subject: Using Twitter For Your Business [print this page] If you operate your own business, its about time you learn all the ins and outs of using Twitter. Using Twitter can certainly be an important marketing resource for your Internet business. If you still havent heard all the buzz about Twitter or are still wondering what the real function of twitter is, lets try to explain.
Twitter, in a nutshell, is a simple social networking website that lets you share what youre doing with your friends in real time! Hence the old catch phrase on the Twitter sign-up page What are you doing? Think of Facebook, instant messaging and text messaging all rolled into one simple formula, and youve got Twitter.
Twitter works around a time line, which is displayed on a single page thats updated every second of every minute of every hour.you get my point. Its a constantly updating stream of news from people all around the world. As a Twitter user, you can add your own messages to this continuously updating timeline. Those posts are known as tweets.
But that doesnt mean youre going to be able to see every Twitter members Tweets. You can select what users you want to Follow and others can choose to follow you. Its these followers, in your network, who you can converse (tweet) with.
You might be thinking wow, big deal but there is huge potential to meet other like-minded people and share info, website links, etc. by using this social networking site. Those factors, along with the ability to grow your followers, makes it a perfect platform for business.
There are also a lot of other things you can do using Twitter. You can send direct messages to individual users instead of broadcasting to everyone. There are mobile options where you can send and receive tweets via SMS and email from your cell phone. There are also search options that allow you to find Twitter users who are posting about a certain subject.
Twitter is taking the world by storm and there is a massive potential for business owners, online and off. So, if youre not a member of Twitter yet, you will want to check it out.
