The first time I heard about “Twitter” is in Times magazine covering news about the Iranian presidential election and how protesters used Twitter as a communication tool with the outside world after the government blocked peoples’ access to several modes of communication. I was curious what Twitter is that time but also lazy to check my dictionary what it actually means. That was back in July 2009.
It was brought to my attention by my internet marketing community in CarbonCopyPro in September 2009 as one of the most effective way and free / low costs advertising tool. That is when I start registering an account with Twitter.
When I get onto this site, I was totally “blurred”. It is very different from other social networking websites that we had been to, such as facebook, friendster, etc. It was also called a micro-blogging website but I don’t personally agree with that. What you can do is constantly (if you want to and not afraid of being asked to stop by your friends and followers) updating your status and whatever information that you want your followers to know. These messages will be sent to them and keep them informed of your condition at that particular instant. Twitter is link to hand phone as well as a result each message we sent is limited to 140 characters so it got to be short and concise. All these messages will be sent directly to your followers’ page on internet or their hand phone (if they link both service to one another). That gives the reasons for certain people to complain about Twitter for being too connected with their friends and also the surging phone bills. It could be quite annoying if your friends and acquaintances keep updating their little trivial things while you are having a wonderful dinner with your loved one.
Twitter
is so popular to the extent that the site can actually “down” or experience an outage for overloading messages transmitting through Twitter. The signal for such outage will be a screen picturing an overweight whale being lifted up by some red little birds. Can you imagine how many people are using it and the popularity of the site? To the extent to make it “down”.
You can use the site to keep track of the most popular trend among the Twitter community. But I find that people used Twitter for business marketing purposes more than social networking. More than 50% of my followers keep sending me various auto-set marketing messages everyday. It is so many that sometimes I can receive more than 50 in a second. But it is a great tool for marketing, no doubt. That is why, people are using it to find information and cool stuffs.
If you have ample time and don’t know how and where to use it. Why not join the Twitter community to tweet and re-tweet messages? My advice, do it if you are ready to be overwhelmed by heaps of messages from all over the world.
p/s: entrepreneurs wanted, http://oneyearplan.net/Andrew
