Welcome to the fifth day of “6 Day Twitter Traffic”.

Join in Conversations

Twitter is a great way to enter into 2-way conversations with individuals.

Don’t talk AT your followers. Talk TO them. And listen to what they say.

Read the posts made by people you follow. They will be displayed on your own Twitter homepage. When something catches your attention, and you feel like responding, do it using the @ prefix. The other person knows you are speaking to them and may choose to reply.

Soon, a conversation is underway - made more fun and fast because you’re both limited to 140 characters.

But don’t let that fool you. Great things can result from these mini-conversations. I’ve got blog posts featured on A-list blogs, closed profitable JV deals and found partners to help with several projects - all from engaging in discussions on Twitter.

Your task for today’s challenge is to engage at least 3 of your followers in conversation. It doesn’t matter if you’re doing all the talking. Find something to comment on or discuss and post an @ message.

You might even start a discussion going around the theme of Congenital Heart Defects awareness. By posting a tweet about how you’re participating in the ‘Twitter for CHD’ challenge to help a child with heart birth defects, you’re setting the conversational ball rolling.

Here’s a tweet you can post to start with:

Did you know 2500 children will die from heart defects today - unless they are treated? http://www.CHDinfo.com/chdaware/

or

8 out of every 1,000 children born will have some form of heart birth defect! http://www.CHDinfo.com/chdaware/

or

“A Day For Hearts” is on February 14th. Please show your support. Help save a child’s heart. http://www.CHDinfo.com/chdaware/

Go back into the previous posts to look for topics or tweets you can pin your conversation on. Then, keep trying with another 2 people you are following. Chances are that at least 1 will respond. That’s great. Especially when you include links in your tweets, which will get a few of them to click through to your site.

Don’t forget to do your daily routine tasks - follow 25 new people and post 10 new links or short snippets (of which no more than 2 should be your own content).

The “CHD Social Media Challenge” is a project to spread Congenital Heart Defects awareness. There are 4 mini-tutorials and 1 firesale making up the ‘challenge’. You can join in and help too - click here to see how.