If you are tired of dealing with spamming bots that fill up your Twitter updates with useless garbage there is help.  I recently came across this service called TrueTwit which is designed to help you

·         Verify people from robots

·         Avoid Twitter spam

·         Save time managing your followers

The service is completely free and simple to sign up and validate your profile by filling in a CAPTCHA box.  You can then choose to send a DM to every person who follows you automatically asking them to validate themselves with the service.   A simple idea, but a valuable service to help keep Twitter bots at bay and out of my Twitter updates page.  It also adds credibility to your own account by being validated as human.   You can easily sign up now at http://truetwit.com/truetwit/signUp/index

If you found this information helpful please let me know.

I am by no means a Twitter expert yet, but I have been learning quickly over the past few weeks simply by following people and engaging with them.  Yes, I have built my following up a few hundred people a day since figuring out the basics, but the real growth is not just in the number of followers, but rather the experience as a whole of really understanding Twitter and how it can be used, and the huge amount of information that it puts in front of me all day long.

I have found and read articles on topics that interest me, far more than ever before through simply searching in Yahoo or Google.  I have also learned more about Twitter simply by using it, seeing how it works, seeing how people interact, engage, and share, then you ever could through reading a million articles about it.  So if you have just been reading about it and never using it yet, get started.

Over and over I find people tweeting articles that discuss how important it is to "engage your followers".  I could not agree more through my experience.  The best information is that which comes from a trusted source.  It is up to you to built that trust with others through personal connections and conversations, and "find the real people" on Twitter that can help you along the way.  I still have a lot of work to do in this area, but know it is the key to success.

I found, like everyone will, that there are bots on Twitter, there are ways to auto post tweets from an account, and there is a ton of useless information being passed around as well.  But if you are really reaching out to people and engaging them then you can see through the clutter and find real people looking to build relationships and help each other.  You will never find these people if you do not reach out on a personal level and interact with your following.  Getting people who will constantly retweet your ideas is the way to expand your influence and reach.

You can have 100,000 followers but if none of them deem you as a credible source then it will make no difference.  Get out there and "find the real people", by engaging them to the fullest to build your position as a trusted source of information.  With a quality following of people who care about you, the opportunities will create themselves.

Many people have made a lot of money using the traditional methods, but the people who have made the most were the ones who were ahead of the curve, early adoptors, the first of their kind to get into the new advertising channels. Now you can do the same by jumping in on the opportunity to make money through Twitter. Then by using their affiliate program you can expand your opportunity quickly and easily for auto generated cash flow into your account.

One company, SponseredTweets, has already set up a system for making money on Twitter simply by making tweets on your profile which recommend different brands or services. The companies pay to have you tweet to your followers and the level of income depends on the size of your following and overall popularity of your Twitter account.

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I think there are some major differences between Facebook and most other social networking platforms. Facebook has become so much more personal and friend-oriented then anything else, which is why there is stronger emotion around being "defriended" on Facebook as opposed to someone "unfollowing" you on Twitter.

I would recommend using a Facebook profile for only close friends so you dont have to worry about different sharing permissions for different people. If you are using Facebook for a business then you should be using a Facebook Fan Page instead of a profile. Then you can easily seperate personal "friends" from "fans", who are really the equivalent of "followers".

A "follower" is a person that is not emotional important to you, but a "friend" is. It all depends on the language used by the site which builds the culture around how the site builds its userbase.

If you are using a social network that specifically uses the term "friend". Use with caution because emotions will be involved.

Although it may still sound like a lot of money, $100 million is a fraction of what Friendster anticipated it would be worth at this stage in the game. In 2003, Friendster turned down a 30 million dollar offer from Google which is estimated to be worth more then $1 billion today.

In the meantime since that offer, Friendster has mostly disappeared in the US but managed to get some 100 million users using their platform in Asia. It appears that Friendster unfortunately missed their window of opportunity in the US, something that everyone should keep as a good reminder when an offer is put on the table, it may be the best offer you will ever see.

Friendster certainly may have had reason to believe that they were going to grow much larger in the US, but they did not execute, and in the end, failed to remain a leader in the social networking arena