Using Twitter as a Viral Marketing Tool for your Blog

Posted on April 15, 2009
Filed Under Internet Marketing, Make Money Online, Money Making Videos, Social Networking, Tech Gadgets | 8 Comments

If you are not using Twitter as a social marketing tool yet, I suggest you get a move on and sign up. We will be looking at what Twitter can do for your business (e.g. trying to sell an online product) or blog’s image, relationship-building, viral marketing, and networking, and how it can help you make more money online.

What is Twitter

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables you to send and read other users’ updates or tweets, which are basically text-based posts of up to 140 characters. These are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other subscribers (known as followers). Senders can restrict delivery to specific people or, by default, allow anybody to access them. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or applications such as Tweetie, Twitterrific, Twitterfon, TweetDeck and feedalizr. The service is free over the Internet, but you may have to pay service provider fees if you’re using SMS.

Twitter for Viral Marketing

The cool thing about Twitter is that it’s a great viral marketing tool. You can use it to promote your blog or if you are trying to sell a product through your website. The more people you invite to your Twitter profile as followers, the more than likely they will add you as a follower to their Twitter profile. Over time you will get hundreds or even thousands of followers and this will create a broad reach for your blog or product that you are trying to sell, possibly attracting more visitors and new customers to your blog.

Creating a Background Image for your Twitter Profile

Another cool feature that Twitter offers is the ability for you to modify your Twitter background. For example it allows you to incorporate your blog or website design into your Twitter background. Here are some design layout dimensions that you can work with to create a Twtter background image:

image width 1600 pixels
image length 600 pixels
left hand column 250 pixels

These dimensions will help you get started with the design of your very own background image. You can see how I have managed to incorporate my blog design into my Twitter Profile page by clicking on this link or banner above. You can upload your Twitter background image onto your settings and design link once you have logged on to your Twitter profile page.

Networking with other Twitter followers

I find Twitter to be a great networking tool, as it allows you to follow other Twitters who have the same business and social interests as you do. You can see what they are up to and what sort of tools they are using to market their blogs and websites, so you get to learn from some of the best on the internet. Often you will find some very useful links that they post on their Twitter accounts that may provide valuable information about earning money online.

Twitter Tools

There are some great resources to help you promote your Twitter Profile by just visiting the Twitter Applications Page where you will find Twitter Widgets and Gadgets.

Follow me on Twitter and I’ll follow you! Or if you have any questions regarding Twitter leave a comment or please share this on your bookmarking sites below.

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Comments

8 Responses to “Using Twitter as a Viral Marketing Tool for your Blog”

  1. Workplace On the Web on April 22nd, 2009 6:05 am

    I am using Twitter but not familiar with its benefits in networking. But I am studying it.

  2. mary avent on April 23rd, 2009 11:09 pm

    I just recently started on Twitter and your right that it can be a very powerful tool. Great post.

  3. Daily Mezze on May 3rd, 2009 5:34 pm

    I love Twitter and starting to learn the many benefits it has to offer. Yes, it’s true this site can be a great tool for viral marketing. At this time, I am in the process of gaining as many followers as I can. Twittering too my posts from time to time.

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  6. Anika on May 29th, 2009 6:05 pm

    This is one good looking, sexy theme, love it! What theme are you using?

  7. Efusjon spot on July 6th, 2009 12:23 pm

    Hello, I had listened a little about twitter. Now I have read a lot about twitter. Thank you very much buddy. i really appreciate you.

  8. Jason on August 15th, 2009 1:24 pm

    Nice article im trying to expand my twitter followers.Will take all this info into account

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