subject: Twitter As A Platform For Online Marketing [print this page] Twitter As A Platform For Online MarketingTwitter is one great platform for internet marketing. Twitter is something like a social networking site which works like IRQ. Which means it can be called a slower version of instant messaging. Here a user can log in at any point to listen to conversations among millions of other users but does not find it difficult to follow. That is the twitter system. This delivers an ambient intimacy as an user is able to meet and greet thousands of people who would have been otherwise inaccessible due to constraints of time and space.At Twitter you post small updates choosing whether to make them private and public. This can seem as an incredibly slow process. But over time this small consistent updates can help to serve as a powerful tool to build up an image. For example you can have a constant flow of news updates regarding your business. This keeps reader informed about your progress giving all the essential news without needing much writing and confusing and boring readers with a lot of data at once. It also helps to build up a level of anticipation keeping readers guessing. Choosing to set the privacy option can determine whether the messages are for public reading or a select group of people. This is a good option for a CEO to be active in social media. CEOs rarely have time to make lengthy blog posts as usually they are always on the move meeting people. Using a mobile a CEO can send text messages to Twitter thus constantly keeping the contact base updated with anything that is to be shared. This makes Twitter a very powerful e promotion tool. It can help to build up a brand image over time.Promotions and offers can be announced regularly on Twitter. This is particularly useful for a retailer. Events can be promoted in a similar manner and even late changes can be announced. Using Twitter can be a great way of finding out what is being said about your company or brand.It is easy to make friends and create contacts by finding people with similar interests or people who have a interest in things that your company or brand promotes. You can then manage your contacts to follow you and thus be recipient to the regular updates from you. This way they will have a constant update of your activities, products and promotions. It must be said with its 140 character limit to every update Twitter is especially good for slow connections and downtimes.Even political candidates are using Twitter to keep their followers updated. Barack Obama and many others have successfully used Twitter to achieve this end.Thus contrary to the usual notion Twitter can actually be used as a very effective tool to promote online an image or a brand. The 140 character limit set on posts makes the posts and informative instead of creative and this helps to keep a lot of jargon at bay providing readers with the precise updates they need making Twitter a powerful promotion and PR tool.
