Using Twitter To Generate New Content
If you have been paying attention at all to current trends in social networking, you would have realized by now that Twitter is one of the biggest Internet phenomena in recent memory, possibly rivaled only by Facebook. In fact, both networks have managed to surpass email in popularity. We’re not going to go into the many reasons why you should take up Twittering since there are many other web site on the Internet where you can get such information, nor are we going to cover how Twitter can help you increase traffic to your web site, since those issues are fairly common knowledge. Instead, this article will be devoted to how you can use Twitter to generate fresh new content for your blog, while keeping your readers engrossed at the same time.
The use of Twitter as a way to generate content is based on the principle that forging relationships with actual people is an effective way to generate new blog content. Like all bloggers, you may have run into those days when you simply couldn’t come up with anything interesting to write about no matter how hard you tried. In fact, struggling to come up with something to write is likely to backfire on you, and may just drive your muse further into hiding. In times such as these, Twitter may just be able to help.
How can you do that? One way is by asking your blog readers a simple question pertaining to your blog or virtually anything you can think of, provided it is somehow related to your blog’s topic. It may be as simple as how they are dealing with the present economic crisis, or their thoughts on a particular subject. You can then take all the responses that you generate, post them on your blog (make sure you announce your intention to do so first), and perhaps add a bit of commentary to each response. You can then send a thank you “tweet” to each reader that responded, which includes a link to the post. This simple tactic may be enough to get you an interesting new article and a healthy amount of traffic.
Taking this idea further, you can also approach a recognized authority in a certain field–preferably one related to your own blog’s niche–an ask for an interview, the results of which will be published on your blog. If you choose your interviewee and subject carefully, it will appeal to a large majority of your readers, each of whom you can make an announcement to on Twitter. You can even make an announcement regarding the upcoming interview early on as a way to drum up reader interest for the future date. This technique is almost sure to generate loads of traffic for your blog, which in itself may lead to a lot more interesting topics.
With these two methods, you can effectively generate loads of new content for your blog using Twitter. The means are available to you right now, and all you have to do is take advantage of it.
