in this social traffic networking video we're
going to look at twitter which is growing and growing by popularity it's considered by many
to be like the next step on from blogging um in respect of it's very short snapshots of
what you are doing right now and many people say that it's a complete suck of your time
it just absorbs all of your time and effort but ultimately again if you can get followers
from twitter and you can get people following what you're doing and taking part in joining
in and absorb and get those people involved in what you're doing then you can use
it to promote site services videos and combine it with other services and other ways
of driving traffic it could be quite beneficial to you it's just another way of getting your name
out there for the search engines to find you and it's also a way for people to join your list
and follow you along as a twitterer or whatever or twitty whatever they called i'm not sure
just to give an example here i'm going to go to an internet marketer you may have heard of his
name's joel com known mainly for adsense and also for the next internet millionaire which was
a virtual reality show he did recently on the web and here he's got his own twitter site and as you
can see just making posts casually different days on an ongoing basis telling people what
he's doing and each time how to make money using on domain your domain name's probably an
affiliate link check out new promotional video goes to his site let's click it takes him away
from the page takes him to the site now at his website so as you can see this is a way of
getting people to follow what you're doing but if you make notes that perhaps
engage them enough and then give them a decent link they'll follow it you can make sales
build your list et cetera et cetera as you can see here with pictures of all these different people
already and you can view them all if you wish so that's the usefulness of twitter
let's look at how we join we hit join and in fact just to make it easy for you i'm
going to take you back to the main page let's go to twitter.com rather than showing it from
someone else's profile and all we do here once the page is load excuse my connection today
if we get started as you can see here it says twitter as a service friends family co-workers to
communicate stay connected through the exchange using the right way of course as we said it's a
traffic generation great thing is you can even twitter by sms or instant message you can actually
send posts to your twitter you don't have to be logged into your account to make comments you can
even send in a text so let's hit get started now and then the page will come
up for us to start our setup okay as always we're going to add ourselves
here so we want to put our details we can see here it's
available we put in a password and we put in our email
address and then we hit in the information here which that
looks like is what it is and then we hit if you want the inside scoop let's
say yes and we create our account and we go on to the next page and again they're asking us for our
gmail or hotmail or yahoo and we enter it here and it will then go to our address book to see if
our friends are on twitter and if so it'll add their details um to the site or you can invite
someone directly or you can just skip this step it's entirely up to you i'm going to skip this
for now but you could go through that part as well okay so now we've done that what are
we doing i am signing up to twitter today for the first time as you can see
you've only got a limited amount of words you can't it's not like a blog where you
can type for hours you can only put in certain amount of types of letting people know
what you're doing so hit and it says here tell us what you're doing now find some friends turn on
your mobile phone to update your friends on the go grab an rss feed as well place it on your blog
if you want to great way of doing it hit update okay so we can find some friends and see what
they're doing you can see what it's doing here you can set up your phone or instant
message as well so you can add it in so you're putting your mobile phone number
here um so if you're in a country code like home you put in your number here and you put
in your instant messenger and hit save as well so i'm just going to quickly do that now just to
show you here it says twitter really shines when you're away from your computer by hooking up
your mobile phone you can receive the updates from those that you're following or just some
people when you're waiting and boring lines and you can send updates like uh there's
a monkey walking down the street you know at the end of the day people reading it so it's
all done through sms so you can actually talk to your twitter site and twitter doesn't charge
anything for this of course but the need to check what your plan will be with your wireless network
and also note that you can shut text messages from twitter off at any time by replying with off and
back on by sending on and you can even specify that it turns automatically off at night etc
so you can actually have messages of following people to your sms now again if you were creating
a twitter site that became an addictive site if you were doing something out of the ordinary
we're getting people to follow you imagine the power here of having people getting your updates
to their mobile phone they're that hooked on what you're doing if you're clever enough with your
marketing spin they want to follow you by mobile phone or whatever so that's the option here
we can just enter the information and hit save in this song after doing the phone you can go
to notices and set up the notice feature which is like here auto nudge so nudge me if i have
not based in 24 hours this will send to text your phone or message to i am account show me
replies to the people i'm following new follow emails email me when someone starts following me
email when i receive a new direct message and i want the insights newsletter also picture go to
picture so we can upload our picture to the site and add it here as part of our profile
so again when people start following you they can see that you are a you're real if you
just upload the picture and then the final page here is the design page where you can use the
default style you could create your own style you can use a background image you can upload
your own image you can do different colors and you can save so we'll just leave that as default
for now that's how you set it up and that's it then just basically keep posting your twitters and
letting people know what you're doing and make it as a consistent practice that you're doing with
everything else that you do every day linking to sites and products that you're using and soon you
may well have your own band of memory followers finding you in the search engines because
don't forget people like google love social networks so you might find yourself
appearing in in google and also the fact that people on twitter might find your profile
by going doing searches and different uh information finding you and following
what you're doing and you could become the next style of twitter so that's the social
networking traffic video for twitter.com
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