Twitter is probably the second best tool for generating traffic (the first being social bookmarking). Twitter allows people to see what other people are doing and tell other people what they are doing. In other words its a toned down blog and rss feed.

So how can I generate traffic from this so called “Twitter”?
People love twitter because it is simple, all they have to do is sign in to see what all their friends are doing. Unlike RSS where you have to get your friends to set up there own feed on their website and then you have to subscribe through a link, Twitter lets you update, follow (subscribe) and find friends all in one site. Because of its simplicity millions have flocked to it and many bloggers have found that the amount of people following on Twitter to be larger than their RSS subscribers. Using twitterfeed you can easily post excerpts of your posts to twitter along with a link so people can easily find your blog and read it. Plus Twitter is viral, people can see who their friends are following and might start following as well. This combined with the fact that many people Twitter everything they do (including reading your blog) can give you extreme growth in short periods of time.

What has this got to do with moblogging?
Everything. Once you have a large following you could twitter about something from your mobile and lots of people will read it, follow this up with a full post on the subject on your blog and you have a large amount of people already interested. Twitter also enables you to break news first, hear something and you could have twittered it in less than a minute increasing your reputation as a blogger and all round person.

How can I Twitter via mobile?
Luckily there are hundreds of ways to do this I however will highlight only a few:

1. Twitter mobile m.twitter.com
Easily log in and post Tweets through your mobile browser. It’s so simple I can’t even explain it, you just do it.

2. Text Twitter twitter.com/devices
Go to the devices page on twitter and enter your mobile number. Text the twitter number with your tweets and watch in awe as your Twitter gets instantly updated. You can even receive friends tweets by text if you check the box on the devices page, FOR FREE.

3. TweetsVille for iPhone tweetsville.com
Find TweetsVille on the app store and download, it is probably the simplest iPhone twitter client out there. Log-In and tweet, read tweets, search for tweets and view hot twitter trends.

So why is Twitter going to take over the world?
In a sense they already have, they have the intimate details of millions of peoples lives on their server. The only reason we do not bow down to our birdy overlords is because they don’t want us to yet.