Twitter - Internet Network Marketers are TwitterPated

Twitter is a free micro blogging service that allows users to send updates to those people that follow them. Simply create an account and begin providing your Twitter web link.

Twitter is another social media networking tool, especially for online network marketers who want to increase their "point of contact" with their audience, create a larger following and, if using the attraction marketing method, it's another way to brand oneself.

Twitter updates are displayed on the the user's profile page. These updates are delivered to those who signed up to receive them.

With new varieties of social media gaining momentum, it's important to keep in mind the goal, or purpose of social media, web 2.0, especially for online marketers. It's main focus is to build an online community of people who share many of the same interests and activities, or who are interested in following the interests and activities of others.

Twitter is unique because it allows users to send text-based updates, known as "Tweets" to one's followers. It's also known as micro-blogging.

Imagine if you didn't have to attend the toast masters meetings, or the BNI group. Imagine if you could do all your networking right from your home computer. Twitter offers this kind of networking reach.

If you are building your business using a new network marketing model called attraction marketing this is yet another way for people to have instant access to your value-based content.

The high-touch that Twitter offers further enables trustworthiness, which is the first step in building any business. If trust is built, it is easier to put offers in front of one's audience.

Another benefit would be the better opportunity for locating (or being located) high quality prospects so you can generate more leads and sales. Twitter is another tremendous and powerful tool to master and use to build a growing audience (which can be compared to one's list).

Twitter could be endemic of what is curtailing many online dreams of success. With so many distractions and online noise, it's important to build a foundation of content, and fully understand how to offer value.

To do this, internet network marketers must have a "game plan," an approach or understanding of the internet marketing hierarchy. Adding too much to one's internet marketing plate can keep people from building their business. It's certainly a fine line that every marketer must have drawn for themselves prior to making the leap into Twitter (or any new thing) simply because the next big name has.

The shortest distance between two points will always be a straight line. For internet network marketers still in the process of learning and discovering those lines, more harm than good can be done by joining Twitter - or whatever social marketing craze the "Top Teachers" are promoting too soon before having built a proper foundation of attraction.

Harnessing the power of Twitter, and riding the wave of Twitter's popularity is something to utilize sooner than later.

I had reached that point in my own internet marketing maturity where I was ready to take the next step and begin expanding my marketing reach. Twitter was a logicial choice.

Twitter is fun, and in only 24 hours, I had 80 followers. I didn't post any links or pitch my business, I just observed, and I began following internet network marketing friends, and people whom I respect, or want to know more about.

I can see how this is going to help me build my business by extending my marketing reach to more people. It's a tremendous marketing tool.