5 Tips To Enjoy and Benefit From Twitter
Twitter is a great place to make friends, socialize, find new content, and promote your own content. But, how do you enjoy Twitter and benefit from it? Here are 5 tips that will help you do so. And by the way, don’t forget to follow me on Twitter! 
1. Pass Good Content On
Many Twitter users tweet about great stuff (resource lists, articles, blog posts, etc). If you re-tweet (tweet it again) such content, you’re passing it on. That’s the beauty of it. By spreading great content, you’re helping people. People will acknowledge that. They will also see that you tweet about good content: content that will help them. They will most likely follow you.
Another benefit is that people will begin to re-tweet your stuff too. That shows that you have authority, and you will gain respect on Twitter.
2. Promote
It doesn’t hurt to promote your own stuff on Twitter. A tweet once in a while about a post that could be useful to people is a good way to promote. If you’ve been re-tweeting other people’s tweets, people will re-tweet your stuff too.
Here’s a personal example. Since about two weeks, I’ve been re-tweeting like heck. Any tweet that lands in my timeline that could be helpful to other people gets a re-tweet. Once in a while, I also drop in a tweet about a post on my other blog, Listfied. The result is that people re-tweet that tweet of mine, giving me more traffic, exposure, and increasing my authority on Twitter at the same time.
3. Help Out
Twitter is a community. And a community thrives when the people in it help each other out. You should do the same. Ideally, you should give more than you take. If anybody on Twitter asks for help, do you best to help them out. They’ll be grateful to you.
4. Acknowledge
If you find that someone on Twitter has tweeted about a really useful tutorial or article that solves a problem, or has done you a favour, don’t hesitate to thank them for it. Be grateful to them. Even flatter them 
This is a great way to build friendships with people on Twitter.
5. Follow!
Don’t be a recluse. Follow people on Twitter. You don’t have to follow each and every person, but follow those who have interests similar to yours, or tweet about good content. Try to follow as many people as possible each day. Along will adding value to your Twitter timeline, the people you follow will most likely follow you back. So it’s a win-win situation.
You?
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After reading this usefull article how to use twitter. I even see some sens in twittering. Thx a lot.
Thank you for tis pst. Like farbige above I think I will join Twitter, for some reason I have always feared joining up because it would consolidate my lack of knolwedge about all things technical!
But I’m going to go for it and follow your great advise, brilliant, thanks.
I work for a Chicago-based trade magazine that is aimed at food and beverage retailers. Our company is looking to set up all of its publications with several different social networking sites. One of them is Twitter. While I understand how Twitter works, I have yet to see a good example of a publication that benefits from it. Could someone explain the benefits Twitter would provide to a trade magazine?
twitter is cool stuff
thank you for this great twitter tips
Actually I do not use Twitter very often but I do know it is a great to tool to socialize and promote good stuff. I should spend more time on it and try to understand if somenthing good for my activity may spring from twittering!
Twitter has not made me much. Infact no program has ever made me enough, lol
But this guy is doing great. check out yourself:-
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Our company is looking to set up all of its publications with several different social networking sites. One of them is Twitter.thanks….
I am using twitter for promoting my self and my blog http://www.digmlm.com,
and it’s working I am reaching about 1000 followers who looks at mine place.
Will follow u on twitter!
great post about twitter – I have been trying to figure out a way to get more from my twitter account
Where’s your reTweet! button ?
Notice the options I have at My Opera http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/
I don’t put post notices in my Inbox if I can help it. I get too many.
What I use are many RSS options ( Feedly uses too much bandwidth for me to leave it on – a shame, as it’s really good ). Then I can choose what to do.
When I was running WordPress, I used their internal notifier. Google FriendConnect is even better because I can include nonBlogger blogs. Google Reader is funny : it should be great…but I don’t use it that much. iGoogle seems more fun.Orkut was something I just never really tried that much. Pageflakes has gone the same way…though Netvibes hangs on. Bloglines is another hit or miss option.
reTweet button. I’ll go back to sleep now. Don’t know what I was thinking. I’m quipping when tired.