As I get more and more involved in social media and specifically work to launch this site there are lots of lessons along the way. One that recently came to my attention was the fact that people who take the few minutes it requires to set up their Twitter profile page (see mine here) are doing themselves a huge service whether they realize it or not.

I am not sure how everyone else uses Twitter and whether they take the time to head to people’s profile page but I can tell you I certainly do. I save up my Twitter follow notifications in my in-box and every couple of days I make a point of going to the the profile page of those people who I have recently started following or who started following me. Twitter allows you to personalize your profile to a certain extent by filling out a brief biography, listing a site that you blog on or otherwise etc. However if you do not take advantage of the rest of the landscape offered to you, I would submit that you are missing out on a great opportunity to both personalize your existence on Twitter and more importantly market whatever site, life philosophy or even charity you wish from your profile background picture.

I generally don’t love asking people to come to my site via Twitter (although it is sometimes necessary) but I do believe that when I post something of value or when someone else is kind enough to suggest people follow me, my profile page is my platform (litterally) for letting them know the quick hits of information that I wish to promote at that day in time.

As you can see on my profile I have the three most important pieces of information (my email and two blog sites) I wish to get across easily visible and more importantly easily revisable if I decide I want to promote something else.

The process took me ten minutes. I picked a royalty free photo from istockphoto, edited the sign in Pixelmator and uploaded it to Twitter. Now I have a personalized space, people easily know where to find me and more importantly my 2 blogs are promoted to everyone who visits my profile page. I would strongly suggest you do the same.