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It makes no difference whether your business is online or offline, you should be using Twitter marketing in order to increase sales and generate leads. Twitter is one of the most successful social networking platforms with millions of users. Each one of these users is a potential customer for your business.

Out of all the social sites, Twitter stands unique in how it operates. In order to use the site properly users must keep the character count of their posts to 140 per post. People who follow you can see the posts you make when they log into their account. If you make interesting posts, your Twitter followers will grow. There are several things you can do to get your follow count through the roof.

Twitter is a website that is a combination of social networking and blogging. With it, users are able to post short messages, called “tweets” for others to read. They can also follow the tweets of others, from friends and family members to celebrities. It is extremely popular, with people of all ages, with over one hundred million confirmed accounts. For first time Twitter users, and even seasoned veterans, there are a few Twitter tools to help you out.

If you are a beginner it can be easy to become over daunted. Once you begin your search of opportunities you will come across 90% of scams. It can be almost impossible first to differentiate between the legitimate companies and the scam artists.

Grab a pad of paper and a pencil (yes, your BlackBerry will work just fine, too). Now, make a list of everything you know about how to market a business via the popular social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Go ahead, list everything. Now, read back your list. What? You haven’t written anything down? Don’t you use these sites to stay in touch with your friends and family? Well, believe it or not, if you use it socially but don’t know the first thing about how to use it to make money, you’re on the right track. You can’t use this site the same way to make money as you do to interact socially. It won’t work.