Twitter is quickly becoming the most popular social networking site in existence. There are currently about 6 million registered Twitter users, which equates to around 3.8 percent of people on the Internet. The research shows further projections that those numbers will double by the end of this year to 12.1 million users, and gain another 50 percent in 2010 to bring the service to a total audience of roughly 18 million registered users. This is overwhelming evidence that twitter is the hot place to be online right now. You can get real time data on literally anything happening in our world today and interact with millions of people live.

When I 1st heard about twitter I was a bit skeptical. I guess I just didn’t see how extraordinarily powerful this site really was until recently. My friend RJ Pepino had built a twitter following of 21,000 in just a few months and was having people join him in his business opportunity everyday! All of these leads where free. If you’re looking to create some passive income online, build a home base business that runs on automation and build your own list of followers, you have to be on Twitter.

So I put together a Beginners guide for you to generating Leads on Twitter:

1. Twitter- Create a free Twitter account if you haven’t already done so. Don’t be shy when creating your bio, be yourself, remember you are creating relationships and connecting with people.

2. Twitbacks-Customize your Twitter background with Twitbacks. You want to stand out from the crowd.

3. Social Oomph- Make sure you use Social Oomph and create a free account. This will allow you to send automated welcome messages, aka DM’s to new followers and create settings that will automatically follow those who follow you or un follow those who do not follow you.

4. livelybrowser- Purchase the Twitter Friend Adder for $50. This is optional, but highly recommended. You can automatically add Twitter friends with this tool running in the background. It is recommended you do not add more than 100-200 friends per day or twitter will suspend your account. You can also un follow those who don’t follow you, which is recommended every 24-48hrs after adding. This is extremely handy when doing followings of 100 or more people per day, which you will need to do to build a list fast and automation, is the way to go! If you’re on a budget, just add friends manually by finding others in your same niche but that is very time consuming.

5. Twellow- You can find people in your industry, mentors, and friends and or people talking about particular subjects to network with by using Twellow. When you find like-minded people follow them and their followers. See step 4 to automate this process.

6. Brainy Quote-Find good content to share with others. Don’t spam your links or always trying to sell. Build relationships; twitter success is dependent on your ability to share valuable content and information with your network and friends. Share anything funny, inspirational and educational even videos. Also share quotes, blog posts or re-syndicate content that you like from other people. I like using Brainy Quotes to find go quotes for content.

7. Make sure you use all the features available by twitter to communicate. Use direct messages and @reply features to interact personally with your new friends and network.

Hope these 7 simple steps help. Remember it’s all about connecting with your audience. If you can connect and build relationships then you will be a success on line!