My First Impression Of Twitter

My interest in Twitter is for the purpose of deciding whether or not the average marketer, newbie included, should bother using it as a means of making more money from their websites.

Social networks can be alot of ‘fun’ but I’m really playing with them to decide whether by whatever means, it’s worth recommending others to use them in order to increase traffic and profits from their niche marketing.

Did I just say basically the same thing in two sentences? Yes, so what?! :p

In the coming weeks I’ll be posting my thoughts and results from playing round withTwitter, hopefully for your benefit.

(Warning: If you’re a Twitter user already, this next part might be a little boring)

My thoughts so far are:

Firstly, I can’t quite pinpoint why, but it’s a cool social network.

Kinda like Myspace but simpler – you don’t have to worry about uploading tonnes of pics or monitoring friend requests (as such) – you just tell people what you’re doing – “follow” what other people are doing, and let other people follow what you’re doing -  good for busy people I suspect.

Then on your page is a mini profile where you link to your own website – but as well, you can link to your site at any time you like by writing about it in “what are you doing today”

Plus there seems to be a tonne of tools that you can use to beef up what it can do for you – but I haven’t gotten into that yet.

Basically here’s what I’ve done so far.

1. I added my Gmail contacts that were already using Twitter – so now I’m “following” them and I can hear all about what they’re doing in their day.

2. I went around looking for interesting people and clicked to “Follow” another hundred or so people – I figure the more people I can connect with the better

3. I started writing some updates, telling people what I was doing, and making some replies to what other people were doing – the beginning of relationships!

What result will this incur?

We’ll see!

For now I’ll keep messing around, taking mental notes, and letting you know!