Greetings readers, yes it’s time for this weeks Saturday Six and this weeks topic is Social Networks. Many of us use the social networks to promote our blogs/websites and even other websites we may be visiting, as usually you can post your answers here or on your blog with a link back to this weeks Saturday Six. So here we go…

• What are your top six Social Networks that you use?

Ok, that’s it, thanks for taking part and I’m looking forward to everyone’s answers. Don’t forget to hit the “ReTweet” button to ReTweet this weeks Saturday Six.

Anyone using Twitter can be part of the process by tweeting me a topic, I will then pick one randomly and the chosen topic will be used and the tweeter will have a DoFollow link to their website or blog as a thank you.

If you would like to nominate a topic then simply tweet me @RemBeatZ with your nominated topic and the hash tag #Sat6

Also if you take part in the Saturday Six you can join the Saturday Six Twibe.. And don’t forget to vote for me at my interview at BlogInterviewer.

The title of this post is a question that I have seen several times in my blogs stats, so I thought I would take the opportunity to shine a bit of light on those, that like myself, are on the Orange network.

So the simple answer to the question “Is twitter free on orange dolphin” is NO, but there is a fantastic way around it and I use it myself to tweet with my orange phone that is now on the dolphin tariff.

So how can it be done?

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I’ve just been doing my rounds and reading some of my favourite blogs on the net when I stopped by Dragon Blogger and this great post on Custom Twitter Signatures for your Site and Blog,  the site the DragonBlogger is posting about will allow to to have a banner like this one:

To add to your blog, forums, webiste any where you want really, so if you would like a tasy banner like this one then check out the Twitter Signature Styles for you own cool looking banner!

If you are starting out using Twitter then you may be wondering what all the fuss is about, but once you get going on it, it can be quite addictive, so to help you have a bit more fun with Twitter here’s a small collection of sites or Twitter Tools that you may like.

If you are looking for new friends then Mr.Tweet is a great little site that will act as your own personal networking assistant with Twitter. All you have to do is follow Mr.Tweet and then you’ll recieve a DM (Direct Message) suggestions and more on good Twitters to follow. This is one of my favourite Twitter Tools and it’s just so easy to use.

For organising your new followers etc then try out Tweepler. With Tweepler you can allocate Tweeps in to two buckets, those to follow and those to ignore, very simple, but effective, even has a more option to find out more about the Tweep.

Tweetlater is a site that some people use and rave about, yet some don’t like it. Tweetlater not only has the options to tweet at a future date, but also allows you to choose from options such as autofollow new followers, autounfollow those that unfollow you and also the option to vet new followers.

A fun site to use is Twitter Grader, this site takes you Twitter name and grades your Twitter profale with info such as overall rank, followers, following and updates, it will also show you a tweet cloud and recommend other users to you.

And finally a site which I find very useful is Twitter Counter, this is a great site, not only does it give you information on how many followers you have, predicts how many you may have the next day, it even show how many follow and unfollowed you. Best of all you have the option of adding a Twitter Counteer to your own website to show everyone how many followers you have

Don’t forget to follow my Twitter

Now probably like me your are listed on sites such as MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter etc, but can these site become a bit of an addiction?

Speaking from experience I have become a bit of Twitter addict over the last few months and twitting when I’m out and about and even twitting my posts from this blog.

My uses of Facebook and Myspace has dwindled over the last twelve months or so, but I still use MySpace as a heavy promoting vehicle for the music of Remergence.

But is there such a thing of belonging to too many of the social network sites, I myself have lost count on how many I actually belong to and if it was not for sites such as ping.fm I would probably have problems trying to update them all.

So what do you think? Are you addicted to letting people know that you’ve just had a biscuit on the train home? Or do you think belong to too many social network site? Or maybe you don’t belong to enough?

Now I can quite honestly say that I have several Twitter accounts, one for each of my blogs and Twitter does have it’s uses when blogging away.

Firstly using a wordpress blog allows me to use plugins for Twitter which will “tweet” each time I post on my blog this is great for those who follow my twitter “Blazing Minds” as it allows them to see what I’m posting about as well as follow other things I may be doing.

Twitter is a vital step on the blog promotion ladder as it will distribute you posts to a larger audience as time go by, so my recommendation to everyone is that if you have a blog, specially a wordpress blog, then get a Twitter plugin and start Twittering

Now I’ve been using ping.fm for quite a while now since it was in it’s beta stage, but now it has come out of beta and is live.

First of all let me tell you what ping.fm actually does, once you join ping.fm you can add your social network websites such as Plurk, Bebo, Twitter, Myspace and many more. Adding this will enable you to update your statuses on these and other sites in one go, also you can create posts for micro-blogs and standard blog entries, enabling you to spend less time updating the many social sites that you may belong to.

So how do you promote your website using ping.fm?
Simple really when you update your website/blog make sure you use ping.fm to update your social networks this will add links to your website from your social networks and as most have a fair amount of friends on their social networks anyway, this will promote you site to them as well as people who may be browsing the networks, sending you new readers/visitors to your site.