A couple of weeks ago I got a “To Do List” of blog topics to write about. Great! Now, the day has come for me to write a blog about using Twitter for promotions. As usual with topics I’m not terribly familiar with, I go to the computer and do my do diligence researching the topic. As I dove into the research I realized that there is yet another evolving ecosystem I know very little about. It’s amazing! However, after hours of research, I finally realized that I needed to change the perspective of the blog from using Twitter for promotions to a “how to” Twitter for beginners. Cause, really … that would be me! Then after a couple more hours I finally figured it out. After hours of research here are my two Tweets on Twitter:

• To know Twitter, is to use Twitter. Go to www.twitter.com, get started, like me.
• To use Twitter, is to know you only have 140 characters to get the word out.

My journey also lead me to some interesting Twitter facts and figures Twitter shared at a Chirp conference in April 2010:

• Twitter now has 105,779,710 registered users.
• New users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day.
• 180 million unique visitors come to the site every month.
• 75% of Twitter traffic comes from outside Twitter.com (i.e. via third party applications.)
• Twitter gets a total of 3 billion requests a day via its API.
• Twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55 million tweets a day.
• Twitter’s search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day.
• Of Twitter’s active users, 37 percent use their phone to tweet.
• Over half of all tweets (60 percent) come from third party applications.
• Twitter itself has grown: in the past year alone, it has grown from 25 to 175 employees.

It was also noted that most Americans are aware of Twitter and few are using it. (Hey, that’s me! But not for long.) That is called untapped potential. So, stay tuned or tune to http://twitter.com/guavagraphics to follow our Twitter community. Let see where this untapped potential Tweets us.