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If you are new to Twitter or you have just heard of Twitter, don’t be too concerned … yet! Twitter is a microblogging portal and it is exploding online.

Twitter starts with a basic question … What are you doing? And that’s it! When you type in your answer, you are tweeting or submit a tweet, an online text message on the largest chat room in the world. Its a microblog because you are limited to 140 characters per tweet.

Here are some unique characteristics of Twitter:

Highly customizable for personal or business presence.
Seek out, join or create your own network.
Everything is trackable and measurable.
Targeting is therefore very doable.
Online Continuing Conversation

Don’t do any planning. Just jump into the fray and start tweeting. Here are my first set of Twips or Twitter Tips:

Start Following People and they will follow back.
Use the Search Feature to use keywords for common interests.
Follow those people.
Follow those most followed and follow them to see how they engage and how you should engage in the conversations.
For business, think of ideas of how this medium can help to create, maintain and foster conversation about your products and services.
Get involved in the conversation … its a dance … feel free to cut in at any time.
Its different than your website … participate … its a two way conversation.
Like your website, measure your progress. Track your followers, your updates, your favorites. Think of it as a potential base of broad distribution throughout your chosen network(s).
Start on a personal, rather than a corporate level. But learn towards understanding the best way to establish a brand and presence on Twitter.
Show your commitment by customizing your home page … its extremely easy to do.
When you do go commercial, track and analyze everything. Ultimately, track for site visits from Twitter and ultimately your conversions that originated on Twitter.

Well, that’s just a start. Start Tweeting!!!

Arthur Cooper