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Twitter Launches New Site, TwitterTales

This is a quick post today about a new arm of Twitter that has just been released and I wanted to share with you as a potential business building tool.

I have just been flicking through a blog that I like to read called Tech Crunch and found an article which I found very interesting about Twitter.

Twitter have launched a service called Twitter Tales where they ask users how they use Twitter to make it an awesome site.

They have broken it down into 3 categories, Life, Community and Humour and they ask for story or tales from these areas.

I have just been on the site and at the moment there is not a lot on there at the moment. The site only launch on Tuesday 17th August so it is still very much in its infancy.

I have checked the blog and they seem to be a bit quite about whether the tales will stay online and build into a list so we can search through or if the will preview on a day or week.

Time will tell but from what I have seen so far it is a service we can use to help solve problems through the articles we send into them. Yes you do have to send in your article to Twitter and they may post it.

It begs the question do we need another service like this? Facebook has Facebook Stories and Google has Google Stories all based around the same sort of theme.

However Facebook Stories looks by far a better package by allowing you to upload your story right onto the server and there doesn’t seem to be a limit on the stories you could upload, but please don’t quote me on that one.

I will be doing some tests on both systems over the coming weeks to see if they are new tools that can be used effectively or not. If anyone has any experience of these systems I would love to hear from you and share ideas.

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How To Use Socialoomph with Twitter

Welcome to my latest blog post where i want to show you a simple way to use Socialoomph to automate your Twitter time.

Setting up your Twitter posts is a great idea as it will let you get on with other things, also you can tweet while you sleep!

The system is FREE to sign upto, you can upgrade to to be honest I really wouldn’d bother as the FREE account will have everything you will need.

Enjoy the video and please leave feed back and share with your friends.

Have a great day.

I first set up my Twitter account around 2 years ago and to be honest I really could not see the whole point of it. I just didn’t get what was going on. People selling, pitching and promoting every 5 seconds. I mean how would anyone see my tweets and would they really care?

Move the clock forward 2 years to today and let’s be honest not much has changed. No I don’t mean I still don’t get it but have you noticed how much spam there is on Twitter?

Every 5 seconds or so the next big opportunity is posted to Twitter. Every now and then somebody posts some V.A.C (Value Added Content) which is a relief from all that spam. So really how hard is it to post V.A.C to your followers? Not really to tell you the truth, you can get at least 5 to 10 great post per day.

The first and this is a new one on me is to join a blogging tribe. Which is basically a group of people who work together to syndicate their blogs. I was introduced to this concept a couple of weeks ago and have been blown away by the results in less than 2 weeks.

Check out this great aricle by Jordan Schultz about what a tribe and blog syndication is all about. Also here is a list of Tribes to join.

Join all of the above tribes, watch the short introduction video and see how you can boost your blogging power and Twitter power.

The second is when you read a great article hit the Retweet button and share that content. Your followers will love this and see you as somebody who wants to share valuable information with them and not just how much money you can make from them.

The third and another that I get great response from is to post motivational quotes.  Where can you get these quotes from, well head over to http://motivateus.com/ or http://www.motivationalquotes.com/ to get a great selection of quotes you can post daily. People always love to read a good quote and you can also post them to Facebook as well.

I have also found that the time of day you send your tweets is important. I live in the UK so I tend to send my tweets between 6pm GMT and 8am GMT as I have followers from around the world but most are in the USA or Europe.

I love setting thing up on autopilot and I use Socialoomph.com which is very easy to use so you can schedule your tweets for the time of day that would suit you.

By doing these little things you will start to build that all important trust which you must have at the start of any relationship.

So get on Twitter and start posting great quality content.

Thank you for reading, I hope you found this post useful and please leave a comment.

Tristram Lodge