Twitter 101: For Beginners

So, you've finally signed up for your twitter account, and you are probably wondering: what now? How does this work?

I thought I'd write a quick guide to twitter, for the absolute beginner, to lay down some of the basics of this fast paced social platform. This isn't necessarily targeted to marketers, as much as just beginner twitter users.

So what's the point?
That's probably your first question. Twitter is all about...

I see a lot of threads on here where people are either asking how to make money on Twitter, or how to drive traffic to their site from Twitter.

It's actually very simple, far more than most people think.

Rule #1: Give your followers something of value.

For some reason this key component is left out of most people's twitter strategy. They create tons of accounts. They get software to add tons of followers. They set up autoresponders that DM everyone...