Tweets on twitter

I have been on twitter for three months, yet became an active user only last week. Guess the exams did quite have a positive effect on me for I simply love it. I was talking about twitter.

Twitter, which is soon making its way to become one of the most popular microblogging platforms has got me hooked. I feel commercial enterprises as well as entrepreneurs can really benefit from it in a LOT of ways. For start-ups, this can be the perfect way to keep in touch with thousands of people consisting of many social marketers, net geeks, other young entrepreneurs, update them on current happenings and it can act like the perfect platform for a start up story. It can also help existing players to promote their products. It could help get volunteers together and spread the word about contests etc. It helps keep in touch with a lot of people at once. Not as formal and rigid as linkedin, not as cluttered as orkut, its pretty.

For students this is a great opportunities to connect to some of the biggest names out there. Did you know Barack Obama is on twitter and has nearly 12000 followers and follows a similar number(though I seriously doubt that). Guy Kawasaki, Kiruba Shankar, Scobel....yada yada, they are all there...giving it a try, and far more responsive on twitter than on their personal blogs :P

From a personal point of view, its a far better way to advertise your blog posts through twitter for a majority of people might not have subscribed to your feeds and hence reach a larger audience quicker.

At the end of the day though, twitter does an effective job of pissing you off too. Cummon, accept it. It does crack their vein up. It gets really annoying and irritating because people just go on and on and nothing is structured. Who the hell said chaos is good?

But I'd still say its just in its early phases and has the potential to become something really big. This can become the ultimate social networking space, but as is the case with all social networks these days, it will get hit by the application bug. That will get people attracted though personally it will just destroy the simplicity of this wonderful application.

Twitter, with its mash-up with cell phones, you can update it through SMS, and now the great thing is you can do it in India too at local rates. So this makes live blogging so much more simpler. You don't need wi-fi or a laptop anymore. This was what saved a journalist who got into some serious trouble with the Egyptian authorities a while back and was thrown into jail. Twitter helped save his life get the embassies to his rescue.

Next Conquest lets Twitter it up then!

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