Mar 20, 2009

What IS this Twitter thing???

Categories: Social Media Marketing, Twitter
Written By: Webhead20

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FYI, City of Hope 24 hour Danceathon raised over $129K and boy does my body hurt!!  But good fun!  Thanks to all my friends on Facebook and Twitter for getting the word out for me and donating to a great cause in such short notice!  The power of social marketing at work!


So now I’m going to take a step back.  I’ve written about Twitter in regards to politics, charities and even comedy.    And the question I’m hearing more and more, time and again is, “What is this Twitter, tweet thing?”  So here’s a succinct description written by a colleague of mine at Supanova Training in the UK.

Twitter is in effect an internet based texting service that allows anyone with an account to post messages of up to 140 characters. All Twitter accounts are free and you can add a link back to your website in your biography so that every time someone new decides to follow you they can easily access your site…(read more)


She goes on to to talk about how a local Chinese restaurant is using Twitter as a tool to generate more business by driving readers to their website.  Once there it’s up to them to keep them there!  I would just like to add that once you get involved with Twitter their any number of Twitter tools out there that help you organize, automate, search and manage your Twitter accounts!  Have fun tweeting and if you aren’t already, feel free to follow me on Twitter :)

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7 Responses to “What IS this Twitter thing???”

  1. Kevin Stolpe Says:
    March 20th, 2009 at 4:07 pm

    Ok, Looks like I have some learning to do.
    Crazy day, will have to cal you next week.
    All the Best
    Kevin

  2. Brian Austin Says:
    March 24th, 2009 at 10:29 pm

    Nice article..
    to add to this article here is a Ultimate Guide to everything u need to know about Twitter
    http://tinyurl.com/djnho6

    Not my post but the idea of Social Networking is to share ;-)

    thanks

    Brian Austin
    Twitter: http://twitter.com/Brian_Austin

  3. Trevion Says:
    March 25th, 2009 at 1:17 pm

    Twitter is a 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 up to 140 bytes in length. Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can send and receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS (receive only), or through applications such as Tweetie, Twitterrific, Twitterfon, TweetDeck and Feedalizr. The service is free to use over the web, but using SMS may incur phone services provider fees.

  4. Gayook Says:
    April 19th, 2009 at 6:51 pm

    Twitter is so new to me., still learning and will be for a while. Anyway, I’m following Webhead20 :)

  5. Stimulated Graphics Says:
    April 22nd, 2009 at 1:54 pm

    For a unique approach to using twitter, we have placed the latest tweet in our website header. Visit http://www.stimulatedgraphics.com…we would love to hear your opinion.

    Follow us: twitter.com/stimulated

  6. Barbara Tallent Says:
    April 24th, 2009 at 5:37 pm

    It took me a while to get the whole Twitter thing, but now I’m hooked. I collected all these posts on using Twitter in business to help me understand the space: http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1501

  7. Webhead20 Says:
    April 26th, 2009 at 1:54 pm

    Welcome to the Twitterverse! Your link is a great beginner’s introduction to all just recently joining!

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