To kick off a month of Twitter, I decided to start by asking my followers exactly why they used Twitter!

Here is the response I received:

@HerLadyRavenSky Not really sure why I do. Get my voice heard, see what other people are up to, make a few friends? Basic stuff.

@laffertyjohnson Still trying to figure that out…but information and new contacts.

@geekzDo i use twitter???? No. I live in twitter. Twitter is LIFE.. :)

@jpoole0732 to give my self breaks throughout the day to vent or to see whats going on.

@canopygallery Twitter’s a neighborhood where people open their doors & holler interesting & useful info. I’ve always liked cuckoo clocks.

@spencermcdonald Right now I am experimenting.

So you can obviously see that the is a really broad range of reasons why people are using twitter. For me and the StandOutBlogger Twitter Account, it is all about building the StandOutBlogger brand and increasing the influence I have on the blog about blogging market. The increase in traffic and mailing list subscribers is just an added bonus.

Find Your Purpose… Then Use Twitter Accordingly

I have had a few people tell me that having 1,000′s of twitter followers is pointless because I cannot seriously read the updates of that many people. That may be right, but it does allow me to meet a whole lot of new people and bloggers that I wouldn’t normally meet – which is part of my purpose for using twitter.

Your purpose for Twitter will detirmine the way you use it.

Why do you use twitter?