The immediacy and flexibility of Twitter lets you communicate in real-time wherever you are in the world…
What Is Twitter?
Twitter has over 1 million members who send 50 million tweets in the Twitterspere per day—that’s an average of 600 tweets per second.*
“Every day, millions of people use Twitter to create, discover and share ideas with others. Now, people are turning to Twitter as an effective way to reach out to businesses, too. From local stores to big brands, and from brick-and-mortar to internet-based or service sector, people are finding great value in the connections they make with businesses on Twitter.”
Twitter
Twitter lets you write and read messages of up to 140 characters. You can follow people on Twitter and receive their tweets on your Twitter feed. In addition, people can retweet your tweets on their accounts. The accounts default to a public setting but you can opt to protect your Tweets and who can follow you on Twitter. You can also send and receive Twitter messages, or tweets, equally well from your desktop or your mobile phone.
But Twitter is not just a platform for friends to stay connected in real-time, it has evolved into an important component of brand marketing. The conversational nature and accessibility of Twitter allows you to breathe life to your brand and connect with your customers one on one. Because Twitter can be seamlessly integrated on your website and other communication platforms, it helps create a synergy across all your internet marketing activity.
Twitter– Fast Facts
Important things you need to know about Twitter include:
- 50 million tweets per day – an average of 600 tweets per second
- access Twitter through more than 50,000 third-party Internet and mobile applications
- integrate Twitter seamlessly on your site with Javascript
- Twitter is indexed by leading Search Engines Google, Yahoo and Bing
Twitter – Social Media Features
Social Media Works can enhance your Twitter company page with customised background images that look good on any medium from mobile phones to netbooks to 30″ monitors. A professional looking Twitter background can tell people a lot about your brand in an instant. We can create a Twitter background to fit your brand image and keep your company branding uniform across all your Web 2.0 activities.
*As at 22 February 2010
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