Saturday, July 5, 2008

Twitter for You, Your Biz and More!

A couple of months ago I discovered Twitter. I had seen on people's blog or web site "Follow Me On Twitter" well I wanted to see what Twitter was all about!

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as tweets) which are text-based posts, ranging up to 140 characters long.
You can be public or private with Twitter.

People choose to follow you on Twitter and you can choose to follow people and well it is just the neatest thing. According to Wikipedia more and more people are using Twitter for many different reasons. Everyone from Dell Computers to CNN to the Los Angeles Fire Department are using Twitter.

For example, lets say you have a couple of blogs that you have and you have a lot of readers or even a few readers, when you sign up for Twitter you can send out a Tweet everytime you post an entry in your blog. See you can include a link in your Tweets! Or you have family and friends in your circle that you want to keep up with privately you can also do that on Twitter.

The uses for Twitter are unlimited. Businesses are using Twitter to keep their customers informed. Almost any business can in some way use Twitter. Individual's and groups can also benefit from Twitter. Make sure you determine whether your profile or group should be private or public and then reap the benefits of Twitter.

Some Twitter Reading:
Twitter Fan Wiki
Business all aTwitter
Tweet Your Pain

1 comment:

Los Angeles Fire Department said...

Elizabeth,

Thank you for including mention of the Los Angeles Fire Department's use of Twitter .

Respectfully Yours in Safety and Service,

Brian Humphrey
Firefighter/Specialist
Public Service Officer
Los Angeles Fire Department

LAFD Blog: lafd.blogspot.com