Twitter

In as little as five or so years, Twitter has become mainstream. It has established itself as an everyday part of many people’s lives.  It can be used for social, business, entertainment, news, and recreational purposes. 
Honestly, I believe Twitter should only be used for business purposes.  Most people will say how they don’t understand how a 140 characters responding to the question “What are you doing now?” can grow your product or business.  It provides incredible networking and helps make new customers.  It also gets your product or business out into the public for little to no money at all.

Titter is also used as a social tool for many people.  I believe that tweeters tend to overuse this aspect of twitter by answering the “What are you doing now?” question with showing, sleeping or anything to that extent.  Many people don’t care what you’re doing minute by minute.

Entertainment is also a main factor to Twitter.  Many tweets can entertain users and can provide valuable information for news purposes. One example of an entertaining tweet would be a sports player talking smack to another by tweeting their opinions or feelings.  An example of a news purpose for twitter if someone just got robbed and tweeted “I have been robbed, stay out of the Townsville area because he is on the prowl.”  

Twitter can also be used for recreational purposes.  One way you can do this is to post sport scores on their twitter account.  An example of this would be posting your high school soccer team’s record or game score as your tweet to inform other users.

As you can see, Twitter has many uses for a variety of different people.  Overall I believe businesses benefit most from Twitter.  Twitter will keep growing bigger and bigger and will increase the amount of businesses that use Twitter as a tool to market.