Twitter by Duaa Mustafa

    Twitter is a social site like Face book and My Space helps connect people with each other through short text messages does not exceed 140 characters display on the user page . Twitter is characterized also feature relay in the sense there you follow on it care about what is posted on the site and vice versa, meaning that there are those who follow them on it so we can get to know each others through Twitter and also gain useful information that is important to us. Users can send and receive messages via twitter website, smart phones and PCs .And users can reply or comment on other user's messages through @ sign followed the user name, for example: if I want to reply on "S" message I will write @ "S" then I write my comment on it. Also users can use hash tag, Know it by the symbol # it allow them group posts together by topic or type.

2009 by team O’Relly and Sarah Milstein



    (According to Darren Rowse) There are many benefits of twitter: the first one is, research tool:Twitter is the way that it allows to tap into an amazing community of people from around the world to find out what they are thinking, feeling and experiencing in different ways. Secondly, Branding: how a personal online brand is made up of the many ’strands’ of ‘presence’ that you have. Thirdly, Collaboration and Networking: many opportunities to interact with amazingly talented, smart and insightful people on Twitter. Finally, Direct traffic: Twitter helps to strengthen the links between the others through retweets to a message someone posted on the site, thus acting as the promotion of the person.

2011 TwiTip.

   Practical Ways Twitter Can Help Your Business This is where it gets interesting. A lot of people are doing some very innovate things with Twitter. Here are some of their stories. (According to Cindy King), an international sales specialist, saw a huge boost in business inquires by implementing a strategic Twitter plan.” Following the right people on Twitter was key . There are some people very gifted at building relationships on Twitter. As I followed these online community builders, I realized that some of them are also excellent direct response copywriters. They get their Twitter followers to take action,” said King. “Light bulbs went off, and I spent a weekend putting together a tweet marketing plan and entered in 6 weeks worth of tweets, 5 a day, using Tweet Later. I used a mind map, created categories, varied times on tweets and used BUDurls so I could track results and improve my tweet plan the next time around. That was a month ago,” explained King. When King finds a spare minute between projects, she logs into Twitter and watches what folks are talking about. When she Tweets, about 90 percent of the time she presents useful information and resources to her followers. The remaining tweets are surveys and questions. Following this strategy, King saw an 800 percent increase in inquiries about her business after her setup her Twitter campaign.


    In the end twitter has contributed in many aspects of social, economic and political. Have conributed to the social aspect of the communication and people regard each other, either in economic terms has contributed to support and promote products and services to companies such as Pepsi-Cola , Jet Blue,and others, either in political terms has played an effictive role of communication to the recent events that have occured in Egypt and Tunisia to stand with the people and achieve their demands.

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