Twitter is actually not too difficult to learn for any beginner. The only problem stopping beginners becoming expert is the oversupply of information on the topic on the Web which simply leads to confusion. This article hopes to help beginners get started.

Article directories such as Ezine Articles and Articles Base contain thousands of articles which serve to teach the basics of Twitter and social media in general. If you enjoy reading and want to access a big source of information, then article directories will be your kind of thing.

In addition to article directories, there are many people out there who blog about their experiences on social media sites such as Twitter as well as offering to teach beginners different things. The best social media site out there by far is Mashable which not only provides you with a Twitter education but also lets you know of any cool Twitter applications or functions that get released. Mashable is almost always the first to cover any new developments in the world of social media.

If you are not a big fan of reading, then articles and blogs would not have appealed to you one bit. On the other hand, video tutorials will be appealing. The beauty of video tutorials is that chunks of information which may take hours to consume can be consumed in a matter of minutes with video. Hence, you can learn at a much faster rate and become an expert in little time.

Once you’ve reached that stage, you can go out and teach other beginners how to use Twitter. You may even earn some extra income by doing this. There certainly won’t be a shortage of beginners out there to share your new found knowledge and skills with.

At the end of the day, the way you choose to learn Twitter is up to you. It’s all a matter of working out whether you prefer reading or watching and how much time you have on your hands to make a wise choice.

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Martin Sejas is the owner and creator of Twitversity, an education course which uses video tutorials to teach Twitter for beginners. Download the introductory lesson for free.
http://www.twitversity.com/

Today was a big day for Google, Bing, Twitter and Facebook

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To quickly recap:

Bing announced they have made a deal with Twitter AND Facebook to pull their updates into the SERPS (search engine results pages).

Hours later Google announced they too have a deal with Twitter and will be delivering Tweet feeds in the SERPs.

This is exciting and interesting and it confirms one thing: SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Social Media are partners in your success. You shouldn’t neglect either.

No one knows exactly how this is going to play out yet but we’ve all started preparing for it already. Off the top of my head, here are some tips to help you prepare.

Since we don’t know how they will sort through the massive volume and pick the tweets to return in the results, we don’t know exactly how to give our tweets the best shot at getting picked up.

Let’s look at a little logic and a little Google knowledge.

They like history and they like quality. They also like volume.

So, get an account now if you don’t have one already. Get as much history in as you can. Accounts that have been around longer with more tweet history (and more followers) may fare better. (PLEASE don’t go overboard – the last thing we need is people to start keyword stuffing mass volumes of tweets).

Tweet often but keep it natural – and tweet quality. Tweet when you have something to ask, share or teach.

Use keywords – but don’t stuff with keywords. If the tweets are about your industry, you should be using keywords naturally anyway.

If you are going to retweet your messages at different times of the day to be more likely to catch your audience, make sure you vary them a little bit (and again, don’t go overboard).

Use links in your tweets back to your site (to relevant content on your site) and share the link love – link to other quality sites out there. Make sure you use your keyword in your bio and if you are just setting up your username, maybe in your username too? This may or not help. Again, I must say – do not stuff keywords anywhere – not in tweets, not in your bio, not in your username.

This is a good thing, but if people abuse it and bring the overall quality of Twitter down, we will all be sorry.

If you have a feed that sends your tweets to Facebook, or your Facebook status to Twitter, you may want to consider turning it off. If you have the same message in both places you are missing an opportunity for Bing to pick up both. If they are unique, you have 2 chances to get in there!

So, get tweeting and Facebooking! It’s going to be a fun ride!

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Jennifer Horowitz, Dir. of Marketing for http://www.EcomBuffet.com, has written a book on SEO and has been published in many SEO & Marketing publications. She is the editor of Spotlight on Success: SEO & Marketing newsletter. Over the past 10 years Jennifer’s expertise in marketing & Search Engine Optimization has helped clients increase revenue. Follow Jennifer and stay current on SEO, marketing, social media & more. http://twitter.com/EcomBuffet