Twitter Marketing: Using AddATweet to Make Tweets about Specific Web Pages

I have been trying out something called AddATweet which is a Firefox plugin that allows you to post tweets that appear on any web page to other users who also have the plugin. This Is a great tool for having conversations with other Twitter users of particular web pages. I am by nature not a real chatty person, so tools like this are very useful for people like me because they create things to talk about.

Certainly, there is a limit to the number of people you can interact with since it is limited to the universe of people who: 1. use Firefox; 2. have the plugin installed; and 3. have it turned on. However, there is some value to using it anyway as a means to comment on interesting web pages and as the source of conversation.

To try it out, visit the AddATweet website, www.addatweet.com, and click the install button on the upper right hand side of the screen. While you're there, you can find some web pages that people have commented on using the plugin. They are listed on the right hand side of the page underneath a header that says "Popular AddATweet Pages" today. Since the installed user base is small (given the newness of the application), it makes sense to start out by going to web pages where people are already posting comments.

If you use this tool in conjunction with BigTweet, it will be pretty easy to come up with things to tweet about simply by talking about web pages you visit. Things get even easier if you combine manual tweeting using these tools with automated tweeting using a software solution such as TweetLater.

A word of caution: you should be careful giving your Twitter credentials to applications that do not already have a lot of people using them. I recently got burned doing that. However, given the wide publicity and quick acceptance given to AddATweet, I believe it is safe to use.