. To see more suggested users for a particular topic, click on “View all”. To follow a profile, click on the “follow” icon next to it. If you change your mind, simply click on the “following/unfollow” icon. To proceed, click on the icon at the bottom of the page entitled “Next step: Friends”.
Third step; Adding your friends.
From this page, you can check whether your contacts also have a Twitter account or not . Twitter checks your contacts’ email addresses against their database and shows you potential matches. Otherwise, you can search for people by their names.
Fourth step; Confirming your account
Check your email, you should now have received an email from Twitter to confirm your email address. You must confirm your email to finalize your account, make that by clicking on the given link in your email.
All above which you will need to have a Twitter account, in the next article about Twitter I will show you how you can customize your profile.
Hope that you all has benefited.
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