Obama wants to know what you are Twittering on internet – RT 110220

RTAmerica | February 20, 2011
There is a major debate over new legislation and the impact it could have on the Internet has people from the tech world and Capital Hill talking. There is a clause that will allow the President to pull the plug on the Internet and stop people from accessing it. CNET’s Declan McCullagh joins RT’s Kristine Frazao to discuss this and other hot web issues.

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4 Easy Ways to Empower Twitter for Your Marketing Benefits

Are you using Twitter to help build your online network marketing business?

If you’re involved in building a business online, you know the potential that the internet can offer. It can help you attract more leads, close sales, build your brand, build your credibility in the industry, and much more. It is important to go where the traffic already is and employ several different methods to market your business; and if you’re not engaging yourself in social networks, then you’re terribly missing out.

One great new way to utilize social networking is through the use of Twitter Tweets. How can it help you and how do you go about using it to your advantage? Let’s take a quick look at Twitter and what it has to offer.

What exactly is Twitter?

Twitter is a social networking site that allows you to network with friends, family, coworkers, and everyone else in the Twitter community. It basically helps you keep up with what people are doing at all times. You simply make a little post (called a Tweet) and everyone in the Twittersphere is now up-to-date on what is going on in your life. It is a great way to stay in touch with family and friends; but on a deeper level, it is an excellent way to see natural networking and marketing benefits.

So how can you maximize Twitter to benefit both yourself and your followers?  Here are 4 easy ways to empower your Twittering for your marketing benefits:

1. Define the Outcomes You Want to Achieve

Do you want more traffic to a website? Do you want to build your image as an expert in the industry? Do you want to show your prospects who the real “you” is? Do you want to simply increase brand awareness? There are truly limitless things that you can accomplish through the use of Twitter; but your tweet activity will be more effective if you focus in on just one (or a few) objectives rather than multiple ones. Once you look at the options before you and have set your Twitter objectives, then stay disciplined with them–meaning that even though you might mix your Tweets up a bit (between personal and business), the majority of your Tweets stay on track with your main objective.

2. Provide Value to the Twittersphere & Engage in Fascinating Conversation

There are thousands of users on Twitter and it can be hard to stand out from the crowd and get noticed; so it is important to focus on providing your followers with original and useful Tweets. Engage your followers instead of just throwing out mundane details of your life. You will have more people ‘replying’ to you, which will in turn catch the attention of others and provide you with new followers.

Ultimately it’s about adding value to the conversations that are happening on Twitter. You will become someone that people will seek out and want to interact with when you go beyond adding to the noise in the Twittersphere. Provide value, offer solutions; and remember that every Tweet counts and you are building a reputation.

3. Ask Your Followers QuestionsThis can create very effective Tweets and draw many followers into active conversation with you, creating a viral impact and leading to real relationships with followers.

4. Connect with as Many Twitter Users As Possible In Your Niche

“Twitter Surf” and find people in your niche that are following you and see who else they are following and the things they are Twittering about. One follower leads you to another follower and so on. To be known in your niche and build your own profile it is very important that you are interacting with others in that same niche.

Twitter can be a powerful business building tool for your online network marketing business. Stay focused on your objective, provide value, and remain active in the Twittersphere and your social networking will boost positive results.

You can see all of this in action at http://twitter.com/katielml Happy Tweeting!

Katie Liljeberg

how to be a twitter power user!

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How are things with you all this morning?. Here in N.E. England the sun is shining the birds are twittering?

on, and the Temperature is rising, what a wonderful day!…after one of the harshest winters on record…

nice day here to lv .. just been to tip . suns out .. swept garden down .. going to go walk dog in a bit around park…. where the birds will be sininging… love days like this … feels like i should be doing something .. all the time..

Are Your Online Marketing Methods Boring? Try Twitter!

The most Internet marketing fun you will ever have!

I have to admit there are many parts of Internet marketing which are downright boring for me. Rewriting articles into original content, submitting links to directories, the record keeping involved…these are all important, but they are not my most enjoyable tasks.

Therefore, I am very excited when something comes along which not only works well, but I can have fun with too! Twitter is my cool new Internet marketing tool I have been using lately. I can honestly say it is probably the most fun I have had with any marketing method!

I had my account for a while before I took Twitter serious. Sure it was fun. But was it really worth my time? When I kept seeing many of the top Internet marketing gurus using Twitter, I decided to take a closer look. After all, those top marketers probably weren’t spending their time with Twitter unless it was producing results for them.

I decided to give Twitter a closer look. I dug into it to find out exactly how marketers like John Reese and Willie Crawford were using it. It amazed me how much time they were devoting to this new marketing method! My methods were hit and miss at first, but thanks to a few Twitter mentors I was able to craft a system which is working very well for building a large following. At the time of this writing, I am consistently adding more than 50 new followers a day!

Imagine! 50 new leads a day which cost me virtually NOTHING but a small amount of “fun time” on Twitter. Also, the best part about my methods is that the new followers I get are targeted. It really does no good for me to get leads who are not interested in Internet marketing. For example, those tweeting about “gardening” or “coin collecting” really won’t do many any good as followers.

Although there are large amounts of Twitter users in the area of Internet marketing, Twitter is also used by followers in many other niches. Once you learn the process of “Twittering” and how to attract targeted followers for your niche, the sky really is the limit! Best of all, unlike many other marketing methods, Twittering is an absolute blast of fun!

Here are a few hints for Twittering success:

- Always have a descriptive bio of yourself and include a great landing page. You are allowed one active link in your bio. You can include other URL’s in your description, but they will not be active.

- Make sure you take advantage of the reply and direct message features. These two features are the real “meat and potatoes” of Twitter. Using them will result in strong (and profitable) relationships with other users.

- Use a link shortening tool like TinyURL to shorten links to deal with the 140 character limit for each Tweet.

- There are some cool third part tools which I use to ramp up Twitter’s marketing potential. Be sure to see my Twitter bio for more information about this.

Give Twitter a try for a few weeks and watch the results!

Steve Weber

Whats the difference between blogging and twittering?

The basic difference is that Blogging is free style writing whereas Twitter only allows 140 characters at a time.
A blog, which is short for weblog, is an online journal or diary, about what recently happneed. Twitter, is a "micro-blog", which means it is similar to a blog, but is meant to be short, sweet, and to the point.
Blogging rather than Twittering offers a better chance of bridging the gap between the various publics just noted. Blogging and twittering represent different genres with a considerable degree of overlap. The blogging genre allows for extended discussion, and comments thereto. Twitter does not. Blogging is more suitable for multi-partner conversation and linking across wide spans of an intellectual and social microcosm. It’s possible to Tweet on a blog, but that is a feature, not a bug. An index of flexibility. It isn’t possible to ponder and be ponderous on twitter. Or at least it seems out of place.
Blogging is a bridge across more than one river that once was impassible. Every week my inbox is crammed with correspondence from non-specialists in biblical studies, lawyers, doctors, and teachers for example, who are just as eager to understand the Bible as grad students in the field are. I can’t keep up with it. Non-academics in fact are more eager about understanding issues of Bible and faith and doubts and questions about both, because they suffer less from burn-out, a common ailment among academics.

What is twittering and how does it work?

It sounds like texting how is it different?

It pretty much is texting, except your doing it online.

Kinda like updating your status on Myspace, yet your just doing it over, & over & over & over again …. Every few minutes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

My 6 year old son is twittering in the bathtub on his laptop, should I be concerned?

He’s been Twittering a lot lately, and I’m worried that he’ll become an addict and and child rapist. You know how Jesus Christ says, early to bed, early to save the child from being an anal rapist. Us Christians have to stop our children from such acts.

I think you Sir, are my favourite troll

Are any of you girls are twittering and twattering when watching Cristiano Ronaldo play?

Well, i think he’s a tw*t if that’s what you mean!