To Tweet or Not To Tweet?: WHY you should make Twitter work for you and HOW

I'm sure you've heard of it. Twitter is the hottest social media networking service right now. If you don't have one, click here open up an account now! As we speak, millions upon millions of Twitter users are sending out tweets from something as big as current events, new gadgets, hot spots, latest gossips to even as ordinary as what you're up to right now. Either way, the end result is viral. You tweet, then your friend re-tweets your tweet if she likes it and her friends do the same thing and it goes on and on. In just a couple of years (Twitter was established in 2006) Twitter has it's own Twictionary (twitter dictionary)! and it's just mind-boggling.

The power of sharing is really optimized with Twitter. It's gotten so popular that even other social networking services are integrating their services with it. So applying this service to the max can help you make money blogging by getting the web traffic you need to your blog. With Twitter, you can easily update your followers with your latest blog post/articles that you would like to share via RSS services like Twitterfeed with a small appended bit.ly URL. So that means the more followers you have, the more exposure you get, and more people will end up checking out your blog.

So here's how to increase your Twitter followers:

• Set up your profile: Put up a brief but thorough profile about you and what you like so that people will know what you're into. Put in a link to your blog so people can visit your blog. Make it interesting by having your own Twitter background.
• Start following and follow-back: Start following your friends or people with the same interest. Follow your friends' friends and see how many follows back. The more people you follow, the more people will follow you back. But be careful of robot and spammers, though. It's just no fun following people who's just interested in selling stuff. Then you'll end up with a page full of ads and junk. It's just plain annoying.
• Tweet and re-tweet regularly: Tweet about whatever your heart desires. What you up to, how's your day, in the end you will get the hang of tweeting. Share fun-facts, hot gossip or whatever Justin Bieber's up to (apparently he's a hot topic right now). Whatever it is, remember to tweet humanly. No one likes their page filled with ads and spam and you won't like it too. So share something interesting that you think might be interesting to your friends too. If they re-tweet, more followers. Yay! Also, do your share of re-tweeting. Do a little reading of what your friends are tweeting about and share with others. 
• When it gets too many: Auto-follow and auto-find followers. When you reached the point that you have too many followers and a it's a bit hard for you to follow them back one by one, something like 'Social Oomph' can help you follow-back automatically. Or if you think that you would want to find more followers automatically, there are many services that offer auto-find for a small fee. Like 'Tweetomatic Profiteer' which automatically find people of the same niche without violating Twitter's follow policy.
• Make it viral: This is also something free you can try out to get more twitter followers. Although it might get you a handful of followers in a short period of time, it may not be 'targeted' but would still work in giving your blog more exposure.You can try it out here.
• Maximize exposure of your Twitter account: Put links to your twitter account on your Facebook, Myspace and also your blog to increase your exposure for your twitter account. 

I think that's pretty much it. For those of you who haven't tried this out, start your Twitter account now and get instant web traffic to your blog by building a base of followers. :)