Netpreneur

Heard of Twitter?  It's one of those new-fangled social networking websites that are all the rage with the younger generations.  It's a website that allows you to keep your friends posted about what you're up to - at any time of the day via the web or via your mobile phone.  But it can also be used for business purposes too.

If you have established a brand around your name, then you can use a Twitter 'widget' on your website to let people know what you're doing at any one time.  If you do go down this path, it's important that you update your Twitter status regularly so that the content on your website is constantly fresh.  To make it easy for you, you can 'twitter' by sending an SMS on your mobile phone and your status will update automatically on your website!

It takes only a couple of minutes to put a Twitter 'widget' on your website - here's how:

- Open a Twitter account at http://www.twitter.com

- Visit http://twitter.com/badges and select the 'Other' choice at the bottom.

- Select your preferred widget (I use the HTML/Javascript option, as this affords you flexibility with the styling) and paste the code into your website where you would like the widget to appear.

There are also a number of third party Twitter widgets that you can access by searching Google.

Happy twittering.

Tags: social networking, twitter