I see a number of bloggers who are starting out with social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. I have been into Twitter before sponsored tweet opportunities had started out. Now I noticed an increase in the number of people who use Twitter to tap the potential of earning bucks from their Tweets.
In case you are not yet aware on what Twitter is all about, it is a site that allows anybody to answer the simple question: “What are you doing?â€. However, I don’t use Twitter only to report what I am doing. I use Twitter to announce that I have a new blog post, share some news or ask help. This combination is the most effective way for me. The video below describes what Twitter is about.
Like blogging, there are some sites that offer opportunities to make money from Twittering away. Except for SocialSpark, I have not used all of these sites personally so I cannot guarantee success with these services. continue reading »
Those avatars are my followers on Twitter. You might not believe me, but some very famous bloggers who are earning five to six-figures are my Twitter followers! Can you spot them?
If you had not been following me, then follow me in Twitter now. Also, you can get your own Twitter mosaic by clicking the link below.
There’s more to this than simply showing a mosaic. You can order a shirt or a mug and show up some of your Twitter friends or followers (you can manually remove the ones that you don’t want to show on your mug or shirt).
One of the first things I did with Twitter was to announce what I am working on. As I use Twitter more often, I noted that many bloggers had been using it to promote their blog posts. Like many of these enlightened bloggers I followed what they had been doing and began to announce my post as soon as I hit the publish button. I even got Twhirl installed to help me manage and post out tweets.
What makes me visit and reply to your tweet? Of course the message has to be interesting enough.
You are one of the first few to blog or announce breaking news.
You have written those posts like “how to”, “top ten” and other catchy titles similar to the title of this post.
You always have other articles, videos and pictures to share other than your own blog posts.
You have an opportunity to offer that make some money or other similar incentive.
You really interact with people by sending replies.
You ask help.
You ask questions.
You’re not too obvious in announcing a new blog post.
You post out status updates on what you’re doing, thinking and feeling – without being negative.
You love to spread the positive attitude around and easily relate to everyone by simple greetings.
I had noticed that most of the people I am following on Twitter often start their tweets with the words “new blog post”. With the Twitter population growing, I think “new blog post” is fast becoming an outdated style of promoting a blog. Being creative and interactive is must! Most of those tweets that belong to the reasons would get me scurrying out to check your blog post.
Of course, that’s what attracts me in using Twitter. I might be on a lonely planet where everyone does not agree with me.
I got to use Plurk, Twitter and Facebook at the same time for a number of days. Since I got a lot of social networks in my list, I thought I could synchronize updates using only one tool – ping.fm is a good thing to keep these three updated. At first I thought that ping.fm would solve my woes of reducing a bit of work in maintaining social sites.
I was wrong.
I realized that Plurk, Twitter and Facebook are three different social sites with different sets of people. I have Twitter friends, I have Plurk friends and I have Facebook friends too. I had to maintain good relationship with those friends whom I connect with each of those three social networks, not only just posting out links of my own stuff.
As a Plurk friend had said, there can be too much social noise. I defended that too much social noise is a lot better then having no one to talk with – at least online.
Twitter:a big mixed group
I joined Twitter first, and right now I’m proud to have over a hundred Twitter followers. The Twitter group that I got are from different countries like the US, Canada, India and of course, the Philippines.
What I like best about Twitter is that this network is far well developed. There are a lot of software that is written for it, like TwitBin, TweetDeck, Twhirl (what I use) and can easily be integrated in a lot of social sites like Facebook. Also, Twitter remains to be the main choice of A-list bloggers so I get to follow their updates regularly. Plurk: down to earth and casual
I have a different set of friends in Plurk, and since I am a newcomer, I had only 18 friends and 10 fans on my account. Perhaps if I placed my widget on one or more of my blogs then I must have grown a bigger friend and fan base. I find Plurk a much more interactive site than Twitter. If not for those A-list bloggers who use Twitter more than Plurk, then Plurk should have been a better medium than Twitter – it has more features than what I can write on this post.
I find Plurk users a lot more interactive than my Twitter friends. As soon as I had plurked out something, I often get replies in less than a minute – even from interested strangers who wants to connect with me.
Facebook: a better Friendster
Friendster remains to be the social network of choice in Asia. But to me, Facebook is a lot better. It can put links automatically from those Twitter. It can also post out links from delicious, Stumbleupon, Digg automatically. Well, a great medium to promote, IF only I have a lot of friends. I only got 18 of them in my account.
But most of my Friendster friends find it too overwhelming to maintain a lot of social networks. They are still sticking out to Friendster and I don’t think those Friendster users would like to switch or add Facebook.
Ping.fm: synchronize the social networks at once
I use ping.fm on times when I had to promote my own blog posts or share a link to all the three networks at one. I just wish that ping.fm will be able to show a Youtube and picture snapshot on Plurk and Facebook networks, than just showing a shortened link going to it.
I haven’t decided yet to put up that Plurk widget in each of my blogs. I want that widget to blend neatly with my account. From my experience in changing blog’s layouts, tweaking layouts takes time. So I just thought I’d put out a blog post that I am also in Plurk too.
Leaving Twitter? Hell no!
I’ve seen some Plurkers submit their plurks in Twitters – uhmm… they could submit the same Tweet or Plurk in Twitter in just one click. I think this has to do with a third-party plugin or website. Well, if you had figured this thing out then let me know – through the comments, or just Twitter or Plurk that out.. hehehe. So far, I only signed up using a Ping.fm account so that I can update all my social networks in a click – or so…
By the way, are you following me already in Twitter? Don’t miss my tweets!
