http://andrewhansen.name/web-20/twitter-the-good-the-bad-the-long-the-short/

Andrew

-No way, inefficient.

Twitter as a branding tool?

-Absolutely!

You mentioned 7 figure people using twitter, and they absolutely do… as a branding effort.

To expect to make a bundle by putting an affiliate link in what is, essentially, a teeny tiny blog post is just silly. However, using it to build your brand as a whole can prove to be valuable beyond measure.

I thank you for this post…I have heard the twitter thing over and over…I was afraid I was missing something. Thank God I was just to busy at the time to look into it.

With all the information overload IM’ers suffer with It is nice to know this is one chore I can cross off my list.

Debg

If you are into IM, technology, programming or any IT savvy niche, twit all you can. I believe it will be useful to generate SOME traffic.

BUT if you are into diabetes, scrap-booking, dating, bonsai niches… do you think those people will twit? Maybe some, but majority don’t use twitter.

You know what… I have niche sites and I don’t use mybloglog , twitter, rss feed etc – all these supposedly tools to help you generate traffic and readership.

Why? Because I know they DON’T use them. What they want is good old content.

By the way… I do make money in my niches and I don’t twit.

Bout time someone talks sense to all new marketing people….. Quite frankly: Twitter is for twits that have nothing else to do and follow some new marketing guru idiot like blind sheep (Not that John Reese falls into this category – he used it well to create interest and controversy. But, not everyone has a following like John Rees).

E.g: I spent an hour on a marketing campaign yesterday – result… 20,000 unique hits and 987 new sign-ups.

Will twittering away give me that type of traffic?
And, interesting point – 90% of twitter generated traffic are tyre kickers and fellow marketers – don’t want them to visit my sites: I want customers!

Duh – are we in this popularity or for money?

Go boy, go…. keep it up and break all the bs myths and useless information.

Cheers

John

I think you nail it right on the mark. John spent a good year providing really good content to his subscribers, so much so, that it went viral, and when he finally did his traffic secrets launch, i think he could have done 200k without a sales page.

So, perhaps you could provide super useful content, enough so that others tell their friends to go follow you.

Actually, I think the best thing is some of the free tools that link up things like your blog, and auto-post it to your twitter account. That way, you get dual leverage for a single activity.

Do you use these tools?

I’d love to!

Because he already has a MASSIVE following, MASSIVE respect in the industry, and he knows that now his target market hangs out there. He could do tweets, email his list, myspace bulletin, whatever. He’s already got the respect, he’s already the industry leader, he’s already got the leverage.

In return I’d like to ask question:

Did John Reese BECOME who he is, achieve that level, BY tweeting?

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I’m talking about the effectiveness of twitter for every day people. I’m talking about whether it’s effective for you and me, where we are now, to spend our time writing and reading useless little messages about what we had for lunch and what movie we’re seeing tonight.

For me, I’d rather spend the time elsewhere.

Andrew