Is Twitter A Blogger’s Best Friend?

Should you be on Twitter? Should you have a Twitter account? I think you should. But there are other reasons to use Twitter. Even if you aren’t a Twitterer yourself, you can use Twitter as a blogger to help you come up with topics to write about. This ability plus the use of Twitter to promote your blog posts is a very powerful combination.

CNET recently reported that Twitter Search is adding the ability to crawl links, making Twitter Search an actual real-time search engine. That means in addition to finding the latest tweets on a given topic you can also find the latest blog posts and other information published online by conducting a Twitter Search. While I wouldn’t abandon Google just yet, this does add a level of competition between Twitter and Google. In terms of real-time search, Twitter wins.

Of course, Twitter hasn’t officially announced the availability of this technology or started allowing users to search the entire Internet. But when it does then every blogger would benefit by using Twitter to promote their blog posts. Twitter will likely the the way that future searchers use to find information right now, the most recently published information, on a topic of interest. And you’ll want to be there.