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Twitter is a popular microblogging service that helps people worldwide to stay in touch online with the latest events, information and interactive websites. Anyone can use Twitter to share quick messages. Twitter users are permitted to share links to whatever they find interesting, to promote their business or just to write something about a current activity. These messages appear on the profile page, being accessible to your followers and searchable on Twitter search.

Twitter can be used to meet people with similar interests and visions. It is also a very effective marketing tool. In addition, this social network helps you to save time and money, being free to use. Instead of sending mobile messages and calling everybody, you can just write some lines on Twitter.

Communication on Twitter is public- anyone can see what you do and the messages you send. However, you can opt for a private profile and share your thoughts only to those who are your friends. Don’t forget to build an attractive and interesting profile page!  If you go online, you can find a template that you can use to get a customized twitter page to attract the interest of other tweeters.

What about tweets? How do they work? Well, tweets are the messages posted by you (links, news and any other information). Tweets also appear on the personal page of your followers. As more followers you have, as more you gain.

Every time someone requests to follow you, you’ll receive a notification via email. Twitter users can accept, block or ignore those who want to follow them.

Besides the standard message, you have other ways to contact your followers. You can reply to their messages, “retweet” (repeat some information previously tweeted by another user) or send directly a private message to be read only by the recipient.

Twitter is very useful because it provides access to answers given by experts, allowing people to stay connected even while traveling. Any business or product can be successfully promoted on Twitter.  Those who have their own website or blog, usually put a link to the twitter profile to attract interesting followers.  Usually they will use a decorative follow me on twitter button that is linked directly.

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Hashtags are a useful tool that help you to organize and share your tweets with others. Just like adding keywords to a Flickr photo, hashtags allow you to group tweets together with others sharing the same tag. The result being topics of interest that are easier to follow.

The use of hashtags evolved during the 2007 San Diego forest fires when #sandiegofire was used to identify updates relating to the disaster.  Recently Twitter and the hashtag #iranelection played a crucial role in disseminating information in the ongoing controversy over the disputed Iran elections. Twitter has been so critical for communication in Iran that they rescheduled maintenance to occur in the middle of the night in Iran even though this meant Twitter was be offline during peak hours in the US.

However hashtags are not all political. Companies are using hashtags as a way to promote events and product launches in context, and also as a communication tool for remote employees to stay on top of relevant information. Hashtags can also be used to share notes. For instance, conference goers can use a common tag so that all notes can be easily grouped together and reviewed by those present and absent.

Hashtag etiquette is still evolving so be sure to tag with discretion.(Click here for more information on Twitter Maketing)

How To Use Hashtags

1.) Follow @hashtags on Twitter. They will follow you back automatically, and your hashtags will be tracked.

2.) Use hashtags to precede key words in your tweets. Be sure to check Hashtags.org to see if your topic already has an established hashtag.

3.) Track the tagged conversations that interest you. Topics can be found via the search.twitter.com feature. As well, valid hashtags are indexed at Hashtags.org, organized by tag, and available as individual RSS feeds. Which means the conversation can be accessed even without a Twitter account.

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