Twitter - What The Hell Is That?

I recently was talking to some of my non-internet marketing friends.  Of course with any group of young people you have the facebook users, but we stumbled onto the topic of Twitter?

The inevtable question came up of "Twitter, what the hell is that."

So I explained twitter is simply a social networking site that alows you to follow people you know or admire and allows people to follow you back.  When you follow people, your homepage will display updates from them, such as what they're up to, reading, creating, or anything.  The interface is similar to facebook's update screen.

It is used by many marketers as a way to quickly get a message to their prospects, and people spend more time just checking updates than they do on e-mail nowadays.  The trick behind twitter is that all messages must be under 140 characters, this is done because that message length mimics normal human conversation.

You can often times find your favorite guru talking to another guru about their revolutionary new product, and b in theknow before anyone else.  Some marketers have used it to generate thousands of leads at a brand new site before notifying their e-mail list or having any jv mailings.

The true power of twitter is found in it's viral capabilities.  It allows people to retweet your messages and notify their followers.  For example, if guru a has 10,000 followers and he tweets about his new project, and guru b picks up on that tweet and retweets it to his 100,000 followers, guru a has just leveraged te efforts of guru b to 10x his exposure, all for free.

Many twitter applications hav come out recently allowing for very creative marketing techniques to be employed, such as people offering discounts on their products to people who tweet aout the product, or even software that let's you follow massive amounts of people and develop a huge following in a short time.  Even cell phone companies have apps now that allow you to access twitter from anywhere, making it possible to even launch a product as you wait for your plane to take off (very interesting story by a friend of mine.)

So let me tell you, if you are not building a following on twitter right now, you are missing out big time.  Opportunities to get in this early on something so powerful come once in a lifetime.  So right now I want you to head over to twitter.com and sign up for FREE and begin learning your way around and start following your favorite gurus, trust me they all have accounts.  By the way you can begin by following me at http://twitter.com/Sylvan_Noel .

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Sylvan Noel is an accomplished network marketer with experience in both direct sales and mlm

he shares his information, theories and reports freely at both

http://blog.sylvannoel.com and http://forbiddenmlmsecrets.com