Twitter is getting a lot of buzz now, especially after growing more than 130% in the month of March. Thanks to CNN and Kutcher, the growth is expected to be also very significant in April. There are already 14 million unique users in Twitter per compete.com.
“Twitter lets people know what’s going on about things they care about instantly, as it happens,” Evan Williams, Twitter’s CEO, told The New York Times. “In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient.”
It is not just the numbers that is impressive, it is how influential it has become over the last couple months. There are many stories that breaks first in Twitter than any other media, and people connecting real time together.
There are still many discussion going on whether or not the microblogging service makes a useful business tool. However, one thing is indisputable that Twitter is gaining a lot of attraction among early adopters and influential people, so it is worthy to take a close eye on this amazing new platform.
A survey of Twitter users from MarketingProfs tells that on a scale from 1 to 5 (with 1 for strongly disagree and 5 and for strongly agree), the phrase “I find it exciting to learn new things from people” averaged a score of 4.65 and “I value getting information in a timely manner” averaged 4.58. It clearly shows that Twitter is not the best place to close a sales in one shot, but it is a very good tool to create credibility, expand your network and eventually increase your exposure which are key to any successful web entrepreneurs like you.
Below you can find couple interesting links for Twitter if you want to read more.
NYT article: How Twittering can help you at work
Measuring What Really Works on Twitter: Post Timing and Headlines
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