I’ve been discovering lately that Twitter has some amazing potential.  It has the ability to connect you with others, to promote your websites or products, and amazingly it has the awesome potential for direct profits.

In fact, recently I launched an article where I offered to use my twitter stream as a means to send traffic to people’s websites at the low rate of only 4 cents per click.  As a result of that article, I had over $165 sent to my paypal account within 48 hours.

Yet even with all of this potential, I’m still hearing people ask if Twitter is really worth it.  Some are still wallowing in obscurity wondering what all the hype is about.

After all, getting started can be difficult.  You can’t just sign up at Twitter and start rolling in cash and making friends.  It takes knowledge and effort.  Read on and I’ll provide you with the knowledge necessary to start using your twitter account to its fullest potential.  I’m even going to show you how to minimize the effort.

Factors in Maximizing Your Twitter Power

If you want to unleash the potential of your Twitter account then you’ve got to focus on a few things.  Here’s what you need to keep in mind.

Number of Followers

One of the first things that you’ve got to focus on is building your followers.  The more people that see your tweets, the more that will be exposed to clicking your links, interacting with you, and retweeting your information.

I receive an average or 0.5% to 2% of clicks for every follower that I have.  In other words, now that I have more than 9,000 followers, I get between 45 and 180 clicks per link that I tweet.

Targeted Followers

Having a mass of followers isn’t necessarily enough if none of them are interested in the topics that interest you.  The goal is to connect with others around the ideas that you’re passionate about.  If you write a blog about technology then you want to target followers who are interested in the latest trends in the world of tech.

Influence

Although this factor is somewhat useless or nonexistent without the first two, it is still perhaps the most important of the three.  Influence is the measure of how often users interact with you, click on your links, and retweet your tweets.  Influence will determine the effectiveness of your twitter account.

Tweet Spinner: Pump Your Twitter Productivity

So how do we maximize our twitter accounts in these three areas?

Tackling those three things can be a difficult challenge.  Thankfully, however, there are applications that can absolutely multiply your efforts by doing some of the work for you.

I use a product called Tweet Spinner and I’ve been watching my twitter account grow by a steady 2,000 to 3,000 followers per month without ever having to do a thing.  It does it all for me.

Tweet Spinner is amazing because it allows you to target users based on your interests.  You can follow people based on keywords in their recent tweets or based on users that they follow.

I’ve been paying the $15 monthly fee for the premium membership at Tweets Spinner and as I mentioned at the onset of this article, my account now has the potential to make $165 dollars over night.  My money was well spent at Tweet Spinner and I invite you to join me on the journey to Twitter bliss.

Relationships Are Still The Key to Real Success

Although it’s great to automate part of the process of building your twitter influence, the core of this work must still be done by you.  You still need to respond to people that you follow.  You need to interact with other users.  You need to get to know people and help others get to know you.

Work on building relationships and you’ll see a dramatic increase in your online influence.