Girls, you still using Myspace? It’s soooo 2008;) Not a fan of Facebook? Don’t understand why you should use Twitter? 140 characters WTF!!!

Here’s 6 simple reasons why you should use Twitter:

1. Getting reviews/feedback
   Yes, that might be interesting to interact with your fans and followers. A “wow you’re awesome” can be as useful as a “lame!”. It’s always good to know what people are saying about yGirls, you still using Myspace? It’s soooo 2008;) Not a fan of Facebook? Don’t understand why you should use Twitter? 140 characters WTF!!!Here’s 6 simple reasons why you should use Twitter:
   1. Getting reviews/feedback
      Yes, that might be interesting to interact with your fans and followers. A “wow you’re awesome” can be as useful as a “lame!”. It’s always good to know what people are saying about you and being able to reply.
   2. Receiving traffic
      You’re not gonna spend your day on Twitter right? You definitely want to send people to your show when you’re live, that’s a good way to do it. Let everybody know when you’re online and ask them to pas it on.
   3. Knowing what’s up?
      Always interesting to know what’s going on in the biz;) Keeps you updated with the new trends, the new people, the new technical improvements….
   4. Getting help
      You don’t want to call the Geek Squad? You don’t want to spend an hour on the phone with a customer support that might not even help you? Twitter is a social network full of people that might help you with about anything. There’s a chance that you have someone in your network that has the same computer problem and can help you fix it LIVE:)
   5. Making buddies
      Why not right? You might “meet” someone online that you wanna meet for real. Like you saw that gorgeous girl and you wanna do a duo online, get in touch;)
   6. Make a name for yourself
      Yes, if you’re not Jenna Jameson or Jesse Jane there’s a chance that you’re unknown for most people. That’s the terrible truth. But you can change that. First of course you have to have a “real name”. I encourage you to read my previous post about personal brand. Twitter is a viral tool so your followers have followers that have followers and when you tweet to one, you potentially tweet to lots of people. That’s what RT(retweet) are for.

   There’s many different reasons of course. After all it’s all about being social, like in real life but online. And you can talk about anything, share about anything too:

   1. Images
   2. Videos
   3. Blog post
   4. Comments
   5. Jokes(why not)
   6. Announcements/Events
   7. Ask questions

   So now what?

   Well, now you need a plan. You definitely don’t want to spend your day on twitter, it can be time consuming so you have to come up with a plan.

   To ease up your Twitter experience, I suggest a tool like Hootsuite. It will help you see what’s going on at a glance: your home feed, people that mention your name (@), people that send you a private message (DM), ….etc, and you can also save searches in a new column. That can be helpful to get into conversations in your area of “expertise”. Another helpful feature is the ability to schedule your tweets which can be good for many reasons: when you’re sleeping, when you’re live, when you’re out and about….to keep your twitter world awake even when you’re gone .

   Now the plan?
   You’ll find yours I’m sure. The one that fits your goal but if you need a start, here’s a little Twitter program you can follow everyday…yes EVERY DAY.

   1. Tweet a list 5 times a day
      Tweet an image(twitpic), a video(twitvideo), an event, a quote, …anything
   2. Tweet spontaneously
      Tweet some more but with whatever you want that is not in your plan. Just be spontaneous, whatever comes to your mind. You can post them anytime, you can schedule them for later…anything.
   3. Track and measure
      See what happens when you tweet. Who’s following you, who replied, who sent you a private message, who’s talking about you…and replies ALWAYS. Hootsuite allows you to see some stats about your tweets.
   4. Follow your followers and unfollow the others
      Seems obvious but yes you want to follow people that follows you and you definitely want to unfollow all the ones and unfollows you. A nice tool to follow back automatically: Socialoomph. It allows you to follow back automatically and send DM message automatically to your new followers. Saves some time trust me:)

   So to Tweet or not to Tweet…definitely! Tomorrow there will be probably something else, something new, something different but for now Twitter is the social network you want to use…for your own benefit of course.ou and being able to reply.

2. Receiving traffic
   You’re not gonna spend your day on Twitter right? You definitely want to send people to your show when you’re live, that’s a good way to do it. Let everybody know when you’re online and ask them to pas it on.
3. Knowing what’s up?
   Always interesting to know what’s going on in the biz;) Keeps you updated with the new trends, the new people, the new technical improvements….
4. Getting help
   You don’t want to call the Geek Squad? You don’t want to spend an hour on the phone with a customer support that might not even help you? Twitter is a social network full of people that might help you with about anything. There’s a chance that you have someone in your network that has the same computer problem and can help you fix it LIVE:)
5. Making buddies
   Why not right? You might “meet” someone online that you wanna meet for real. Like you saw that gorgeous girl and you wanna do a duo online, get in touch;)
6. Make a name for yourself
   Yes, if you’re not Jenna Jameson or Jesse Jane there’s a chance that you’re unknown for most people. That’s the terrible truth. But you can change that. First of course you have to have a “real name”. I encourage you to read my previous post about personal brand. Twitter is a viral tool so your followers have followers that have followers and when you tweet to one, you potentially tweet to lots of people. That’s what RT(retweet) are for.

There’s many different reasons of course. After all it’s all about being social, like in real life but online. And you can talk about anything, share about anything too:

1. Images
2. Videos
3. Blog post
4. Comments
5. Jokes(why not)
6. Announcements/Events
7. Ask questions

So now what?

Well, now you need a plan. You definitely don’t want to spend your day on twitter, it can be time consuming so you have to come up with a plan.

To ease up your Twitter experience, I suggest a tool like Hootsuite. It will help you see what’s going on at a glance: your home feed, people that mention your name (@), people that send you a private message (DM), ….etc, and you can also save searches in a new column. That can be helpful to get into conversations in your area of “expertise”. Another helpful feature is the ability to schedule your tweets which can be good for many reasons: when you’re sleeping, when you’re live, when you’re out and about….to keep your twitter world awake even when you’re gone .

Now the plan?
You’ll find yours I’m sure. The one that fits your goal but if you need a start, here’s a little Twitter program you can follow everyday…yes EVERY DAY.

1. Tweet a list 5 times a day
   Tweet an image(twitpic), a video(twitvideo), an event, a quote, …anything
2. Tweet spontaneously
   Tweet some more but with whatever you want that is not in your plan. Just be spontaneous, whatever comes to your mind. You can post them anytime, you can schedule them for later…anything.
3. Track and measure
   See what happens when you tweet. Who’s following you, who replied, who sent you a private message, who’s talking about you…and replies ALWAYS. Hootsuite allows you to see some stats about your tweets.
4. Follow your followers and unfollow the others
   Seems obvious but yes you want to follow people that follows you and you definitely want to unfollow all the ones and unfollows you. A nice tool to follow back automatically: Socialoomph. It allows you to follow back automatically and send DM message automatically to your new followers. Saves some time trust me:)

So to Tweet or not to Tweet…definitely! Tomorrow there will be probably something else, something new, something different but for now Twitter is the social network you want to use…for your own benefit of course.