What is Twitter?

There seems to be a lot of hype about Twitter these days so, what is Twitter anyway? In my previous blog entry, we showed an image that shows twitter increasing at 750+ percent. The question is why? What is twitter and why would I want to tweet? Why are there nearly 4 million people tweeting away on twitter?

Twitter in Plain English

Stumbling around the net, I found a couple other articles about twitter. Rebecca Reisner writes in Business Week that Frank Eliason, a customer service manager for Comcast, is using twitter to aid in customer support and that other companies are following suit. You may also want to take a look at How Much Twitter is Too Much? Another one that you may find interesting is that Twitter just hired their first business development guru who’s been “… hired in part to handle the “crushing amount” of partnership proposals that Twitter receives.”.

It’s very easy to tie up a lot of time in social networking. If it’s set up and used wisely, it can also save time, maintain relationships and provide solutions while increasing productivity. Like everything else, these too will only be what we make of them.

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