Twitter is now more popular than ever. Anita Hamilton at TIME magazine said “While some people call it microblogging or moblogging, I like to think of Twitter simply as blogging for regular people.” She said that in 2007 when Twitter was a baby… it is now microblogging powerhouse.
Bloggers shouldn’t be disappointed because even though you might like to write more detailed posts and not be limited to 140 characters, you can still use Twitter to promote your blogs and keep in touch with your readers.
Here are 5 Ways To Use Twitter To Promote Your Personal Blog
1) Choose a reasonable twitter username that reflects your personality or your blog. If your blog doesn’t have a set topic, which is the case with most personal blogs, go with any name of your liking. It is recommended you use your real name if you are comfortable or a nickname. Avoid numbers, make it simple and easy to remember.
2) Create a background image for your twitter profile page and have the name of your blog in a prominent place or tiled through out the page. Make sure you have a nice left column that has your picture and a small introduction about you or your blog.
3) Every time you publish a post on your blog, send a tweet to all your followers. Use a URL shortner to make long ugly links smaller and less scary to click.
4) Use Twitter search function to find other bloggers and tweeters who have similar interests as you and start following them. This is also useful if you want to generate topic for your next blog post.
5) Instead of just talking about yourself and your blog, try to make conversation with other people. It is as easy as replying to a Tweet that you consider useful or have something to say about. That’s how you will make friends and get more followers.
The more followers you have, the more exposure your blog will get. Time for some shameless promotion. Follow me on Twitter 
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Totally agree with the list, I have seen a raise in visitors on my blog since I started using Twitter. I would like to add a bonus item on your list, if people starts to follow your tweets, send a polite Thanks for following and in that message you include the URL to the blog
Thanks for a good post
Thanking your followers is a good idea but I personally never do that. Recently there has been an increase in phishing scams using DM on twitter.
As much as I love Twitter, I don’t like receiving DMs from people I don’t know
Thanks for your kind words!