Friday, October 25, 2013

Twitter


Nicholas Cutrone

Twitter

                Twitter is a social networking site that is designed so that the owner of the account can post what they are feeling of what is going on in their life. But Twitter can be used for business and not just personal events. It is a networking tool that allows businesses to promote their products and or services and can allow people to just let the public know what is going on in their day.

                Twitter provides businesses opportunities to get their business itself out to the public or new products or services that they want the public to start getting interested in. Businesses also take these opportunities to offer discounts or deals for their products so that they will go and order products from their company online or come to the store. There is a function on twitter called re-tweeting which allows users that see a post that is interesting to repost it on their account so their followers can also see it. This is an advantage to businesses because if the first person who sees it finds the offer or product interesting they can re-tweet it and then their followers will see the promotion and the company will get more business therefore receiving more revenue. Twitter makes it more convenient for both the business itself and the consumer because it allows the consumer to get in direct contact with the company without having to go to the store and finding out information through customer service or having to call up customer service.

                The positives to Twitter on a social aspect is that you are able to let your friends or family know what you are doing currently, where you just were, or what events are happening in your future. If you are a sports player Twitter can allow you to inform your class mates when your games are to come down and support your team and if they miss the game you can let them know who won and what the score was and who were the key players of the game were. Twitter also has photo-sharing services as TwitPic to allow the user to share photos with their friends so they can see not just know what you are doing.

                Twitter can also be entertaining to the user. If a user of twitter is bored they can look at all the tweets that have been posted in the past few hours by the people they are following because a lot of the time there will be posts that will be hilarious and make them laugh. They can also use twitter to tweet their followers or the people they are following funny things to make them laugh or try to make them respond to the tweet.

                Twitter is can be a good source for news because you can follow the page for an actual news crew and find out what is going on without watching the news or you can get the weather and if you are a sports fan and want to know what is going on with a team or a specific player that you follow.

                Twitter is a recreational social media because it can be used to notify people of recreational events that are coming up and for the same reasons in the entertaining sections that you can tweet your friends and see the tweets that your friends make.

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