Is Twitter Really That Great or Just The 3rd Party Twitter Apps?
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Twitter is something that not all that many have thought it was cracked up to be, but then…
Well the problem with twitter to most people is also it’s strong suite, that is it’s simplicity. Well we all know that people in this techo-enhanced gadget loving age are not really looking for “simple” they are looking for “cool.” So when a new person sees twitter for the first time, most every persons response is the same, “So This Is What Everybody Is Talking About?” and there is the problem with twitter, it is nothing better than email, chat, instant messaging or even a simple online forum.
Twitter is nothing special, it does nothing new and really doesn’t make it any easier to communicate with anybody, because now you also have to go get another account to stay in touch with your same old friends. It seems confusing to most and myself included.
The fact that you have to use 3rd party websites and applications to make it usable in the normal since. If you want to share a photo, video or more than 140 characters, you off to anther site just to make this possible.
So the real question is what makes people want to download applications, get accounts at a bunch of sites and use many different websites to get the same effect as sending an email? Well, I have no idea!
I suppose that the huge Buzz built around twitter has a lot to do with it. For celebrities and other busy folks, the fact that you can automate its updates using RSS Feeds, so in essence you never even have to go to the site to “look” like you use it, may be appealing to some.
I love to see whats new on twitter once an a while, but I very rarily go directly to the website twitter.com I use other services that offer better search capability and don’t crash all the time due to over usage like twitter does.
The point of my rant here is this, twitter does nothing special, twitter as a website is not stable and its servers are down constantly, twitter is only usable if you use other websites to access it and again why not just post your info on any forum on the web? I think that by any standards you choose to use, twitter is a failure as a web service among other things.
The only saving grace is that they used there best judgement to allow others to build on there code and make it usable to the common person my making their programming api’s available to the public. But at the same time, if you need others to use your code to make your site worth using, why does twitter not take on the good ideas that others have created?
Well that’s enough smack talking for now, just frustrated that the fastest growing website on the planet is so bla!
Later on guys!
Nick Simpson – My Twitter Tactics Admin
How Many Twitter Followers Do You Have? Who Cares!
Yes, I know that the title of this article is bold and almost rude. That is the point! Many people on twitter think that having 10,000 twitter followers or more is going to make them money, make them important or even make them an authority on Twitter. This is so far from the truth it is actually a lauchable matter.
Why Having A Gazillion Followers Will Not Make You an Automatic Success on Twitter
The number of people following you really has nothing to do with your success or lack there of on twitter. This has to be the biggest misconseption of new Twitter marketers that I have run across to date. I know everybody loves to see big numbers under their name, but when it comes down to it, these numbers mean a lot more if you know how you got them.
By this I mean, if you go jump on every viral Twitter Follower site you come across, 2 things happen:
- You are folling the same people, everybody who went to that site is following everybody who went to that site! Does that make you have more pull with these people? No, not at all and in fact, probably less. People going to these sites are looking for one thing and that is followers, they have no interest in you or what you are tweeting about.
- You have now effectively taken away what ever good name you had on twitter by filling your tweets with spam from these sites. Most of these sites send out a rediculus ammount of self serving messages. Do you really want to promote the same junk? I hope not.
Twitter Follower : Quality Over Quantity
The ONLY way to get more results from your twitter following, is to assure that you are adding people who know you or at least have similar interest. Adding a “Follow Me” link on your main web site or blog is a great way to get real interested followers, because these followers have already seen your site and know what to expect and in most cases will be hungry for the information you are sharing. If you are on many social networks, let all your friends and fans on all these sites know how to follow you on twitter as well, these will become quality followers as well.
If you only build your following by automated resources, you will have built a pretty weak army, there are some follow systems that allow you to choose topics of interest and these fall in the middle in my mind.
Twitter Testing and Results
Just to assure myself that I was not just blowing smoke with this post, I recently setup a few accounts on twitter. I setup 2 that I hand picked the followers, make direct contact with each and built the way I suggest you do and I setup 2 accounts with autofollow twitter followers only. I am sure you can guess the results and in this case the 90/10 rule really did prove itself.
I send out one promo tweet each day to all accounts, among other real messages. I saw only about 10% the number of clickthroughs come from my auto follow accounts. If you are an internet marketer trying to use twitter to get clicks and get paid, I think you get the picture.
Taking the time to grow your twitter account really does pay off! If you want big numbers, go auto follow til you hearts content, but don’t expect these guys to pay the bills for you!
To Success,
Nick Simpson
Nick’s 20 Dollar Twitter Trick
More Twitter Tactics: This is another great twitter resource site that offers many free twitter tools and tips.
RevTwt: This is the site that will let you make money on twitter just like using adsense, you can set it to post ads daily on auto-pilot all you have to do is grow your following and tweet once and a while and you Will Make Money On Twitter!
Tweetlater: Using this site you can automatically follow people back that follow you on twitter and also send a welcome message automatically to all new twitter followers, really cool and it’s free!
To Success,
Nick Simpson
