Brad Hauck | Mr Web Marketing

What Is This Website Twitter That So Many People Are Talking About?

As a website owner, you have heard that many businesses have started marketing through a website called Twitter. Twitter can be found by simply going to twitter.com. What is this popular website that so many people are talking about?

Twitter is a social networking website that is based around mini blogs. A blog is a way to share information on the Internet. Full length blogs can be found all across the Internet on websites by using popular blogging sites such as blogger.com wordpress.com.

Twitter is a place to blog, but it limits the number of characters you can use in your post. Characters are limited to no more than 140 per post. On Twitter, you follow other users other users follow you. It is a place to share your thoughts, what you are doing, where you are going information you have found on the Internet that you find valuable. The posts made on Twitter are known as tweets.

Many users think of Twitter as a way to text message on the Internet. Twitter does not make public the number of users that the site has, but estimates say that Twitter has approximately five million users that number continues to grow as the site gains popularity. It is ranked in popularity right up there with other social networking websites Facebook Myspace.

Twitter can be updated from many other technologies aside from your personal business computer. Twitter can be updated from your mobile phone, iphone other mobile type technologies making it a valuable tool for website business owners on the go.

Twitter can be used to share personal business information. There has been a rash of rumors floating around lately that Twitter is going to start charging people that use their service for business purposes. There are disagreeing opinions all across the Internet on whether not this will ever happen. As of right now though, Twitter is free to use whether you use it for business personal reasons.

The latest Internet marketing trends show that websites such as Twitter are going to continually grow be used by more businesses to market. If you are using are planning to market your business through social networking, using Twitter is a must have.

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