What is Twitter?

Twitter in a nutshell is a simple social networking website that lets you share with your friends know what you’re doing – right now!  Hence the old catch phrase on the Twitter sign-up page – “What are you doing?” Think of Twitter as - Facebook, instant messaging and sms all rolled into one simple package. 

Twitter works on a time line which is displayed on a single page that’s updated every second of every minute of every hour….you get the point. It’s a constantly updated stream of news from people all around the world. As a member, you can add your own little message to the time line up to 140 characters long to it known as a "tweet".

But you’re not able to see every Twitter user’s Tweets. You can choose who you want to “Follow” and others can choose to "Follow" you. And it’s these followers who you can "converse" (tweet) with.

“wow, big deal”

You might be thinking “wow, big deal” but there is massive potential in this mini social networking site to meet other like-minded people, share info and web site links. And those factors mixed with the ability to grow your followers make it a perfect platform for business.

You can also use Twitter to…. 

• Send direct messages to users instead of broadcasting to everyone
• Mobile options to send and receive tweets via SMS and email from your cellphone
• Search options allowing you to find Twitter users posting about a certain topic,

It’s has been taking the world by storm for sometime and there is a great potential for business owners, online and off, so if you’re not a member yet, sign up for a free Twitter account now before you go any further. 

To Tweet or not to Tweet, that then becomes the question.