Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Critical Review of Twitter

Twitter has become a very popular website used by numerous teens all around the world. By using twitter it allows people to fell connected to our friends and families lives. On twitter you can share short updates about what is happening in your life and follow what your friends may be doing.You can also see different sides of your friends and family members and also learn things about them that you had not known previously. THe updates are always short and to the point with up to 140 characters. Twitter makes it faster for you to see what those close to you are doing without reading long messages. It is also used in the business world, in fact it is used in four different ways just for business's. The four ways it is used in business consist of direct, indirect, internal, and signaling.
Some companies are using twitter for marketing or public relations channel. They will dsitribute links that will take people to corporate web pages and it is known to be the easiest way to begin. Dell, Starbucts and Jetblue are a few businesses that are known to have used this form of twitter.The second method which is the indirect method is to let their employees to use twitter to enhance their own personal reputations. This can also affect the employees negatively which may get them in trouble with the boss.The Internal method is used to communicate and share ideas about certain projects that they are working on . The last way that businesses use twitter is by the method of signaling by listening to certain things on twitter using certain tools that allow you to keep track of what is being said on twitter.

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