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Barack Obama Follows Robert Plank on Twitter!

You know you're popular when one of two Presidential candidates personally goes out of his way to add you as a friend on Twitter...

Okay, just kidding. Senator Obama is following 70,000 people on Twitter including me... his account automatically subscribes to YOUR updates when you subscribe to his.

Twitter is a social networking site where you can provide brief, up-to-the-minute updates about yourself -- you are limited to 140 characters so that people who subscribe to you can receive updates via text message.

It sounds like a big waste of time if you use it incorrectly (just like anything else)... and lots of people leave updates like:

(8:35 am) Went to the bathroom.
(9:36 am) Waiting in line at McDonald's...
(10:59 am) Leaving to do errands...

No one cares about that but people do care if you have a relevant discussion going, if you're launching a new product they would like, you have a new blog post, you're going to a seminar, or have a quick question... Twitter is a nice and easy way to build a (non-email) list.

Just about every day his Twitter update says: "In Albuquerque, New Mexico. Discussing the need for equal pay. Watch this discussion live at (url to watch the streaming video)" ... The city, state, and topic change.

That's perfect.  You know what he's doing every day but there aren't a ton of annoying promotional messages, and there aren't any useless messages either.

My question to you:

Do you use Twitter?
Is it a waste of time?
Will spammers ruin Twitter?
What's your BEST Twitter marketing tip?

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