10 Creative Tips to Improve Yourself on Twitter

Twitter, the revolution at micro-blogging, has been popular in various aspects of social networking. While the initial idea was just to connect to people, with time it has remained the same but only the magnitude has become very large scale. Now professionals, personal friend seekers, students and almost every one is attached to twitter for their own reasons. The immense benefit that twitter encompasses has a lot of sides that is not known to every body. Our quest is to give such 10 opportunities to you which you may have never heard of, but actually others have experimented with them and got success.

1. Get Help in Troubleshooting

Still the majority of us come to internet only to solve problems that we encounter in our system. Twitter is very good at that. You can ask others, follow others’ conversations or other things and solve a lot of issues through twitter only.

2. Free Market Research

Who needs to pay expensive market research companies to learn stuff about your latest product? Just send a link, a free sample or a short survey to your followers and watch the feedback flow in. I have had success with it. No reason why you can not. These may help you in many ways.

3. Save The Best Thoughts

We do happen to come across nice lines and jokes and fun quotes from people who we deal with real lives. But do you actually remember them all? With twitter’s favorite option, you can do that with ease. Now laugh at a joke and favorite it. Heard a very intellectual comment? savour it. In all ways, this favorite list can brighten up your mood when you are in need of them because they are from people whom you know not stars or super-humans. This makes anyone more comfortable and closer to the topic.

4. Provide Customer Support to Grow Your Business

Provide customer service. Wesabe, a personal finance site, has long used Twitter to respond to complaints and to let customers know when it’s fixing problems. Comcast doesn’t post, but it does use Twitter to respond to customers who have complained about the company. You can do so too. Using twitter’s excellent search engine you can provide people customer service to what they wish to. Get known, widen your business. All for free.

5. Share Ideas, Map Minds, Improve

You can share your ideas at any social networking sites. But not everywhere can you get so many live people there to share their ideas and discuss with you. Do it. Improve on the skills you lack and also ask them where you can grow more, suggest to them as well. This will surely make you more versatile each day.

6.  Competitor Tracking

Its said that “keep your friends close but your enemies closer” You can use Twitter to monitor the activities of your enemies or competitors without alerting them. Simply create an anonymous Twitter account and start following them. If they bad-mouth your company, or tweet about a product that may threaten your market share, you’ll know immediately. Trust me it helps.

7. Sport / Treasure Hunt Aid

With it’s 140 character limit, Twitter is the perfect medium to deliver clues for online and offline scavenger hunts and popular sports such as geocaching .

8.  Write a Book with Friends

140 Novel and Good Captain did it. There is no way you can not. Tweet with your friends collaboratively in writing a book. It will be hilarious at first and may be a serious issue at the end. If you find it interesting, I bet you will be glued to it. Start it on a lazy day and see how things work out. If its a success, well and good. You have explored another talent of yours which you might have never known.

9. Live Journalism 24*7

Twitter’s message size (140) limit prevents detailed coverage of events but it can allow you to provide real-time commentary which may help to spark further discussion or interest on the event as other Twitter users spread the message. Very useful for citizen journalism. If you are looking forward to an online news project or something, hone your skills and also get noticed quickly as a reporter through Twitter. This is gonna help you immensely when you start the actual.

10. Build a Twitter Application

Despite not being monetized yet, Twitter’s phenomenal growth has spurred the development of hundreds of applications that make money from Twitter either via advertising or donations. Why not build an application around Twitter and make your fortune?

- So are you ready to try any of these for your twitter? Happy tweeting.

[Thanks to: blog.tuvinh.com]