How Twitter Can Empower You and Make Your Voice Heard
What I want to share with you today are two video lessons on how to Twitter, plus a few thoughts on how it's pretty literally changing the world. First the article, then you'll find the links to the video lessons at the bottom.
You may use Twitter already, or you may have only heard of it. It’s even possible you may never even have heard of it before, but you'd almost have to go out of your way to avoid hearing about
it these days.
Twitter is a "social networking site" (a website devoted to helping people connect with friends both new and old, family, business contacts, and more) and it is so immensely popular that from
February of 2008 to February of 2009, the number of subscribers went up from 475,000 to 7,038,000 -- that's a 1,382% increase in a year!
Social networking sites used to be mainly popular among teens and people in their early to mid 20s, but they have become increasingly popular amongst people in the older demographics
including people in their sixties and older.
Personally, I haven't always been the biggest fan of social networking sites, for a few reasons (most of which I outlined in my special report on social networking sites and how to avoid privacy and security problems while using them that I recorded in May - available to current Gold Club members, and which I will probably add to the Ultimate Beginners Bundle in the future).
I was very dismissive of Twitter in particular when it first came out a year or two ago, because it seemed like it would be nothing but people posting tedious, self-absorbed updates (called "Tweets") about what they were doing moment-to-moment.
And sure, a lot of it can be like that, but it's evolved into something more.
If you watch the news at all right now I'm sure you're aware of the situation in Iran revolving around the election.
What you may not fully realize is how incredibly important Twitter (and to a lesser degree, other social networking sites like Facebook) have been in getting news of what's going on over there out to the world.
The government there has been actively trying to suppress all news of the protests and everything else going on over there, and it is almost entirely because of Twitter that people have been able to get word out to the rest of us about what's happening.
Twitter lets you update what's going on with you in an incredible variety of ways -- from a web browser, to text messages from your cell phone, to special programs specifically designed to work with the service.
Because of this, the Iranian government has not been able to suppress the voice of the common person who just wants to be heard. It's really pretty amazing, and could never have happened even just a few years ago.
So basically we have seen the end of the era when a government can suppress the voice of the common person.
Think about that for a moment.
This is why I love technology and this amazing time we live in.
I hope for a lot of reasons that the situation over there ends as peacefully as possible, but all we can do in other parts of the world is wait and see, and continue with our lives.
So I'd like to help you join in on Twitter if you've been missing out by sharing two quick video lessons I'm posting to my site. These two lessons are part of a complete set of lessons I'm doing on Twitter which will be coming on the next set of my Gold Club member lesson CDs.
The two lessons I'm sharing today will show you how to sign up for Twitter and how to "follow" me on Twitter.
Now maybe I won't have anything to say that is as important as what's happening overseas right now, but I will share quick thoughts, links to lessons and articles I've written, as well as links to articles, videos and more that I think might be of interest and value.
Not everything will be specifically computer related, as it's also a place for me to share my personal thoughts, etc. but it's easy to pick out the info you want and will benefit from.
These are things which I can't send out to my newsletter when I run into them because it would just be too much email flooding into your inbox, but Twitter makes a great place to share them.
So click the link below and watch the video lessons and join with the millions of people already using Twitter and "follow" me if you'd like to learn more.
Current Gold Club members will get the complete set of lessons on how to use Twitter when the next set if monthly CDs goes out in July, and I'll make them available to purchase in the future.
The first video lesson is how to join Twitter and the second lesson is how to follow on Twitter. You can watch them by clicking the links:
And when you sign up for Twitter (it's free) and "follow" me, send me a "tweet" to say hi!
Hope to see you there.
Until next time, take care, and enjoy,
Worth Godwin
Plain English Simplicity for This Complex Modern World
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