In this Social Traffic Networking video, we are 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 in respect of a very short snapshots of what you're doing right now. Many people say this is 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 are doing and taking part and joining in and absorb and get those people involved in what you are doing. Then you can use it to promote the sites, 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, next to the search engines to find you and it's also a way for people to join your lessons and follow you along as a Twitter or a twitty whatever they call them, on the show.
Just to give an example here, I am going to go to Internet Marketing, you have heard of, his name is Joel Comm, known making for Adsense and also for the next Internet Millionaire which was a virtual reality show he did recently on the web and he has got his own Twitter site and as you can see just making posts casually different days on an ongoing basis, telling people what he is doing. At each time, you have to make money using your domain names, probably in a Fill It link, check out new promotional video that goes to his site, let's click it.
Takes them away from the page, take them to the site, it's now 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 get them a decent link, they'll follow it and you can make files, build your list etcetera, etcetera and as you can see here the pictures of all these 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 am going to take you back to the main page. Let's go to Twitter.com and I've been showing you from someone else's profile. And all we do here once the page is loaded, is getting my connection today, as we get started to join. As you can see here it says, Twitter is a service for friends, family, co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange. These are my vehicles as we set it to traffic generation.
Great thing is you can even twitter by SMS, or an instant message, you can actually send, post your Twitty. You don't have to be logged into an account to make comments, you can even send in a text, as you see it's get started now, and then the page will come up for us to start our set up.
Okay. As always we are going to add ourselves here. So we want to put our details. We can see here it's available. We put in the password and we put in our email address and then we hit in the information here. We should start -- it looks like, this is what it is and then we hit, if we want the inside scoop and say yes, and we create our account and we go to the next page and again they're asking us for our Gmail or Hotmail or Yahoo and we enter here and it will then go to our address book to see if our friends are on Twitter and if so, it will add their details to the site or you can invite some directly or you can just skip this step, it's entirely up to you. I am 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 oh, we've got a limited amount whereas you can't -- it's not like a blog where you an type for hours. You can only put in a certain amount of thoughts to let people know what you are doing. And it says hit and that's what we're doing now, find some friends, turning your mobile phone to update the friends on the go. You have an RSS feed as well placed on your blog if you want to, go ahead and start doing it, hit Update, okay.
So we can find some friends and see what they're doing. We can see what he's doing here. You can set up your phone and instant message as well, so you can add them in. So you put in your mobile phone number here. So if you are in a country code like I am in, you put in your number here and you put in your instant messenger and hit Save as well. So I am just going to click to 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 you're following or just some people. When you're working in it, then you can send updates like, there's a monkey walking down the street, -- 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 they need some check what your plan will be with your wireless network. Also note that you can shut text messages from Twitter off at anytime by replying with "off" and back on by sending "on" and you can even specify that it turns automatically off at night etcetera.
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 for getting people to follow you. Imagine the power you'll have in people getting your updates to their mobile phone as that hooked to what you're doing. If you're clever enough with your marketing span, they want to follow you by mobile phone or whatever. So that's the option here we can just enter the information and here it's safe.
You can go to the Notices and set up the Notice feature which is like keep Auto Nudge, nudge me if I haven't updated in 24 hours. This will send a text to your phone or message to your IM account. Show me applies to people I am following. New Follow Emails, email me when someone starts following me, Email when I receive a new direct message and I won't need so I will skip Newsletter. We will save Picture, go to Pictures, so we can upload our picture to the site and as it -- here is probably our profile. So again when people start following you, they can see that you are -- your view. So you just upload the picture.
And then the final page here is the design page where you can use the default style. You can 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 it's saved as defaults now, and that's how you set it up.
And that's it, then just basically keep posting in twitters and letting people know what you are doing and make it as a consistent practice that you are doing with everything else, that you do everyday linking to sites and products that you are using and soon you may well have your own band of many followers finding you in the search engines because don't forget people like Google love Social Network. So you might find yourself appearing in Google and also the fact that people on Twitter might find your profile by doing searches and out in different information, finding you and following what you are doing and you could become the next Twitter for that Social Network, traffic videos called twitter.com.
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