2Twitter is one of the fastest growing micro blogging platform on the Internet. It is completely free to use and very easy to sign up. It is also a site that allows users to network with each other and to help current business relationships to deepen in growth. Twitter allows you to send mini messages through their website, your cell phone using text messaging, desktop program clients and through instant messaging application clients that provides a variety of handy features. Twitter also allow you to send direct personal messages other users without having other users reading the message. Twitter is great for those that do not blog or have a website for their business. It can help to keep potential customers updated on upcoming sales and other tidbits of information. Also having the ability to follow others in similar businesses to see what they are communicating about. Twitter asks a question of what are you doing and allows the user to write an update of what it is that they are doing. The reason why the updates are called Twitter as it is like a bird is chirping and chatting away.
- Visit the site by going to http://twitter.com and sign-up by clicking on the Get Started-Join button.Create a profile and be sure to type in your business contact information and website address.To find people that you know who uses the service and you would like to follow them, go to the upper right hand side of the website, click on the highlighted option of “Find & Follow”. You can check for people through your email network contact list.To invite people to follow you on Twitter click on the tab “Invite by Email” and enter their email address.To find people to follow, click in the search box in the upper right hand corner of the site, and enter in keywords of interest.To view the person's profile, click on their icon and it will take you to their Twitter profile page.To follow a person, click on the button that says “follow”.To unfollow a person click on the button that says “unfollow” to stop following the person.
