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You no doubt know the power of Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon and several other Social Networking Websites online.

This writer has made many nice connections in the past year through the use of these social networking websites.  Probably my all time favorite is Twitter because it causes you to think and react in short bursts of creativity.  Sometimes just a simple little bit of humor, one liners, so to speak, are enough to bring people to your profile and then that creates traffic to your website.

When I write a post for one of my Blogs that I feel is worthy of some attention, I just post a tiny description of the post on Twitter with a link to the site and traffic builds.  The more traffic you get and if you have good content, the visitors will subscribe to either your email or rss feed and you have a potential customer.

Twitter is very easy to use, just get an account and start reading some of the tweets, and “Follow” some of the fellow posters that you are interested in and then maybe they will follow you back.  Soon you will have a hundred followers and then more keep coming.  Try to make your 140 character posts of interest or exciting and you will soon find many new friends.

I must admit that of all the social networking sites online I probably spend more time on Twitter then all the others put together.  I read in a recent report that Twitter’s subscriber rate more than doubled last year.  So if you are not a fellow tweet, then hurry on over and join the other rare birds.  They say that birds of a feather flock together.

You will want to get yourself a handle that is easily recognized and in some way will represent you at a glance.  Mine is linkmoneydotorg for obvious reasons, and my image is actually a favorite photo of my Dad when he finished digging the cellar for our house with a pick, a shovel and a wheelbarrow.  Dad would get a kick out of knowing that his picture is scattered all over the world.

If you have a website and you want to put a cute graphical link on it, then you can go to http://www.twitterbuttons.com/ and just put in your Twitter name and select from many of the nice designs available.

One really handy site that will help you keep up on the messages that your friends are posting as well as your @replies and direct messages is to use TweetDeck.  The normal Twitter page scrolls by quickly when you have many followers and people you are following.  TweetDeck handles this problem nicely.  http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/

Our next post is going to tell you about a place where you can go and see a list of social networking sites and also see if your handle of choice is available on all of them at one time.

Twitter is one of the most popular of all of the social networking websites, but in the next few posts we will be explaining what some of the others are and give our opinion of what the benefits of each are.

Come follow me on Twitter @linkmoneydotorg and I will follow you back.

Please feel free to comment here on this Blog about this Twitter post.