Twitter is in the lead of the popularity board when it comes to social media sites.

Now twitter serves the basic purpose of every social site and virtual community out there, and that purpose is to connect the users, or to provide the hub or gathering place for its members to communicate.

Twitter specifically gives your friends a way to keep up with what you’re doing immediately. Your friends and fellow members of twitter subscribe to receive updates about what’s going on in your daily minute by minute life.

There are countless ways you can use this tool other than to just let buds know when you’re off to the salon, or hopping on a plane. I figured the best way to show all the capabilities of Twitter would be to just list them for you. So without further explanation here are some amazing possibilities of Twitter:

1. Of course, you can use it to keep up with what your friends and competition are up to

2. You can use it to update your friends on every little thing

3. To announce a special event - like a child’s party or a business seminar

4. To announce special offers - like a discount on one of your products or services

5. To do a pre-release campaign for a product or service your about to launch

6. To request feedback on a new site, product or survey

7. To direct traffic to an opt-in page

8. To build a relationship by giving a free offer like a contest or give away or free product

9. To build a network of business partners

10. To recruit for a charitable cause

11. Or to collect donations for a cause

12. To build your friend-base by directing to a myspace or facebook page

13. You can update you status in many ways including your IM program or cell phone

14. To make connections for a joint venture project

15. Add it to your blog or other social site profile page to have automatically updated content

16. Use the twitter wiki to keep up with applications and other advancements made by the twitter community

17. And many more

Those are just some of the ways my friends and I have discovered to use twitter in business and in life. This is a fantastic resource and I recommend you take a look, and test a couple options on this list. Here’s to your success!

About the Author
Melissa Mangrum
I am a seventh year internet marketer with my wonderful husband Jason, and our 3 little, irresistible noise makers. I have a life-long background in acting, music, and writing. I have written a salesletter that generated a quarter of a million dollars in less than two weeks. Also I put a product in the genius book of world records as the highest price auction ever ran on ebay. For more information on the many uses of Social Sites you can check out the new book at: My Social Marketer