Twitter is an online way of communicating with family, friends, co-workers and other people around the world, just like Facebook or Myspace. Someone posts a status update and that person’s followers will see it and they can respond and ask questions to that person instantly.
Business – used as a public relations channel, to share ideas and to see what people are saying about the company
Social – used for friends and family to let each other know what’s going on in their life
Entertainment – used for athletes, movie stars and other famous people to announce possible exciting news. People that are obsessed with a famous person follow that famous person and see what they post
News – if there are any crisis events going on in the world, such as swine flu, people use twitter to post that information
Recreational – leaders of a community use twitter to inform other members of the community of events that are going on
Twitter can easily be abused all the time. It can be abused by people posting bad and hurtful stuff about other people. Athletes also use it to talk “smack” about other athletes. Possible repercussions can be a suspension from twitter and in some cases, if severe enough, being banned from twitter.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/03/4-ways-companies-use-twitter-for-business.php
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment