For all those that say "I don't want to tweet about <the fluff between my toes|what I ate for breakfast|what I am doing right this second|some other menial thing>" doesn't understand Twitter at all.
Twitter is a tool, and can be used very differently depending on who's wielding the tool.
It's an amazingly powerful tool to communicate with an audience, to market products, to get feedback and to get up-to-the-second information about topics that are happening right now.
Firstly to get everyone on the same page:
A "tweet" is a concise sentence or two, limited to 140 characters.
You can write your own tweets or 'retweet' (RT) other people's tweets.
Twitter accounts, when you tweet, start with the '@' symbol, followed by the name, eg @mjanthony.
You can send a direct (private) message to another Twitter account if they follow you.
A 'hashtag' is a hash followed by a word that is searchable, eg #therenovators. Whenever someone searches for that word, if you tweet with the hashtag, your tweet will appear in their search.
When you create a Twitter account, you start with 0 tweets, 0 followers (people who will receive your tweets) and 0 people you're following (people whose tweets will appear in your timeline).
You can start following other Twitter accounts, and when they tweet, their message will appear in your timeline automatically. So naturally, follow people who you find interesting. Don't follow the 16 year olds who babble on about nothing. Follow the tweeps that interest you.
You can't make anyone follow you, that's up to the individual, but eventually people may find what you tweet to be interesting and naturally follow you.
I can log into Twitter and scroll through my timeline of today and have all my realestate news, property information, jokes, interesting news articles and headlines in one place.
My account is
http://twitter.com/mjanthony . I have almost 800 followers as of writing this article, and when I glance through who is actually following me, they are mostly made up from people who are interested in property, because I naturally tweet mostly about property, including articles and news.
It's possible to use Twitter as an information-only resource, that is, not tweet at all.
You can link Twitter up to Facebook so your tweets appear in your Facebook status and vice versa.
There are multiple Twitter clients out there including Tweet Deck, so you don't have to do everything through a browser. Twitter also has clients for the Android and iOS smart phones and tablets.
I hope that at least one person finds this information useful. I'm a big fan of Twitter - it has its place in the social media spectrum.
Enjoy!
