Twitter Basics – What You Need To Know About Web 2.0’s Newest And Most Popular Social Tool

Why are many people looking for information regarding Twitter basics? What is this thing called Twitter, in the first place? More importantly, what is the marketing significance of this funny sounding word?

Twitter is the newest of the Web 2.0 technologies that has swept the nation – and the world – in such a short time. Twitter is also the newest darling of the internet marketing crowd as online businessmen have realized the sheer potential of this one-of-a-kind messaging platform.

Want is Twitter? Twitter, with its official website at www.twitter.com, is a new kind of online tool for interconnection. Basically, you can opt to “follow” and be “followed” by other users. When you post a message on your Twitter page, everyone who’s following you will be able to see your message, called a “tweet.” Whenever someone you’re following posts a message, you – together with the subject’s other followers – will be able to see the said message or “tweet.” This, in a nutshell, is how Twitter works.

Sounds pretty simple?

Well, no really. Aside from being able to send and read messages via your Twitter page, you can also send and receive messages via SMS. With Twitter, you can keep literally keep in touch with your followers wherever they may be, and wherever you may be. You don’t have to be in front of the PC. Your cellular phone is more than enough for you to send some “tweets.”

Here are some very interesting Twitter basics that you must know:

The philosophy behind Twitter is for it to become the “SMS of the internet.” Each tweet has a maximum of 140 characters. Tweeters are compelled to shorten their messages, and readers are given a message that’s easier to read because of its brevity.

Twitter is the 3rd most popular – and most utilized – Web 2.0 website, next only to Facebook and Myspace. Expertes estimate Twitter’s number of members to be within the 4 million to 5 million range.

Twitter is dubbed as the fastest growing website on the internet as of this writing. Its growth rate as of February, 2009, has reached almost 1,400%.

The LA Fire Department, NASA, and even Barrack Obama’s presidential campaign utilized Twitter as a tool that can easily disseminate information across a wide audience.
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Did you know that people are just beginning to realize the full potentials of Twitter? Imagine these…
The Cleveland Cavaliers updating the events of its games via Twitter. Scores can be broadcasted in real time. Player updates can be published as they happen. News can be conveyed as quickly as they transpire.

Corporate meetings transmitting their minutes to stockholders all over the world, again in real time.

Software developers providing updates of a digital product in development, yet again in real time.

Twitter can be as prominent and as ubiquitous as emails, instant messaging systems, and even SMS. This is what makes it a great tool that internet marketers are just beginning to exploit.

By: Samantha Milner

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