Do you actively use more than one social network?   Do you only have one purpose for being involved in social media?

If you’re like most people, you use one for business related discussions and one for more personal types of communications.

Though on the surface many social networks seem similar, to use them skillfully you should understand the different roles they can play in your online activity. Here’s what I have discovered in my use of both Facebook and Twitter.

I seem to receive most of the “late, breaking news” types of communications on Twitter.

I know that lots of people post on Facebook about current events but Twitter just seems to be about the latest breaking news.

I usually use Facebook more for communicating with established friendships and family members while Twitter is a broad range of people with whom I think I have common interests.

I have many followers on Twitter who only post those great sayings that we’d all love to have time to read for ourselves but the little 140 character snippets fit much more easily into our lifestyles than going to the bookshelf.

There’s a lot to be said about a person from scanning what they’ve tweeted over the past month than you can find out about them by what they choose to share in their Facebook profile, wouldn’t you agree?

If scanning their tweets indicates a commonality between us, I might ask them to become a friend on Facebook.  That just seems like a much more reliable way to “see” what someone’s all about.

What are your thoughts on this subject?  Please leave a comment and share your opinions.

Why are there people who seem to grow their followers, on Twitter, with little effort and enjoy the fruits of a large following, while some people can barely get a few followers per week?

The answer lies in the little tricks and secrets they use to obtain followers and here’s one, that is just so cool, that you won’t believe how easy it is to get “viral” followers to your Twitter account.  It works like magic.

Want to see how this one is done?…I thought so, lol.

Yesterday I was checking out a blog that I’ve used to learn a lot about Twitter. While there, I saw a link you could click, that would send you to your Twitter home page with a tweet already filled in for you.

John Ritz, obviously, did that so his visitors could tweet and spread the word about his blog and his affiliate product, but up until then, I had never seen that strategy used before.

It’s something that’s certainly worth testing.

With Twitter’s non-pitch atmosphere, I’d recommend only trying it to encourage tweets about pure content or freebie giveaways, though. What do you think?

Feel free to test it out by tweeting about this blog post, which should definitely have mass Twitter appeal and does fit the pure content criteria.

Click Here to Tweet!

(After you’ve clicked the link above, to see what I did, just right-click the link above, select “Copy Link Location” if using Firefox or “Copy Shortcut” if using Internet Explorer, then paste it in notepad or any text editor)