5 Exciting Ways to Use Twitter
When I started using Twitter, I didn’t realize that the network’s potential actually goes far beyond simple micro-blogging. Unfortunately Twitter is often caricatured by quoting the typical “I just ate a burger ‘n twas good” guy. Without a doubt there are many Tweeps using the network to share personal, rather uninteresting information. However the following examples, showing exciting uses for Twitter, do make you think twice about not taking this social network seriously:
1. Use Twitter for journalism
Many online news resources and popular webblogs like RWW and Mashable have discovered the use of Twitter for journalism long ago. Twitter is simply a great platform to discover breaking stories, perform interviews and quality assurance as well as to promote your articles:
How to use Twitter for journalism
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2. Going viral on Twitter
Taking “promote your articles” a step further: There is no better way to grasp the power of Twitter than to have an article retweeted about 200-500 times in a couple of hours, making your site’s traffic explode all of a sudden. You do not even need to be “famous” or “known” in any way for this to happen. There really is no quicker and better way to spread the word about something and to generate a buzz than using Twitter’s virtual “flock of birds”. The traditional link sharing that used to be done by blogs a few years ago keeps on moving towards the popular micro-blogging service. Here is a great guide that explains how to get maximum exposure for your articles and potentially launch an “avalanche” of traffic:
5 steps to go viral on Twitter
3. Find a job on Twitter
Yes – believe it or not – nowadays Twitter is even used for hiring people and consequently you, too, can use it to find a job. Twitter has one great quality: It’s a platform where your potential employer can see at a glance how you promote yourself, how strong your network is and how you manage to put across valuable information if you’re limited to 140 characters. There are already many tools to e.g. help you write a Twitter resume and also many accounts of head hunters actively searching Twitter for potential candidates. Here is a post from Mashable to help you get started with your Twitter job search:
4. Immediately get an answer to your questions
Yes, we all know Yahoo! Answers. How would you like it though, if you were to receive the answer to any possible question instantly? Twitter makes it possible:
Or simply tweet your question and see how quickly your network reacts!
5. Get to know yourself better
Twitter can even help you to get information about yourself. The following service parses your tweets and lets you visualize the data to find patterns and trends that will help you get to know yourself better (moods, progress on certain topics, time sinks, habits, the time of the day where you are the most productive etc.):
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