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Twitter Marekting Tools

  1. Hash Tags help people find your tweets on specific topics. They are a way of adding meta-data to your tweet to group tweets of a similar topic together. Use a # mark followed by any word, with no spaces, such as #swineflue. Special search engines like Hash Tags index and organize tags and help spread your tweet around.
  2. TweetDeck is a desktop client that helps you manage twitter. It separates our your general tweets from those you are mentioned in from direct messages. It checks for new tweets on a user adjustable schedule and has a discreet onscreen notification when something new pops up.
  3. Twitter Search do a quick search for your topic to find new users to follow.
  4. bit.ly sure there are a lot of URL shorteners out there, but bit.ly also features link tracking. Sign up for a free account and start collecting metrics on the links you publish in your tweets.
  5. TwitterBerry keeps your up to date when you’re on the run.

Thoughts

Things too often repeated are seldom understood.

Twitter as marketing tool

What do middle seats on airplanes and the current recession have in common? New blog post: http://tinyurl.com/ca35fp

This is a great example from Hugh of using twitter to drive traffic to your blog.