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The Micro Blogging Craze

Posted on 21. Jan, 2010 by Mike J in twitter

There are few trends that have taken the web by storm as quickly as Twitter. According to Compete.com Twitter received more than 8 million page views in February 2009 and this was up from less than 5 million in December of 2008. If you or your company does not have a Twitter account, get one right now.  There are thousands of web professionals, marketers and bloggers who have already jumped on the Twitter train, including large media outlets.  Jetblue airlines has over 325,000 followers and the New York Times has over 500,000.

Don’t pass this up Twitter is like having a blog, it just happens to have a 140 character limit to each post.  With many of the same guidelines that regular blogs have, they apply to this medium as well.  It may not be the best platform to earn an income on although it can be very powerful,  Just keep your pitches to a minimum. I think the better way to use it is building brand awareness along with product updates and news.  A great tool for using Twitter on your desktop that has url stortening built in is TweetDeck.com and it’s FREE.  One of the great things is that TweetDeck takes advantage of is theoutstanding  search properties of Twitter. You can have multiple searches running at the same time monitoring the buzz on what ever you are interested in.

Do you use Twitter?  If so how has it help you or your brand?

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Tags: Micro Blogging, Social Media, TweetDeck, twitter