I have used Twitter with Squidoo and with Hubpages. Everytime I update my lens (Squidoo Website) I can send a tweet. Still, I have found that twitter is not a big driver of traffic. It is a way to get a lot of backlinks, which could improve pagerank, which could bring traffic.

So, Twitter is a service that may do great things for someone who is super active with lots of followers. I don't know that it will help the average Joe, or me, the average Gary. My view of Twitter is that it is good for announcements. It may be a way to communicate online, replacing a comment thread. (Update: Scroll down to update and see also http://featuredusers.com/referral/bgamall)

Squidoo has this new thing where they post comments which are really Twitter comments, on a new type of lens (Squidoo website). That may prove to be more helpful in getting your site noticed than other Twitter activities. I may go play around with that or I may not. In some ways I think that Twitter is a bit of a fad, though I have been known to be wrong before. It is very difficult for me to use 100 words or less to express a thought. That causes Twitter to drive me Tweeting mad. Just kidding, I'm a kidder. Well, it is annoying anyway.

Maybe someday you will be able to Tweet your ride, ha! Oh, I digress with a lame joke. I have decided to provide a few links to sites that seem to work even better than Twitter regarding traffic. One will give you immediate traffic and the other will give you traffic down the line as their directory gains prestige. Both will help you with backlinks and they are not so scattered as Twitter. I would think you would have to be a bird brain to be really successful on Twitter. Get it? Bird brain, lol. Just checking to see if you are paying attention!!

While I have talked a lot about Squidoo here, and I so like the people there, I have really great things to say about Hubpages because of the fairness in payment planning with Hubpages that I think is more ethical (if you have an adsense account), and about the faster loading of pages, and about the great questions I can try to answer like this one about Twitter. So all you bird brains out there, shake a tailfeather with Twitter. I will stop by once in awhile and see what is happening in Twitterland.

I have provided other views on videos below, and if you have a gazillion followers you may get a few people to your site if you promise them wealth and happiness and enhanced body parts.

Update: While I still believe that twitter for the majority of people is used as a social medium, for a growing number of people it is used as a way to share websites, ideas, marketing, etc. I found the lazy man's way to get thousands of followers. Go to Tweepme.com and sign up. Then pay the one time fee of about 20 bucks and you will gain thousands of followers and generate some traffic to your hubpages. I highly recommend this for anyone who is not a celebrity or a major generator of traffic elsewhere. I have shared my sex advice websites and fashion hub websites and celebrity websites, as well as my political hubs and have received traffic.

Make certain that you do not follow people too fast or you will have to get followers (added automatically with the Tweepme service) to balance out before you can follow again.