Twitter.com gives users up to 140 key strokes to send their friends and followers a brief message. That says what? It answers the question, what am I doing right now?
Who would have ever imagined that the simplest of social networking concepts would become so prolific?
We all know why Facebook is interesting! Its because we can see snapshots into the lives of our friends. They show us what they want us to know, and we consume it rabidly. We can see their photos, read their daily status updates and even play games like Scrabble. Who would have imagined that a social website dedicated soley to the commonplace status update would become so widespread?
As you know, Twitter is a very future minded website. It is becoming the rage with people young and old, and has captured the eye of online marketers around the world.
Regardless if your sophisticated mindset deems the concept at first glance, it is a very powerful tool. Just a few years ago not many people would have thought anyone would care if say for example – I am going for a venti valencia cappuccino at Starbucks with Bill. Nowadays, people are very interested in the minutia of each others day to day lives. Well add that to the exponential growth rate of memberships on these viral networking sites, and it introduces a very powerful Internet marketing tool.
You see Twitter allows you to post many updates a day. In fact as many as you can and want to in as short a time as you feel like. Most people want to avoid being seen as annoying with their posts but many people do add numerous status updates per day.
hats more is that Twitter allows you to post hyperlinks to your site via links that you post in your updates. If they are long hyperlinks, they use tinyurls but if they are just domain name, then they will post as is. Either way, Google regards inbound links from good neighborhoods as a good thing. As you gain notoriety online, your profile may be seen as good by Google too.
For example, take the Twitter profile page of EZineArticles.com editor Chris Knight. http://twitter.com/ChrisKnight . He has thousands of people following him and he is following thousands of people. As of time of writing his Twitter profile page has a Google page ranking of 5. That is fairly impressive for just another profile page on a social network website.
The implication of the second facet is that Google will identify numerous inbound links from higher page rank pages, to your website. While your own page rank itself is not a critical factor, it is important to have links coming in from highly regarded web pages.
In summary, Twitter.com is a new and fairly rudimentary website at first glance. Yet under the surface it is clearly a very effective viral marketing tool. When you consider the considerable growth experienced by sites like YouTube.com and Bankrate.com due to the introduction of viral growth mechanisms such as inviting friends and following people, you can understand the importance of using new and burgeoning sites like Twitter.com.
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