TWITTER
MARKETING - Are you getting your Twitter on? If not
maybe you should think about adding it to your business
model!
Twitter is a free
social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its
users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets.
Tweets are text-based posts of almost 140 characters in length
which are shown on the user's profile page and brought to other
users who have subscribed to them known as disciples. Senders
can prohibit delivery to those in their circle of buddies or,
by default, permit anyone to access them. Users can send and
receive tweets thru the Twitter web site, Short Message Service
SMS or external applications.
The service is
free to use over the Net, and has gained extensive
notability and recognition around the planet. It is frequently
described as the "SMS of the Internet.Guesstimates of the number of daily users
change, as the company does not release the quantity of active
accounts.
It is
estimated that Twitter has 6 million+ users. A Feb
2009 Compete.com blog entry ranked Twitter as the 3rd most used
social network Facebook being the biggest, followed by
MySpace,which puts the quantity of unique monthly visitors at
approximately 6,000,000 and the amount of monthly visits at
fifty five million, however only 40% of users are kept. In
March 2009, a Nielsen.com blog ranked Twitter as the fastest
growing site in the Member Communities class for Feb
2009.
So what does this
mean for your business? Simple..with this kind of traffic,you
can easily get targeted customers for your business,and it's
free.Not only that but you can automate this process,and link
your website with your tweets,and link your tweets with your
blog.This will help with pagerank for your site,as well as
added link juce from Google.Just look around CNN,NBA,The
View,HLN all Tweet! Hmm wonder why?
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