Fifty Down-to-Business Uses for Twitter

by admin August 22, 2008

Looking for tips on how to make Twitter work for your business? Here’s a quick fifty ideas from Chris Brogan’s blog. The tips are broken down into categories such as: first steps, what to tweet, and the Twitter-positive arguments to the most common Twitter cons you’ll come across. The post is a great primer for someone who’s itching to join the conversation and is looking for what to do to get started. Now go get twittering….
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  1. Twitter stepped in and took over the real-time information aspect of social media, something that even news websites had failed to execute. The witnesses and participants of events were now ‘tweeting’ their experiences as they were occurring, giving audiences with pure insight and uncensored content. Although Twitter feels like a lose end waiting to be tied, its remarkably exponential world-wide development will sustain its community and – more importantly – create a connection among audiences that neither Facebook nor any other media can get close to achieve.

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