TweetGlide Guide

Twitter

The Twitter train is still gathering momentum, with thousands of new “Tweeters” all convinced that everybody else is deeply interested in what they had for breakfast.

While I am VERY skeptical about the longevity of this social medium, like the stockmarket, it is attracting thousands of people and I’m not really sure why.

TweetGlide

The latest piece of free software is called “TweetGlide” and you can see an explanatory video about it by clicking the image above. “viral exponential aspect” to your marketing efforts.  Yes, this is exactly how they are promoting it. Now, I may seem a little negative about this, but that is for two reasons:

1. I haven’t tried it for more than a few days.

2. It is staggeringly popular, and whenever something is that popular, it rarely lives up to the hype.

Their speil goes on to to say that “your message will be POTENTIALLY seen by thousands of Twitter followers”….well, DUH! That’s what Twitter is all about anyway.

What Special About TweetGlide?

TweetGlide is an application that you have to install onto your local PC/Mac, but you still have to login to your Twitter account, but this time you do it VIA the software.  You are then linked to your Twitter account through your TweetGlide browser (as seen below):

Once in your interface, you can see the following:

1. What people following you are saying

2. Their profiles

3. What people have said to you (directly or as a reply to a message  from you)

4. Your own messages

5. Direct messages sent to you in private

The interface looks really good and it DOES do what is says it will, presenting all of the relevant information that you would normally have to hunt for, within easy reach.

Customizable

Probably the best feature it has is that it allows you to customize the panels that are displayed.  You may not, for example, want to see your own “Tweets”, so you can remove that panel from view.  You are also given radio-buttons that allow you to shorten any long URL’s you may want your “dedicated followers” to see, which is a great feature.

Why Is It Free?

Like most things in life, TweetGlide is free, at a price!  There are THREE ways to use TweetGlide for marketing:

1. Personal Tweeting (free)

2.Viral Downline Tweeting

3. Premium Tweeting

Ad Credits

The TweetGlide community is all about building up “Ad Credits” whereby you can refer some of your followers (or anybody via your blog perhaps) and in so doing, build up these credits so that you can then post your own ads to promote your affiliate products (or your own if you have any of course).

Premium Service

There is, of course, the upgrade option where you can actually BUY credits so that you can display as many ads to all TweetGlide users.  This is where they make their money.  If you refer people and THEY start paying for ad credits, you will receive commissions based on their purchases.

Conclusion

This is a very legitimate offering, however, like Twitter itself, I think that this kind of social marketing has very limited potential.  I’m not even convinced that Twitter will be around in 2 years time, as it will either be dead in the water, or replaced by something else equally “fashionable”.

Luke.