What Is Twitter
What Is Twitter – One of the most highly touted social networking sites on the Internet right now is Twitter.
So What is Twitter?
Twitter is many things to many people so it might be useful to mention a few of the current definitions floating around the Internet and blogosphere:
Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time. According to Wikipedia, Twitter “is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets” of up to 140 characters.
According to the Twitter FAQ, Twitter “is for staying in touch and keeping up with friends no matter where you are or what you’re doing.” Twitter is the latest social-networking craze and it is based on a very simple question: What are you doing?”
In a nutshell, Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate, follow each other and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
With Twitter, you can stay hyper–connected to your friends and always know what they’re doing. Or, you can stop following them any time. You can even set quiet times on Twitter so you’re not interrupted.
But what appears to have gone unnoticed for some time is that Twitter can be an incredibly powerful marketing & community building tool which can enable you to develop your brand, build relationships with your audience and promote your products.
In particular, List Building with Twitter is a snap, once you know all the little secrets, and Twitter Tools, that will make your list building almost automatic!
The key thing you want to remember, is, if you want to build a list with Twitter, you must use a little bit of finesse. You have to use your head, and respond to tweeple, and help your followers solve their problems, and and not be someone who is just blasting out ads. So you need to get to know some folks, and twitter “responsibly”.
Twitter users have also developed their own language called Twitterspeak, Ever read a twiller? Having twissues with your twerminology? Click on Twitterspeak to get a list of 66 current Twitter terms.
