How to Twitter?

This week’s “Quick Tip” of the week is really not teaching you anything, as we are hoping to learn from you.

As many of you know we are still very new at this Twitter thing, and to be honest we still really don’t know what we are doing when it comes to utilizing Twitter.

Since we added our Twitter account we have tweeted several of our posts, as well as tweeted many blog posts that we have read on other sites. But beyond that, we are a little lost and would love some help so we can catch up with you 21^st century movers and shakers. I am sure there has to be some of our readers that are in the same shape as us, but are just afraid to ask for help.

I honestly have no idea what the best way to actually check for new tweets is? Do most of you have your Twitter account hooked up to your phone or do you just post and check your tweets from Twitter’s home page? I am worried if I connect it to my phone that I will be bombarded with tweets that I can not keep up with, as well as go over my monthly airtime usage on my phone.

Also, as of me writing this… we are only following 35 people. How do you possibly keep up with tweets if you are following hundreds or even thousands of people? I just don’t get it. How often do you check your account… every few minutes, every half an hour, every hour?

How about posting on Twitter? How often do you post and is it usually business related, or do you tell people when you are eating and sleeping as well? If so, do people really want to know that stuff?

I just don’t know what is the best way to utilize Twitter?

Can you please give us some pointers in the comment section below? (The more comments the better)

What’s New at MakingMoneyOnline.com?

It’s Sunday afternoon and I am sitting at my new favorite spot to write… by our pool watching my boys having fun. It is about 95 degrees out today, so we absolutely had to get wet. We started the day by going to the movies (where there is great air conditioning) and we saw Ice Age 3 which was actually really good.

Today I am writing about what is new at Making Money Online Dot Com and to celebrate the first month anniversary of this site. It has been a pretty good first month, but we have a lot of really great stuff planned for the upcoming months, so we hope you keep coming back.

First off… this weekend we have finally joined the world of those of you who “tweet” and created a Twitter account for the site. It is http://twitter.com/mmodotcom. We wanted to get twitter.com/makingmoneyonline, but unfortunately that was too long. Please take a peek and let us know what you think of the background and let us know if there is something you think we should change.

Now for you veteran Twitterers out there, how do you guys use Twitter? Do you post what you are doing all day, just links to your blog posts, or do you do something else? Since we are new at this, we are not sure how to actually best use Twitter to our advantage while making it something worthwhile to our followers. Also, do most people have it connected to their cell phone? That seems like it would get annoying rather quickly if you receive everyone’s posts to your phone.

In regards to our Twitter account, we would love to have you follow us. We would also like to follow anyone who has some of the same interests as us. So if you have a blog or website that is in the “making money online” niche, “blogging” niche or something else you think might interest us, please leave your twitter address in the comment section below. We would love to see what you are up to, plus it will let our readers know about you as well.

Also this weekend, we expanded our “Footer” to include 3 widget boxes which now include, “Most Recent Comments” and “Who Comments Most”. We will be using the second one to start running some contests in the upcoming weeks to encourage commenting, so stay tuned!

The one section of the site that we are still behind on is the “Business Spotlight” section which will be located in the top left widget box on the homepage. We actually have several people lined up to interview, but we have not decided what the best medium is to bring that to you. If you have any suggestions, please let us know.

Since this is our one month anniversary, we thought we would list our favorite posts that you might have missed if you are brand new to the site. Here are some of the ones we really like:

- Gurus Make More Money Online and Have a Lot More Fun While Doing It!

- Buy, Test, Review, Earn Your Money Back, Profit, Use Forever, Keep Making Money… Sound Good?

- How to Come Up with Blog Post Ideas

- Sometimes it Pays to be a Nice Guy

- Hey Bloggers, Scratch Our Blog and We’ll Scratch Yours

- Making Your Blog More than Just a Blog!

Well that’s it for this post. It’s time for me to jump in the pool myself!