5 Twitter Tips for Professionals

Twitter – a well known micro blogging platform, which allows you to publish short messages of less than 140 characters through different mediums like IM, Web, and Mobile Phones.

I am using twitter for past few months and also exploring ways to utilize it more. Let me share some useful ways to make use of twitter for your personal and professional benefits.

1. Let your Micro Blog be your professional promotion agent. Share your personal and professional updates – including learning, fun (ex: photos) and work related information.
2. Create a professional profile with LinkedIn and connect your twitter account with it. Whenever you tweet with keyword #in. – the twitter message will also appear in your LinkedIn profile as status updates. In this way, your LinkedIn profile can have your professional update message – which helps to build more network and business.
3. Tweet about your Blog post and promote it. You can also tweet NEWS related to your professional Life. Create short links of interesting websites and share them. Subscribe to RSS news feeds and share interesting news with your twitter network. You can do all these from your mobile device too. (Ex: Using Snaptu)
4. Build a network with your professional line and participate in discussions. Create new discussions and get feedbacks from other followers. Re-Tweet and Respond to members.
5. Use Twitter Tools – there are many browser based plug-ins available (For ex: Search, Polls, Directories, etc). Use them and create any interesting content within 140 Char limit. Connect your Twitter RSS with Word-Press or any CMS based blogs – and show your tweets as Micro Blog posts.

Let twitter be your professional and personal agent to communicate with outside world..!!