I’ve recently started using a service called Twitter. I’m sure anyone reading this blog post probably knows about the service but I never know who might be watching. Actually to be honest I’ve had a Twitter account for almost a year now. I have simply not found any reason to use it or value in using it in the past.

I started with my old account and decided that I’d keep that one as private for my personal and close friends. So that being said, I created a professional profile to separate my personal and professional life.

My Twitter account will act much like a feed reader in regards to my blog. When I write a post I’ll update my Twitter with the topic and a link to the blog.

When I find an interesting article or post on a forum I’ll twitter a link to that article or may even quote parts of it that interested me.

If I’m doing research on any given topic you might find that I’ll include a twitter regarding the topic I’m researching.

So why am I doing this? A recent survey conducted by Rand Fishkin and the SEOMoz crew indicated that over half of the 3,000 survey takers hardly ever read blogs. For those of you that do read my blog from time to time I thank you. For those of you that don’t, if you have Twitter I’d like to invite you to follow me.

I’m doing this for awareness and branding purposes. I’m promoting myself and my blog through yet another marketing wheel. If I have 10, 100 or a thousand people following me then I now have an opportunity to update them on my happenings and possibly motivate them in some way or another.

Twitter is a social network after all and the key to a social network is being social. That being said… are you being social? I am!

John Jones

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