A Renegade Cowgirl

When I first heard of Twitter, my thoughts were ‘not another thing to waste time with.’ I already had MySpace, Facebook, Hubpages, and Squidoo.  

 I signed up, read the basics, created a short Bio, and started posting what I was doing at that time. I didn’t really know what to expect and kept thinking this was kind of stupid. But after seeing what others were posting; not only their urls to their blogs and websites, but they were posting thoughts and events of everyday life…like a journal.  

But with Twitter, it’s just a few lines (140 characters) and this way it keeps it short and sweet. Or should I say, ‘Tweet’. Once I started twittering, I saw my same post up there until I ‘twittered’ again. Pretty soon people were following me. At first it seemed like they were just promoting their websites and I didn't see how this could really help me. But I realized that this is a social networking site and that you could post whatever you were interested in, whether it was business, hobbies, meeting friends or dating, posting to your family and close friends, or finding information.

Once I learned how to easily add my links and urls in my Bio, I realized that this could be a way to get my articles read or bring people to my Blog and website. I also could just make friends in here, telling them a little about what I was doing that day, without having to bombard people with advertisements and overloaded pages of information.

To me, it’s a bridge to other places; a very necessary tool to have today.

On Twitter there aren't many features or options, except on the Bio page where you tell a little about yourself with a picture and a link to a website, blog, or any article. There are no banner or google ads here. It's only a place to update your post about what you are doing currently.

I Get It

 You can link people to your favorite websites and articles, so Twitter can bring traffic to your friends. Over time you will have hundreds of friends and can keep in touch via their posts. At this point I’m following 26 people and have 46 people following me. It’s really a great tool for networking.

You can set it up to track just your friends, by making it private. You can then ‘approve’ them before they can become your friend. There is a setting on your page to make it ‘private’ or for ‘everybody’.

You can also put your Twitter Updates on your other sites, such as Facebook, MySpace, your Blog, or a website.

 It's a good time to be a Twit now...I can really see how this is becoming a great tool for networking, finding other successful business people, and ‘following’ them.

Twitter is one of the most popular micro-blogging sites online and thousands of people use Twitter to connect and communicate with others.

Even Barack Obama has a Twitter site. Follow him at: http://twitter.com/BarackObama

So I decided to follow him, and in a few hours I noticed that he is following me!

Click here to follow me on Twitter  http://twitter.com/herbcowgirl