ReTweeting Twitter Tweets and Your Associated Content Articles

Twitter is best described as micro-blogging. It's a one-line post of what you are doing at a precise moment, or have done that day-a summary of a hard day at work for instance. Most of my friends and family will have a following of only . . . friends and family. This is a nice and fun way to connect with your loved ones. But what if you have specific content such as articles you've written, a service or product like a book to advertise, and you need to have a wider audience? Can Twitter help?

If you are going to advertise yourself, try to keep your tweets personal. Personality can't hurt. I, for one, don't want my Twitter page to look like an infomercial or a list of advertisements. And I want my followers, which seems to be growing daily now, to really care or at least be interested about my tweets and think it would be worthwhile to click on posted links. My articles from Associated Content will always have a fun, personal tag line. If I have a slideshow about chocolate, I simply write: "gtargirl has some chocolate she'd like to share" and then post the AC link. Just my preference, I suppose.

I decided to see if joining the Twitter challenge would not only get my articles out to a wider audience but if I could find a down-to-earth group of people to follow me-people with the same interests. This takes a little time. Along the way, however, people found me and I'm not one to deny any friend requests even from real estate gurus or make-money-online self-proclaimed experts.

Twitter, unlike Facebook or social sites similar, didn't seem personal to me. There was no feedback from your followers. I'm still learning the Twitter curve, however, and observed other Twitters use the @ symbol with the name of another Twitter user typed right after it. Apparently, it's the way Tweeters communicate. There's a lot more Twitter research to be done.

My Associated Content page also received a few more followers, a direct result of Twitter use. You can also retweet content from other AC producers. It all adds to your popularity in the long run.

Recently, I learned that you can earn a nice paycheck from Twitter by retweeting other tweets. This might not be something you are willing to do, or your following might not appreciate, but you can control what you RT (retweet). If you're a very popular Twitter (or is that Tweeter?) you will be paid anywhere between a penny and $20-not bad. Our family has been touched by breast cancer so it was entirely appropriate for me to retweet a link about showing the pink ribbons on your site. If you're interested, log into your Twitter account and look for @paymetweets who you will have to follow in order to find retweets.

My Twitter following has more than doubled and my article earnings have almost doubled. With a little more work, wisdom and Twitter knowledge, I think this social networking can be very beneficial to get content out to more readers.