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How can Twitter be used to help spread the word of your website or blog? Today Jeff Printy, Creator of Write or Die (follow him @DrWicked.

Twitter is one of the most satisfying ways to spread your website or idea. In addition to referrals, you can also gain loyal users, expert opinions, and possibly friends. It’s unlike any other medium in its ability to propagate interesting things. Word of mouth has always been the best advertising and Twitter is the best vehicle on the internet for word of mouth.

Here are some things you can do to get people Tweeting about your site.

1. Learn to explain the concept of your website in 140 characters or less.

Less than 100 characters if possible, to leave room for the URL. The second part of this is to pay attention after the launch not to just who is Tweeting, but how. If people are describing your site in a different way than you are, that give you a good idea of which parts they find useful. This is honesty that you cannot buy with market research.

2. When describing your site, leave something to the imagination.

Give Twitterers a reason to click and find out more. My tagline is “If you stop writing, there will be consequences,” that’s 46 characters, which leaves me more than enough room for the title of my site and the URL.

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More and more Businesses are getting onto Twitter. The word’s out – but so many businesses get it wrong. In this post Aira Bongco (@airabongco) shares some tips especially for businesses wanting to use Twitter effectively. Image by photoj :-]

You may have seen a lot of companies using Twitter to promote their products and services. Some do it discreetly by sending in various links to your direct message box while some generally tweet their website links on a constant basis. However, these people got it all wrong. We, Twitter folks, view these promotions nothing more as spam. Trust must be built from the ground up in Twitter. It’s a social networking site. It is not called “social” for nothing.

Here are some tips to rub your Twitter followers the right way. Soon you’ll find out how loyal and supportive these people can be if only you took the time to get to know them.

1. Be more interested in helping than making money

Twitter followers are people. They don’t have dollar signs plastered on their foreheads. Help these people out and they will help you back. They may not always have the money to purchase your products but they will happily retweet a product for you.

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