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In the words of business blogger Dave Taylor,

My Twitter account is  http://Twitter.com/DaveTaylor  and if you look at my page, you’ll see I have over 700 people who pay attention to what I’m sending out. That means that when I write a blog post now, I promptly twitter about the new page and instantly see dozens to hundreds of thought and opinion leaders hop over to my blog and read it, add comments, and often blog about my postings on their own weblogs.

Let me say that again: when I publish blog entries, I update the hundreds of followers I have on Twitter and *instantly* see a spike in traffic.

Convinced yet?

I have recently started using Twitter, and I’m enjoying learning about leveraging as an idea-generating tool.

Question: if you Tweet for business, is it T-Commece?

Well this was certainly hard to predict … not!

The only thing missing was an interview with Chuck Schumer.  Surely some overstuffed lawmaker will see this as an opportunity for windbaggery.

Dosh Dosh has done a great job of rounding up the top ones. Take a look, pick a couple, and follow them for a while.

I blogged last week about how LinkedIn deleted That Software Guy‘s profile. Since then I’ve been busy rebuilding my profile, cajoling people to recommend me, etc. Rather than maintain two profiles (one for my day job and one for That Software Guy), I decided to just have one, which hopefully won’t be deleted – not that I’m bitter.

I thought this post from Guy Kawasaki had some interesting ideas about sprucing up your LinkedIn profile, some of which I’ve adopted. Let me know what you think of the end result – and make me a connection if you’d like!

For some reason, my That Software Guy profile on LinkedIn has been deleted. I emailed them asking “WTF?” but haven’t received anything more than a automatic response email so far. I sure would like to get those contacts and referrals back …