Twitter Apps Guide

You may not have heard of Blip.fm, but it’s gaining a real reputation as being the Twitter For Music. With the meteoric rise of Twitter, there are many other sites that are trying to achieve the same effect by making small variations on the Twitter formula. Blip.fm is one of the more successful of these, and it stands a real chance of being the next big thing in social networking.

How Does It Work?

Rather than answering Twitter’s question, “What am I doing?”, users of Blip.fm answer the question “What am I listening to?”. While there are many people who are interested enough in music to use the site just for this, the real secret behind the success of Blip.fm is that you can choose to “listen” to someone, and the site will play all their songs for you as they listen to them. If you Blip all the right songs, you can get yourself a real following, and you have your own virtual radio station. Of course, this works two ways – you are also able to listen to the selections that other people make.

If you are used to using Twitter, you will have no problem using this new social networking site. The two websites look strikingly similar, and both have the stunning simplicity which makes everything so easy to use. This is one of the reasons why everyone refers to Blip.fm as the Twitter for music.

Blip.fm was an offshoot of Fuzz, a site that helps bands communicate with their fans, and it was never expected to be that successful. Now, its popularity is such that Fuzz are focusing almost all of their resources on it.

Blip.fm And Twitter

Although Blip.fm is the Twitter For Music, they know better than to try to compete with Twitter. It comes with options to send out tweets about your Blips, allowing Twits to do online advertising for them. Let’s face it, if you’ve put in the time and effort to build up an army of followers on Twitter, you don’t want to have to start again on another social networking site, do you? If you can get the word out to all of your followers, you can get them listening to your music, and even migrating across to the new site to see what all the fuss is about.

This move has really helped Blip.fm’s popularity, making use of the easy sharing of information on Twitter to spread the word about their own site.

Unfortunately, Blip.fm hasn’t been around for very long yet, so there aren’t as many handy applications and tools like Tweetdeck, but they are taking steps to make it easier for third party companies to develop these tools.

In the twin worlds of social networking and micro blogging, new sites pop up every day that last for a little while and then disappear. This is a site that isn’t going to do that. Blip.fm is here to stay, and it truly is the Twitter For Music.

Twitter is already massively popular, and growing quickly, so it’s no surprise that many companies are looking into Advertising On Twitter. Many people on Twitter have a huge list of followers, and if you’re one of them, Beamagpie might be a good way for you to earn some serious cash. After all, advertisers see that huge list of yours as potential customers, and they are rightly prepared to pay for the privilege of advertising to them. Beamagpie is a cutting edge service that acts as the middle man, bringing together advertisers keen to get involved with Twitter and Twits who are looking to make some money from their Twitter reputation.

How Does Beamagpie Work?

The brilliance of Beamagpie is its simplicity. Advertisers pay you to tweet their adverts to your devoted followers, in the hope that those followers will go and buy their products. You can control how often the adverts are tweeted, so you can be sure that you’re not spamming too much or annoying your followers. If people start leaving and your Twitter Follower Ratio goes down, you can always cut back on the adverts.

What Adverts Will I Get?

You don’t want to annoy your followers by spamming messages that are completely irrelevant to them, so it’s sensible to make sure that you get the right sort of adverts. The companies that are paying for advertising on Twitter will feel the same way – they don’t want to pay for adverts that are irrelevant to the end users. Beamagpie analyzes the topics that you regularly make tweets about, and chooses the right adverts for you and your followers.

If you love to twitter about travel, the adverts that you’ll get will be based on this subject area. Your followers will be people who are interested in travel, so they won’t mind you telling them about a few deals, and the advertisers will benefit because your followers will be more likely to spend money on a holiday to their destination. Advertising On Twitter works better for everyone when the adverts are well targeted.

How Much Could I Earn?

At this stage, there’s really no way of knowing. The amount of money that you make will depend on a number of factors. Obviously, if lots of people are following you, you will be in a better position than someone with no followers. The sort of subjects you like to talk about will also have an impact on your earnings, because different areas are worth different amounts of money to the advertisers. If you built up a following talking about the best car insurance deals, this would be worth a lot more than someone who only talked about their friends.

Beamagpie also offers different payment structures that you can choose from, depending on what you think will give you the most profit.

Beamagpie is a new service, and only time will tell whether it will be successful or not. However, Advertising On Twitter is an exciting new area, and is likely to be successful in one form or another.

If you thought Twitter couldn’t get any better or more convenient, then you’d be surprised to know that you even use Twitter Via Email. Read that again. In other words, you can use your email account to send updates to your Twitter account. How cool is that? You may now be wondering that with so many Twitter Tools and application, why the main Twitter site should exist at all?!

The tool that allows you to do this is TwitterMail. This article will outline a step by step guide to using this very useful Twitter application.

1. Go to the TwitterMail website.
2. Sign up to the service by entering your account username, password and clicking on the “Click your TwitterMail address!” button. This service will then proceed to create and give you a TwitterMail address.
3. Once you’ve got this special email address, you can now start posting to Twitter Via Email. If you want to tweet a certain message, simply use your normal email account (whether it be Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo) and send a 140 character message to the TwitterMail address. The body of that email will get posted to your Twitter account. It’s also best to leave the subject line empty when sending this email.

As you can see, it’s relatively simple to use. In addition, it is a free service which means that you can try it out for yourself today and see the benefits. In some cases, the message you wish to tweet may be too long and you may consider using a service such as TinyPaste in order to shorten your message.

Posting to Twitter Via Email is no longer some fantasy or pipedream and can be very convenient for you.

One of the most important pieces of data that should interest you is the Twitter Follower Ratio. This refers to the ratio between the amount of followers and friends (the people you follow). The reason why this is important is because it illustrates the influence you have on Twitter.

You can use a Twitter ratio tool to work out your ratio. It’s as simple as typing in the username of your Twitter account into the box and clicking on the “Get TFF Ratio” button.

Here are the general guidelines to understanding your ratio:

• If your follower to friend ratio is less than 1, then this means that you are still looking to make an impact on Twitter. This is normal if you are just starting to use Twitter, however, if this ratio does not increase over time, then it could be because you are not being an attractive person to follow. Don’t forget that in social media, you have to socialize with other people to grab their attention and their love.
• If your Twitter Follower Ratio is greater than 1, then you are beginning to get respected on Twitter and making some waves. This is a good sign but you can always move to the next level and become a leader.
• If your ratio is greater than 2, then you are becoming someone people want to listen and becoming a leader in your niche. This is something that not many people achieve, but it is certainly possible! You might want to start dividing your followers into Twitter Groups to manage them better.
• If your follower to friend ratio is greater than 10, then you are a big superstar. You must be some sort of celebrity to reach this kind of popularity.

While you may not be pleased with your Twitter Follower Ratio, keep in mind that it can always be improved and that hard work and persistence will pay off in the long run.

If you’re an avid Twitter user and have thousands of followers, you would probably be looking to create Twitter Groups in order to be more organized. The reason why you would want to do such a thing is so that you can send messages to a certain group in 1 go instead of sending them one by one to each person. This is certainly more efficient and can save a lot of time and effort.

So how do you create Twitter Groups?

Fortunately, there is a great Twitter application just like Twitabit that does just that. It allows you to create groups and add followers to each group. It’s a very simple process. This is all explained below in the step by step guide:

1. Go to the Twitter Groups website.
2. Log into your Twitter account and follow @twgroups. This is a necessary step in order to register with the website.
3. Register on the site by clicking on the “Sign Up” on the left hand side.
4. Once you fill in your details, an email will be sent with a link to confirm your registration. In addition you should get a direct message on your Twitter account with the activation code to activate your account.
5. Log into your brand new Twitter Groups account.
6. Now you can either add followers manually or import them. If you wish to do it manually go to the “Followers” tab. If you wish to import them, go to the “Import Followers” tab.
7. Once you’ve done that, go to the “Groups” to create your groups.
8. After creating your groups, you should then click on the “edit” option of each group in order to start adding followers to those groups.
9. Now that your followers have been designated into different groups, click on the “Group Message” tab to type a message to send a chosen group or separate users.

It’s as simple as that. And best of all, it’s free. Start creating your own Twitter Groups today.