Using Twitter to Promote Your Articles

Twitter is emerging as a very addictive communication tool for many people around the world. It has got a vide audience and people can network very fast and be in touch all the time. It makes it possible sharing news and views is faster than any media. Twitter is said to be micro-blogging service as you can send messages upto 140 characters long including the link.

Keeping in mind all the above advantages, let us see how a twitter account can do wonders i.e., instant increase in readership for our articles. Opening a twitter account is very easy, but creating and maintaining a network is what you have to focus. Bringing up a crowd of people who has the same likes and dislikes as you have is the key to success in Twitter. There are two categories of people to whom you will be networked and they are  “Following” and “Followers”. With the people whom you are following, you receive messages but they cannot read your messages. But your followers can receive your messages as well as send message to you.

As your list of followers grow, your messages will be read by more people. All the messages can accompany a link, which will be shortened by the system. Using this link option, you can promote the article to your followers. But never use this strategy very frequently as it can lead to Spam and people will ignore your messages. To make your twitter experience lively, send some other interesting topics in between that you may feel will be of interest to your network of twitters. While sending the article links put attractive captions for your articles to prompt people to click the link and them.