Read this article from Comscore.

“Twitter seems to be just about everywhere these days, infiltrating pop culture and challenging traditional communication channels as people answer the simple Twitter question, “What are you doing?” Many people have hopped on the Twitter bandwagon – from businesses to celebrities to professional sports players to President Obama.

Over the past several months, we at comScore have watched how quickly traffic to Twitter has exploded. Worldwide visitors to Twitter approached 10 million in February, up an impressive 700+% vs. year ago. The past two months alone have seen worldwide visitors climb more than 5 million visitors. U.S. traffic growth has been just as dramatic, with Twitter reaching 4 million visitors in February, up more than 1,000% from a year ago.”

Read this article from Scott Allen.

“By most people’s standards, I’m doing very well on Twitter. TwitterGrader currently gives me a score of 100% and has me ranked #265 out of nearly 2 million users it has analyzed. I’m adding an average of a little over 30 followers per day, and have had days where I’ve added almost 100 new followers (#FollowFriday has been very good to me lately – thanks to all have included me in their lists).

I could toss up a bunch of other metrics here to convince you, but let’s just suffice it to say that, more or less, I’m “doing everything right” (I’m sure a few people will argue one or two points with me, but whatever). But I want more followers. LOTS more followers. And so do you…and here’s why…”

Read this article from Community Marketing Blog.

“In these recessionary times every bit of energy that your company expends needs to transform into valuable results. Twitter has the potential to open the door to dozens, hundreds or thousands of valuable contacts depending on what your company has time to manage. We’ve looked at hundreds of comments from professionals and simplified practices they used that have turned them into power networkers rather than sideline observers on one of the fastest growing social networks on the internet.”

Read this article from Scott Fox.

“I am tired of hearing Twitter “thought leaders” whine about the “proper” way to behave on Twitter. These self-appointed experts seem to have a lot of uninvited assumptions about how you and I should use Twitter.”

Read this article from Noobpreneur.

“Maybe you have read this a thousand times, but I would like to encourage you once again. You. Have. To. Use. Twitter. Period.

What is Twitter, anyway? In essence, Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging site that allow you to connect and interact with fellow users easily – in real time and in 140 characters – basically answering this question: “What are you doing?”

Twitter is the fastest growing social networking site on the Net today (Goodbye Facebook!), with 1,382 per cent year-on-year growth, compared to Facebook’s “mere” 228 per cent year-on-year growth.”

Read this article from Tweak and Tune.

“So you’ve chosen your topic, written some great content, and made a blog. Hopefully you used some of the blog SEO tips I discussed in my last post to get indexed and ranked for at least some of your target keywords. Maybe you’re even starting to see some traffic trickle in, but… wouldn’t it be great if you could send interested visitors to your blog as soon as you post? Even better, I’ll show you blog marketing tactics that can get targeted visitors to come to your blog whenever you choose!”

This article is from Susan Mernit.

“Deanna Zandt and I did a workshop at WAM! on using twitter and we shared a lot of tips that I realized were worth capturing both for this blog and as a handout for people who’d like one. So, here’s a recount of what we covered, tools we talked about and links to note.” Read article.

This article is from Internet Marketing Profit Machine

“After being quite active on Twitter a few months now, i’m definately starting to see it’s amazing advantages for my online business. However, there’s one always CRUCIAL thing which often goes overlooked, which I will explain here… The Auto Direct Message. This is not a rant, but more of a help article, as I want YOU to be as successful as you possibly can.” Read article.

This article is from Community Marketing Blog

“We’ve been asked by numerous professionals, “Can you actually get new leads and a payback by using Twitter?” It’s a fair question, especially during tight economic times when any sales and marketing effort has to survive and thrive for the efforts invested. The following tips are based on feedback from professionals who have participated in emails, blog comments and various professional online Group discussions who have gained real leads and new clients as a result of working with twitter.” Read article.

This article is from Social Media Today

“Twitter is now the third most popular social network, behind Facebook and MySpace (Compete, 2009). A year ago, it has over a million users and 200,000 active monthly users sending over 3 million updates per day (TechCrunch, 2008). Those figures have almost certainly increased since then. With the torrential streams of Twitter updates (or tweets), there’s an emerging demand to sieve signals from noises and harvest useful information.” Read article.