How to Use Twitter on Your Cell Phone
Twitter is a microblogging social network that allows users to update their personal profiles with "tweets", or messages up to 140 characters that are sent to subscribers of that profile. The profile subscribers are known as "followers".
Who Uses Twitter?
Twitter is a service that has been described by some as a blog in between blogs. Twitter is for Internet bloggers on the move who want to share information immediately but lack the resources of a computer or Internet connection. Twitter allows users to link their Internet profiles to their cell phones so that updates can be sent and received in a format similar to text messages. All followers of a profile have the option of receiving the tweets of other users directly to their phone as text messages. This type of strategy has also be used by retail outlets to advise savings club members of sales and weekly promotional deals.
What
has made Twitter so popular is the mobility of the product. Techies and gadget
freaks were now able to stay connected to their blog fans 24 hours a day, seven
days a week. What once required an internet connection and portable computer now
only requires a cell phone signal and the ability to send a text message.
Can You Make Money from Your Cell Phone by Using Twitter?
Yes, multiple ways exist to monetize Twitter:
Individuals who want to advertise their services and products can send announcements directly to their followers, clients, or customers. Getting followers is as easy as inviting people to follow your Twitter profile online.
Another way to make money on Twitter through your cell phone is to create a website, blog, or social network that you can sell advertising space on through a service like Google Adsense. Using that site to attract readers to your Twitter profile will attract followers. Now you can send out tweets from your cell phone on topics relating to the subject of your site that will serve as constant reminders to check out your site. Creating this type of self generated buzz will aid in keeping the number of visitors to your site high. As long as that number is high, you have an increased chance of making more money from Google Adsense.
For Internet auction sellers Twitter can be used to announce new or on sale items. After you create a Twitter profile for your Internet auction screen name, start including a link to your profile in all of the e-mails you send out.
Are There Any Other Benefits to Using Twitter?
Twitter can be used by friends to update each other with events going on in their lives. Events can be exciting as a marriage proposal or new baby announcement, and they can be as boring as posting what you have for breakfast. This will not only bring friends together it will let each of them know what the other is doing before having to call the other person and asking what they're doing. Parents can also use this feature to keep an eye on kids who may be traveling abroad or just temporarily separated from coming home every night. Now parents don't have to excuse themselves from meetings just to make a phone call and they don't have to waste their cell phone minutes by calling their kids to check on them. The parent can just check their kid's Twitter profile and see what they're up to.
Twitter now also offers Internet addicted tech junkies the ability to pull away from their computer screens and get some sun light. Twitter users don't have to be connected to an Internet connection to find out what is going on with their favorite sites, celebrities, or news topics. All that Twitter users need to receive updates, or tweets, is a cell phone.
How to Enable a Cell Phone Tweeting Experience.
Receiving tweets on your cell phone is not an option that is automatic, it must be requested from Twitter. Linking your profile to your cell phone is a pretty easy process that only takes a few moments. Linking your Twitter account to your cell phone is an option that is given towards the end of your sign up process for Twitter. Linking your phone is as easy as typing your phone number into a text field. If users decide that they do not want to link their phone to their Twitter account, they can simply refuse the service at sign up. If it turns out that a person changes their mind and now wants to link their cell phone that person can simply log into their profile account settings and request the update. This feature works the same for people who decided to link their cell phones and Twitter accounts in the past but have now decided not to link their profile anymore.
As with any other service that connects to your cell phone, standard service rates apply when using Twitter, so check the details of your plan with customer service before you start running up your cell phone bill every time you send a tweet.