I have to admit that I’ve pretty much resisted this entire twitter craze going around, but I think I may have been missing out. Every time I went on twitter I was bombarded with people selling this or selling that and I did not see a lot of sense in it.

I see people with 100s of thousands of followers and following just as many people. There is no way you can keep up with all these people so I did not see the point.

Well I broke down a couple of weeks ago and started twittering a good bit on an account I created. I started adding followers and in return they started following me. Well I normally use Live Writer to blog and there is a plugin for it that allows you to send every blog post to twitter. What I found was that people started coming to my blogs from my posts from me telling people about it on Twitter.

I’m not one of these people who push an affiliate program with every tweet. I’m sure these are the people who read some eBook on how to make millions with Twitter and now they are pushing a some money making link every chance they get.

Now if that is your thing, then who am I to judge, but its not the way I would do things. To me Twitter is a networking tool which you can use to build you brand and blog awareness. This may be a longer term approach and I may not get paid a couple of dollars tomorrow for my tweets, but over time using Twitter as a networking and brand building tool will produce more money in the end. I’ve always lived by the motto sacrifice today for tomorrow.

I recently created a twitter account for this blog. If you want to follow my tweets check me out at http://twitter.com/nononsenseIM I still need to create an unique background so I can brand it better, but I’m thinking of getting a new theme for this blog so I was waiting until after I decided on a theme for this and brand the twitter account the same.

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