“Twitter is like face book. In facebook you have friends, in twitter you have followers. I have enough friends. What I need are followers.” – ellen degeneres at Tonight’s show.
The way she said that was hilarious. Both ellen and Jay Leno admitted that they do not know what twitter is, But they both have started using it. Britney spears has 778,866 followers and RyanSeacrest is having 428,471 followers. Even Barak Obama is on Twitter.Twitter seems like the “it” thing. It is Hip to have a twitter account. But not a lot of people know why we even need a twitter account.
That lot of people includes me too. I do not want to get cornered being a blogger who is not Twittering. So I have an account here. I normally follow all the people who are following me. I really don’t know why we should do this.
Sometime it gets really annoying. :D So I did a search on google for the term “why we need a twitter account?”. It didn’t help. If some body knows why we really need a twitter account, please let us know in the comments section. I would love to hear your views on this.
One thing I know is, if you are in twitter, you need to have a lot of followers. If you do not have followers, there is no point having a twitter account. I learned that the best way to get more followers is by following lot of other people hoping that they will follow you back. There are lots of new web sites acting as good intermediaries for this purpose.
So, let’s get some followers shall we?
1. We Follow
They have categorized twitter users based on their fields. You can easily connect with people who you like to hang with. Links to lot of celebrity twitter accounts are available here.
2. Just Tweet it.
This is a cool site which lets you add your name to a “twitter directory”. Others with similar interests can start following you and you can do the same. They have a very nice, easy to use interface.
3. Twubble.
This is great web tools which searches your friends graph and select the people who you are most likely to have a connection with.
I found these web sites thanks to the tweet I received from Mr Problogger, Darren Rowse. I guess that is one use of twittering. You get to meet lot of interesting people and can explore lot of new web sites as most twitters are posting links through tweets. I am all open to learn other advantageous of twittering. Pro Tweeters, please share your expertise.
Follow me on Twitter, Itz a hip thing to do :D And I will follow you back.
