Twitip

Today Mark Ramskill (@ramskill) of SubHub and TalkContent takes a look at the amazing reach potential of Twitter, as a distribution mechanism.

These days ever increasing numbers of us are falling victim to information overload.

With a totally overwhelming number of sites and blogs on the web, all vying for our attention, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to both keep up and take part in ‘the conversation’.

While RSS feed readers have helped in many respects, with their ability to aggregate multiple sources and allow us to quickly assess what we want to read in more detail, there is still the inconvenience of having to find and add your own sites of interest and their corresponding feeds. There is also no means for immediate response or discussion.

Enter Twitter . . .

May I suggest, if you are fairly new to Twitter, that you read my TwiTip article, Using Twitter … ‘The Smart Way’ , to get yourself up to speed.

Over the last few months, Twitter has slowly but surely become my main source (or should that be fix) for quality information. Through applications such as Tweetdeck, I continually receive the very latest information (links, feedback and commentary) on my desktop, allowing for immediate digestion, review and onward distribution.

It’s like having my very own newswire!

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Today Mark Ramskill (@ramskill) from SubHub, takes a look at some of the steps that new Twitter users can go through to get going.

Twitter, having been quickly adopted initially by key influencers, has grown into a mass-market communication tool, with millions of users.

If you’re publishing content, undertaking online marketing, and looking to keep up with the latest trends in anything web related then Twitter should be featuring highly as a ‘weapon of choice’.

In this article I’ll be assuming you are new to Twitter, and that rather than wanting to use Twitter as a way of simply keeping up with friends, you want to use it as a tool for valuable engagement and maximum effect, avoiding the white noise that Twitter can also create if used incorrectly.

I call this ‘Using Twitter, the Smart Way’.

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