What is Twitter?
Twitter is an online news and social networking site where people communicate in short messages called tweets. Tweeting is posting short messages for anyone who follows you on Twitter, with the hope that your words are useful.
It is a micro blogging and social networking service on which users post and user’s access Twitter through its website interface, through Short Message Service (SMS).
It is a free online social networking service used to send/receive short messages within a specified group. considerably like sending an email to a list, it post conveys a message to a predetermined list.
Why I liked Twitter…
I found that it is extremely contagious. soon i was finding out Obama’s Twitter account, reading Social Media Club’s postings, and following CNN’s account with notifications to my phone so I could stay awake on the newest breaking news. It had me hooked! I wanted to understand what people were doing. i used to be craving the communication.
https://eva.istjm.edu.ec/Twitter for Business communication
How could my business benefit by sharing (sending/receiving) concise information with a group of people? Currently, most Twitterers seem to use it for private socializing, for communicating their life with their friends. However, it does provide new tools which will help move your business. Here are five examples:
- Transmit Instantaneous Messages and Log Information: the other day I spoke with someone that’s part of a team that goes into businesses to figure on networks. While working they send Twitters to every other announcing what they’re doing. Everyone who is a a part of the team can see the same information and respond if needed. additionally, the messages are logged on the Twitter site. All communication is retrievable for future references.
- Drive Traffic to a Blog and/or Website: When this text goes live, I’ll let my friends and associates know — and hear their feedback — by Twitter. I also drive traffic to other articles, sites, and information that might be useful to people in my Twitter network, knowing they’re going to do the same for me https://lahcen.org/portfolio/jo-spa-website/
- Discover New and Developing Ideas: By using Twitter to follow thought leaders in your industry you’ll stay in-tuned with new and emerging ideas. Short ideas and thoughts will be broadcast in an attempt to solicit feedback. Many bloggers will list their Twitter accounts on their blogs — by following the person in Twitter you’ll gather new information even before it hits the blog. check out this Twitter from rickklau announcing a new wiki and asking for help developing it: Need help with a high-visibility political site – not candidate-centric – in the next couple days. E-mail me rick@rklau.com if interested.
- Fuel New Ideas: Often as I read the Twitters of thought leaders i will begin to develop new ideas. In other words, the Twitters is springboards for your own creative thinking. Here’s a Tweet from gaping void in reflection of the Microsoft/Yahoo takeover: Still not convinced that a MSFT+Yahoo merger is enough to get in Google’s way, long-term.
- Discover Breaking News: Since I communicate for a living, I find it helpful to learn of breaking news. These news events often provide a catalyst for initiating conversation with people that I’m meeting. Here’s a sample from news media jim while at the White House: budget chairman Spratt has just received the President’s budget. at cursory glance, he didn’t seem impressed.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter