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Does your website need Twitter?

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For a while now the debate has raged about Twitter. Is it useful? Is it just a waste of time? What is the true value of Twitter for your business?

Although not necessarily our view, This mock-trailer for the fake movie, dubbed The Twit Network, pokes fun at the inanity of some tweets' content, our collective self-absorption, our obsession with celebrities and the painful convention of affixing "tw-" to beginning of any word related to social media.

“tw-” is the new “i-”.  Where will all of this end!?!

5 Billion Tweets for Twitter

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Twitter recently announced that it’s popular microblogging service had sent it’s five billionth tweet! That’s 5,000,000,000 messages!

If you have been living under a rock and don’t know what a Twitter or Tweet is than go over and check them out.

Twitter is a microblogging service that allows you to keep all of your followers (read friends and business colleagues) up to date with your latest thoughts and musings. It’s also a great tool for promoting your business, but it has to be used in the right way.

Blatent advertising or “commercial spam” often leads to your account being banned – the folks at Twitter have a low tolerance for in your face advertising because that’s not what it’s about.

If you want more information on learning how to use Twitter, Facebook and other Social Platforms for your business marketing, then contact us.

Twitter Spam

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You can now report Twitter users for Spam.

Spam has been an ever growing problem on Twitter as more and more people start using it purely for commercial reasons – and that was never the intention of Twitter.

Every profile now has a Report Spam button listed on it – so you can now block and report those annoying spammers!

Twitter as a GPS for Social Media and Networking

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At the #140conf events, they look at twitter as a platform and as a language we speak. Over time it will neither be the only platform nor the only language. #140conf is not an event about microblogging or the place where people share twitter "tips and techniques" but rather where they explore the effects of the real-time Internet on Business.