What is Twitter?

It took me quite a while to find out what twitter is all about. Too long in fact. I was once again late to the party as it was with blogging πŸ™‚ These days I try to be active in twitter and find that its fun to know about people you know in a more personal and informal way. More than that, its supposed to be a marketing meduim that social media gurus are talking about, and a medium to get live reviews of people using your service or products.

Anyways, what is twitter? is a question that I get everyday these days. Twitter means something to everyone. For me, its a huge public chat room combined with people answering the simple question “What are you doing?”. You can interact with huge companies like Yahoo!(@yahoo), Dell(@dell) and ton other individuals. Twitter is one of the first places where breaking news is reported by people like you and me from groud zero. Mumbai Attacks, Hudson Crash and many others were reported accuratly and quickly by twitter users.

Watch the video Twitter in plain english for a basic and awesome explanation.

For webmasters, its godsend. If one of your blog posts go viral, it will be visited by ton of new visitors expanding your brand reach and followings.

For individuals, let your friends across the world know what you are upto and find out if your boss like gardening or your ex-boyfriend still cares about his pet cobra πŸ˜‰

For Corporates, find out what your clients think about your brand, service or products.

But being the person who loves to dwell in the supernatural and sub-conscious, I am interested in analysing the data millions of users put into twitter everyday. Its like a mind dump of emotions, feelings and opinions and thoughts. Scary as it is, twitter might soon be able to predict how much time on average it takes to get over a breakup or how people react to situations and all that based on real inputs across the globe.

Google is a search engine, Twitter is more like a emotion/thoughtsearchΒ  engine. Current news, thoughts and updated information and emotions by the minute can be found on twitter, better than any other place.

Follow me if you are on twitter and put in your profile names in comments so that I can do the same for you too. Looking forward to know about you guys more personally πŸ™‚

Thanks to AravindJose for helping me out with the basics of twitter when I first started off. Follow him too!


Comments

7 responses to “What is Twitter?”

  1. I’m much much more than joyful. Very fortunately, I’ve been onto twitter, relatively early, and that made me a better person on Web.

    Twitter is life changing.

    And the greatest quality of twitter is that, you can’t describe it in words. It’s to be experienced, to be loved.

  2. Follow me here http://www.twitter.com/shobankr πŸ™‚ I am getting adicted to Twitter day by day

  3. @ Aravind…..Twitter is indeed life changing, but I still am confused why people would like to know what I am up to right now πŸ™‚ for news coverage, its hot!

    @ shoban Me too!

  4. David Gary Avatar

    In your blog I seen “Join my 1825Subscribers”
    This is mis leading, isn’t it? How can I trust in this feedmatter, unless you don’t seen direct feedburner logo. This text can be easy to right manually? isn’t it?

  5. check /. as the first thing in the morning and you won’t miss such things. I reached here while searching for something else. good luck.

  6. Great article. All can have a great read of @joelcomm book Twitter Power

    We are in Twitter:
    twitter.com/humsurfer_buzz
    twitter.com/digwin.com

  7. @David Gary, I have included the feedburner chicklet to the sidebar πŸ™‚ Thanks for raising the question, hope it helps πŸ™‚

    @humsurfer, thanks for chiming in abt the book, I did see it on a few sites, but have not read it yet.

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