Twitter

Twitter is a new social networking website that enables users to post a short headline about an event happening within their environment. That's it. The website is easy to use, but the concept takes a while to understand.

Twitter enables anybody to send out a headline that all their subscribers can read. It's a fantastic "word of mouth" e-marketing tool with tremendous business advantages:

• Quicker than email
• Very accessible
• Easier to read
• Interesting innovative concept
• Connect to millions of other users including celebrities
• Hugely successful for: product launches, breaking news, interesting websites and time sensitive information etc

The most effective twitter example I know of is the Bakery that twitters when new bread and new cakes are ready to purchase. The baker posts a message on twitter that 1000's of customers read prompting them to come and buy their fresh bread - hot out of the oven. At least 1 of them is likely to be hungry!

http://dvice.com/archives/2009/04/uk-bakery-uses.php

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