What exactly is twitter? Why is it so popular? And should I be using it for my online business?

Great questions! All questions I had too, BTW. So let me give you some answers.

Twitter is like a mini-blog. With Twitter you can keep people informed on what is going on in your life, without spending a lot of time creating a formal blog post – not that creating blog posts is that hard anyway – but Twitter makes it easy.

Quick posts about what’s happening in your life can be very useful. For example, you can very quickly and easily tell the people in “your world” that you just bought a new car and you’re crazy about the color or “that you thought the referee just made a super bad call on Monday Night Football .

Twitter is perfect for keeping people informed on what you are up to without taking a lot of time to do it.

The really cool thing about Twitter is you can follow people and have followers. You are kept up to date on the people you are following and the people following you are kept up to date about you.

Can you begin to see how this could apply to your online business? You could instantly let your customers, and potential customers (your Twitter followers) know about your latest product launch or affiliate promotion.

I think one of the biggest advantages for us “online entrepreneurs” is the ability to link Twitter to our blogs. I learned about this from my good friend, and blog expert, Yvonne.

You do have a blog, don’t you? If not, click here.

Yvonne was doing some work on my blog and also set it up so that every time I make a blog post my Twitter followers are notified.

And if that isn’t cool enough, every time I post something I seem to get more followers! Twitter can be very viral, in a good way!

BTW, if you need a blog expert comment to this post and I’ll hook you up.

So there you have it. The quick 411 on Twitter. Be on the lookout for additional articles I’ll be posting about Facebook and Linked In, as well as more info on how to use Twitter for online success.

And, if you follow me at http://www.twitter.com/DelLewis,  you’ll know exactly when I post the new stuff 🙂

To Your Success,

Del