A whole bunch of people out there think Twitter is all about kids telling each other what they ate for breakfast (you one of them?).
It may surprise you to find out that 34% of all users are over the age of 25. Teenagers make up 31% with the young 20-somethings taking up the remaining 35%.
So there you have it – according to Sysomos – 2/3 of all twitter users are over the age of 20 (that’s a few million) and a vast amount of these don’t tell each other what they had for breakfast.
What they actually do is share information and make new contacts.
And you should too. If you’re not on twitter already then I urge you to at least give it a shot.
The very worst you will get out of Twitter is obtaining a whole bunch of new contacts and new knowledge on topics you’re interested in.
The best you will get out of Twitter is all of the above but with new friends, business, and profits on top.
Here’s a working example : this whole post was kicked off by a weekly email I get of Alan Stevens.
Alan is a media coach who as worked with the biggest names in the business and I wouldn’t have known he even existed if it had not been for Twitter.
Alan’s emails to me are always full of useful content which is always up-to-date and I look forward to his emails because they teach me something new.
And as a result; if I, or one of my clients ever need the services of a media coach guess who I’d call first?
So there you go – with Twitter you can learn, connect and profit.
It’s also completely free.
So what are you waiting for?
You can go across to Twitter and sign-up right now and two great contacts for you to follow first are you’re truly – @richerimage and Alan Steven (@mediacoach)
I would also recommend you sign up to Alan’s weekly emails. It’s free and you can follow this link to sign up for the weekly media coach newsletter.
That’s all for now but stay tuned – I’ll be posting more of my experience with Twitter and how it can help you very soon.
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He gave me a price of £20 per widget.
I told him this wasn’t good enough.
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