Twitter is a micro-blogging platform that allows you to communicate your thoughts in 140 characters or less. Twitter is actually taking the micro-blogging platforms by storm. Is the newest craze.

Marketers and other people from every niche are using Twitter to communicate every single day. If you are not using Twitter you need to start.

For me, I did not start using Twitter when I should have because I did not know how to communicate. I really did not know how to express myself in 140 characters or less. So, I want to give you a couple tips on how I use Twitter to communicate.

What you are doing? One of the things I like to Twitter about is what I'm doing at that time. So, if I am surfing a webpage I will Twitter about that webpage.

Reply to other tweets. In order to get into the conversation I will reply to other people's tweets. I look for things that people are going to start conversations. So, if someone is talking about their family I will usually reply to that. If someone posts a picture up I will usually reply that. These types of things get people involved in a conversation with you. That is the entire point. To build relationships.

I Twitter about events. If there is an event coming up in my life I will tweet about it. For example, when me and my wife had our sixth anniversary I put a post on Twitter and a post on my blog. This helps build relationships.

Starting a conversation on Twitter is very similar to starting a conversation in real life. The only difference is you need to do it in 140 characters or less. You need to be short and concise. Straight to the point. This allows people to quickly scan and filter out things they do not want to hear. You should be primarily interested in only people I want to hear about what you are saying.

Anyway, the point is that this platform is like any other platform. It Is there for you to communicate. If you are not properly communicating, unfortunately you are not getting your word out. If you are not getting your word out you're not driving traffic and you're not making sales. So, you need to join in on the conversation and communicate as best as possible on Twitter.