how to use twitter for traffic

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read each others' updates, known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters, displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to other users - known as followers - who have subscribed to them. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. The service is free over the Internet, but using SMS may incur phone service provider fees.

Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet",as it provides the functionality—via its application programming interface (API)—for other desktop and web-based applications to send and receive short text messages, often obscuring the Twitter service itself.

Through SMS, users can communicate with Twitter through five gateway numbers: short codes for the United States, Canada, India, New Zealand, and an Isle of Man-based number for international use. There is also a short code in the United Kingdom which is only accessible to those in the Vodafone network.

Estimates of the number of daily users vary, because the company does not release the number of active accounts. In November 2008, Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research estimated that Twitter had 4–5 million users. A February 2009 Compete.com blog entry ranked Twitter as the third most used social network, which puts the number of unique monthly visitors at roughly 6 million and the number of monthly visits at 55 million,however only 40% of users are retained.In March 2009, a Nielsen.com blog ranked Twitter as the fastest-growing site in the Member Communities category for February 2009. Twitter had a monthly growth of 1382%, Zimbio of 240%, followed by Facebook with an increase of 228%
using twitter for marketing
well using twitter for blogger worths alot.all you have to do is to make more and more people your followers and keep sending tweets regarding updates about your blog..quite plain and simple.....:-)
so all you bloggers start following each other in twitter.here is my twitter link.click on the banner below



Twitter today has more than 6 million registered users and daily around 55 million unique visitors and more than 1 billion tweets are posted. It is used by individual, celebrities (Barack Obama, Shaquille O’Neal and etc), companies (Dell, Zappos and etc). Now question, Twitter is a serious platform for publishers to monitor?
The reality is that Twitter is already starting to have a business impact. Dell sold more than $1 million in products via twitter, while companies like Comcast to Zappos have found twitter a compelling way to provide customer support and improve their corporate reputations. Twitter impact for marketing is smaller than Google programs however its result is better than FaceBook.
Twitter is a tool for “micro-blogging” or posting very short updates, comments or thoughts. In fact, since twitter was designed to be very compatible with mobile phones through text messages. Each update is limited to 140 characters. Truly, it is a micro-blog. We can define twitter in another way, twitter is like a cross between instant messaging (IM) and a chat room, as it is open forum, however there is restriction to send message or read message those are connected to you.
How to use twitter for marketing
1- Engage yourself in social media:
As everyone knows social media is great way to have a conversation with market and find prospects for your business. However being CEO or executive of company especially larger or global company, it’s really hard to do blogging or answer of messages, find request on face book, building network and etc. But twitter is designed in a way that busy people i.e. CEO or founder who always on road meeting with people, can place their interesting comments / opinions as tweet on their market.
2- Keep in touch with blogger / media
Twitter is easiest way to follow influential people in the media, blogging and etc. You can see how often they update their blogs and what they are doing and what their new plan.
3- Brand/Company Monitoring:
Now a day most of companies are using twitter to improve their brand using feedback from their followers.
4- Special Announcements:
Deals & Sales, Most of companies like Dell, using twitter to announce their new sell and deals. They are getting really good response from twitter.
5- Live updates on events or conferences:
Companies, bloggers, singers and other organization using twitter to give live updates about their upcoming events and conferences.
6- Promoting blog articles:
webinars, interesting news and more, Its really easy to post a link on something in twitter, mostly blogger post their new post, news and webinars on twitter.


Step by Step Guideline for using Twitter:
1- Signup and post your profile, in signing up important aspect to make your twitter for your brand either it will be company branding or personal branding.
2- Write some update, once you are on twitter, post your updates using 140 golden words. Post your blog latest post written by you or if you like others online, mention an interesting thought you had, or tell what you are doing right now, just write something. Here if you plan to use some link then you TINYURL, HOOTSUITE or anyother site which give you tiny URL. It will save your space of 140 words.
3. Invite Friends, before browsing friends over twitter, invite your friends those are registered with you over YAHOO, GMAIL or another email account. You can do it using twitter find friends -> invite by email. Now you start finding friend over twitter there is multiple ways either you follow your friend and in his/her profile available follower start following them. Other option to search your interest, keywords through search.twitter.com and follow these users.
4. How to “Chat”, Using the @ symbol before someone’s twitter username is how people have “conversations” in twitter. This makes their username a link to their profile so other people can follow the conversation (sort of) in short; its public broadcast IM service.
5. Monitoring
• Monitoring conversation: you can monitor, conversation / discussion about any user, company either you join or not using @username through search
• Monitor event/conference: As per twitter standards # is used for event or conference so it’s easy to monitor your company or others event.
• you can search anything or your interesting keywords
6. Monitor you URL in tweet: If you are posting tweet with URL you must like to see how many followers click it. There are different tools available those provide two features one to convert your URL into tiny and also helpful to track your click like hootsuite.com.
7. below is a link to the latest earning system of twitter.click below