It’s funny just when I think I’ve learned about Twitter I’m finding out the more I don’t know about it.

On the surface (or the outsider) all it seems are people just sending out very short “blog posts” about what they’re doing and nothing else.

For example how much can you tell someone in 140 characters?

Nothing really, but you can lead them more into your life, business, interests, etc by giving a taster of what you’re up to and then they follow you to find out more.

It’s kind of like the trail of bread crumbs, you put your trail down and wait to see what happens?

But what I’m about to show you may change your mind about Twitter forever.

If you look at Twitter like a MLM “pyramid scheme” with you at the top and after a while “Twittering” you suddenly have 10 -20 people following you suddenly you can have a potential huge audience.

Take this illustration as an example. If you look at “you” as being the centre on the circle you can see that even if you only have a small circle of followers (the green circle) the next ring out from the centre. You can see that even from that circle of followers, you suddenly can have a huge group of followers (blue) and potential audience that wasn’t available to you before.

If its like the snow charging down the mountainside it starts off slowly but as it gathers “followers” it gathers pace and suddenly it doesn’t resemble the snowball at the beginning “now a huge audience”.

But as I said it’s a potential audience.

How well your message is carried is up to you. If you Twitter constantly about nonsense and fill you Tweets with affiliate links you’ll never get anywhere.

Put others first and give great content and advice and people will only be glad to recommend you to others and before you know it your inbox will be filled with people putting up their hands and saying “Yes” you’re the type of person I’d like to follow and know more about.

I’ve put up a number of post with various reasons I love using Twitter but one that I’ve just noticed is for quality back links.

Recently, I posted a quick tweet to Ray Edwards. He’s usually Twittering like a mad man but I hadn’t see any Tweets from him in a while, so I send a quick Tweet to see how he was.

Which he responded to, “Nice man that he is”.

But, to make a long story short, I “Googled” myself (not to boost my ego..mind) just to see what was coming up under my name and I found Rays Twitter page coming back in the search results with my personal “Tweet” I’d sent him.

I then visited Rays Twitter page to find he’s got a page rank of 4.

Maybe its a “Doh” moment on my behalf and others have thought of this before but isn’t this another great reason to send Tweets to others as well as Tweet about yourself personally.

By sending and joining with others you gain great backlinks form other people Twitter pages to your own, and then possibly boost your own Twitter pages page rank!

The added benefit of increasing your Twitter page is that now any Tweets you send with a working link (to your blog or site) help gain some link love back to your other sites (and help Google to find them in the first place) and then possibly help to increase their page rank?

So, should we all send Ray Edwards a personal “Tweet”?

No, ( I don’t think he’d be too happy) but by doing such a small thing as Twittering every day you’re helping to increase your exposure on the internet thus making it more easy for more people to find you online.

And its so easy….so whats stopping you??