One would be almost a fool not to see the advantages of having a twitter.com account. And you have such an account, start tweeting the news and link it to your blog and website. People that are interested in you or your company will follow you and recommend, relist, retweet you to their own community. Call it the online word of mouth.

If you think your staff will waste time on twitter.com, well don’t worry, get the biggest tweeter in your company and make that one into the house tweeter and blogger and come up with a monthly slideshow on the benefits of twitter for your business. If there is not benefit (I doubt that), then you will soon find out…

Eitherways, don’t just talk about it but get it now at http://twitter.com

I don’t want to read all this, I got no time or I would not understand it anways. just get it done for my company, we will pay you a reasonable fee.

Or continue reading and learn how we did it.

Twitter according to WikiPedia : “Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service itself costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.” source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

I have setup a number of accounts myself for www.cmd.com.my, I will call these community content boxes. Within minutes people (some are spammers and twitter zombies, I know…) started to follow us. This really works.

Here are our twitter ID’s : www.twitter.com/CMD_COM_MY (main CMD company account), twitter.com/malaysia_seo (our SEO related project in Malaysia), twitter.com/seokualalumpur (seo in Kuala Lumpur related info), twitter.com/CMD_E_Commerce (our Cubecart / E-commerce / E-catalogs related projects), twitter.com/cmdblogs (business blogs by CMD, blog related info, we currently use wordpress)

Then we have setup some product/service related accounts (you cannot put everything into one twitter, it will get too full, unfocused).  This is to stick to the topic at hand within a twitter account.

This helps to keep things where they belong.

Then I proceeded with making some categories to classify the information in our twitter list.

• internet-access-malaysia
• malaysia-unclassified
• football-malaysia
• transport-in-malaysia
• food-malaysia
• internet-hosting-malaysia
• it-developments-malaysia
• online-sales-in-malaysia
• politics-in-malaysia
• diving-in-malaysia
• tourism-malaysia
• gadgets-in-malaysia
• online-ads-in-malaysia
• blogs-in-malaysia
• news-in-malaysia
• seo-in-thailand
• google-adwords
• seo-in-malaysia
• telecoms-in-malaysia

My own twitter ID is http://twitter.com/jangeirnaert alias http://twitter.com/tropicaljantie but I don’t use that for business related matters. Better keep your personal twitter and company twitter separated.

Last thing use tweetdeck.com to manage multiple twitter accounts and keep spammers or twitter zombies out with truetwit.com. This will keep twitter spam out… and make users authenticate themselves.

So far my twitter tip for today.

Related top postings on twitter for business :

• 4 Ways Companies Use Twitter for Business – ReadWriteEnterprise Gartner released a report today that highlights the different ways that companies are adopting Twitter for business use.
• 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business
• How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Business | Copyblogger
• 62 Ways to Use Twitter for Business – WebWorkerDailyTwitter for Business FAQ Twitter is still a scary, untamed frontier for many businesses.
• Twitter for Business FAQ. Twitter is still a scary, untamed frontier for many businesses