Twitter, tweets, twittering, tweeps – what??!!
Posted on 26. Sep, 2009 by Sheryl in All blog posts, internet demystified, twitter
What is this Twitter all about?
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s time to catch up on the latest social media phenomenon – Twitter.
How it works: With Twitter you send short messages of 140 characters or less – these are known as “tweets” — to any other Twitter member (a tweep) who has chosen to “follow” you. You can send the messages from your computer and you can send or receive tweets via your cell phone.
Twitter accounts are free, and if you learn how to gather a community of followers, you have an audience that you can reach out and “tweet” your message to anytime, anywhere. If your Tweets are helpful, entertaining or just plain great, your followers will pass the Tweet to their followers, and so on and so on…
The key to social media, however, is to remember that it is: SOCIAL.
It’s not really a method for retail selling but you can use Twitter to rave to your new best friends about something great you’ve discovered. Give them insight; share a little about yourself. Build a community. Above all, be real. Twitter, like Facebook and other social media, is about relationship-building.
Can Twitter help get the word out about your business? Certainly! Just remember as Rachel Hunter once said “it won’t happen overnight, but it will happen”.
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