How Social Media Can Boost Your Business

November 20, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

These days there are those who would argue you would have to be living under the proverbial rock to not have at least heard of social media. Even those out there who arent even slightly internet savvy have heard of Facebook or MySpace. Social media are the tools that are utilised by just such sites, and there is an increasing number of businesses out there that are developing a presence in this field as well.
With a tool such as Facebook there are businesses out there that are developing enormous followings, and this is an advantageous step to take. If you have everything in good working order, and you are well connected with your customers, then social media gives you an opportunity to feel updates directly to your customers own pages. This makes it one of the easiest possible ways to keep your customers or potential customers up to date with everything you are doing, all from the one place and simultaneously. Even email cant boast being quite so streamlined!
Another popular new social media tool that has taken off in a big way, is Twitter. This is toll that sends out short messages, around 140 characters max. To those linked into receive your updates. As with Facebook this is a direct line of communication with your customers, and if you are clever with how you use these short and sharp tweets you can get your message across to your customers in a witty and succinct format. There is also the possibility for those interested to have this linked into their mobile phones, receiving your twitters as text messages. For the originator of the tweet, it is possible to link your tweets into your web page or blog via an RSS feed.
This brings us to the other social media platform that has shown phenomenal expansion over the last little while, blogging. Few of us arent familiar with blogging these days, so the question that many are asking is how it is of benefit to a business. Well as with Facebook or Twitter this is a great format that allows direct communication with customers.
Creating a business blog however, allows you to go much further than this. For starters a blog is not limited to 140 characters! That said, a blog provides you with the opportunity to show your expertise in your area of business. You can communicate new ideas and developments to your customers and communicate with them via the blog space. Customers have the opportunity to leave comments and this allows you to develop better understanding of their particular needs.
These are only a few of the social media opportunities that are available, there is a number of others that are also worthwhile exploring if you are serious about using this format to grow your business. If you are ready to start linking in with customer and expanding and developing your direct communications, then these options are worth taking the time to explore. As marketing tools go these are some of the cheapest and easiest forms of direct communication tools around. Investigate which options to pursue, and consider the fairly small outlay for getting these up and running. Especially these tools may hold great appeal for the small business owner with the bottom line to consider.

Deep Arora is an Internet marketer with over 7 years of online experience and he teaches internet marketing from his blog at HowIDid.com. Check out his blog for some amazing techniques today..

Using Your Online Marketing Blog to Promote Your Business

November 20, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

One of the very best ways you can promote your business these days is through the use of an online marketing blog, designed to direct readers and potential customers to your business by developing relationship, gaining trust, and being in general a useful resource for those looking for what you have to offer. What are some of the ways you can use your blog to promote your business? Let’s take a quick look.Perhaps the best way is to create a blog that visitors determine to be an authority in your market or niche. These types of sites are returned to again and again, bookmarked, (thus providing you with all-important backlinks) and are where the modern consumer is getting much of their information all the way through the buying process. If you’ve created the kind of blog that is trustworthy, not attempting to sell your visitors every second, and offers genuinely useful information, you’ll soon find that not only will you be gaining in popularity, but you’ll be doing  less and less to gain that notoriety. Your customers and visitors will be doing it for you. Such is the way of the Social Web. People talk, text, Tweet and otherwise spread the word. Just make sure they’re talking about you and your blog!Your blog should be a great place to dispense free nuggets of information that will be is use to your readers. However, be sure that the ultimate carrot lies awaits them at your main business site. In all cases direct your interested visitors to your business through the use of giveaways, contests, special offers, coupons, sales, limited time promotions and more. People love to feel as though they’re getting tremendous value for their time and money. Make sure you strive to offer both!Make sure you optimize your marketing blog so it will rank in the search engines as well. Make sure you’re always on the lookout for linking opportunities, and utilizing other SEO methods to make sure your blog is found within the first few pages of the search results. Write and distribute new and fresh content all the time and try to get it syndicated, thus improving your blogs reach. Have guest bloggers contribute and do the same on blogs related to yours.  Make your blog as interactive as possible. Talk to your visitors, and learn from them. Conduct polls, ask lots of questions; this is a quick and cheap way to conduct market research from some of the most targeted people you can find.Don’t inundate your blog with ads, as this will confuse the purpose of your blog. An exception to this might be high-paid contextual advertising, but be aware that generally anything that takes the visitor away from your blog, unless they’re going to your main site, is not a good thing.  Using an online marketing blog as a tool to help promote your business is a great idea, and one that will bear fruit for years to come. All it costs you is time, and this will be returned to you many times over!

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Google, Twitter, Facebook, Bing – Oh My!!

November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

Today was a big day for Google, Bing, Twitter and Facebook.

To quickly recap:

Bing announced they have made a deal with Twitter AND Facebook to pull their updates into the SERPS (search engine results pages).

Hours later Google announced they too have a deal with Twitter and will be delivering Tweet feeds in the SERPs.

This is exciting and interesting and it confirms one thing: SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Social Media are partners in your success. You shouldn’t neglect either.

No one knows exactly how this is going to play out yet but we’ve all started preparing for it already. Off the top of my head, here are some tips to help you prepare.

Since we don’t know how they will sort through the massive volume and pick the tweets to return in the results, we don’t know exactly how to give our tweets the best shot at getting picked up.

Let’s look at a little logic and a little Google knowledge.

They like history and they like quality. They also like volume.

So, get an account now if you don’t have one already. Get as much history in as you can. Accounts that have been around longer with more tweet history (and more followers) may fare better. (PLEASE don’t go overboard – the last thing we need is people to start keyword stuffing mass volumes of tweets).

Tweet often but keep it natural – and tweet quality. Tweet when you have something to ask, share or teach.

Use keywords – but don’t stuff with keywords. If the tweets are about your industry, you should be using keywords naturally anyway.

If you are going to retweet your messages at different times of the day to be more likely to catch your audience, make sure you vary them a little bit (and again, don’t go overboard).

Use links in your tweets back to your site (to relevant content on your site) and share the link love – link to other quality sites out there. Make sure you use your keyword in your bio and if you are just setting up your username, maybe in your username too? This may or not help. Again, I must say – do not stuff keywords anywhere – not in tweets, not in your bio, not in your username.

This is a good thing, but if people abuse it and bring the overall quality of Twitter down, we will all be sorry.

If you have a feed that sends your tweets to Facebook, or your Facebook status to Twitter, you may want to consider turning it off. If you have the same message in both places you are missing an opportunity for Bing to pick up both. If they are unique, you have 2 chances to get in there!

So, get tweeting and Facebooking! It’s going to be a fun ride!

Jennifer Horowitz, Dir. of Marketing for EcomBuffet.com, has written a book on SEO and has been published in many SEO & Marketing publications. She is the editor of Spotlight on Success: SEO & Marketing newsletter. Over the past 10 years Jennifer’s expertise in marketing & Search Engine Optimization has helped clients increase revenue. Follow Jennifer and stay current on SEO, marketing, social media & more. http://twitter.com/EcomBuffet

SEO for the new Bing/Twitter Collaboration

November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

I feel like a kid in a candy store, which hasn’t happened in a long, and I mean long, time. What has spurred this sudden joy? A collaboration of grand proportions, I tell you.

Bing, the new “decision” search engine, has fully integrated Twitter posts into search listings. I find this very interesting as I’m sure it will be beneficial for internet marketing, specifically Bing search engine optimization (SEO). The question is — how? 

For one, I believe we will see far more keyword-rich Tweets (Twitter posts) along with the inherent spam placements, which will need to be addressed in some way. Instead of simply posting on Twitter, many companies and individuals will spend more time researching their target market and strategically constructing entries. Previously, the intention of a Tweet was to attraction human attention, thus the posts resembled such. Now it’s a whole new ball game. 

Secondly, the frequency of entries will surely increase by a large margin. Due to Bing displaying recent/relative Tweets, the more Tweets the better. Rather than posting 5 times per week, companies will make 20 posts. More posts on Twitter = more traffic, each user will spend more time on the site, Twitter will benefit from increased website rank and advertisers will find the site more appealing. I predict an elaborate advertising platform will be launched soon, which will do well given increased website traffic/exposure. Mark my word. 

I will continue to research internet marketing with Bing/Twitter and will keep everyone updated. Be sure to sign-up for my newsletter and check back often for case studies and research on utilizing Bing/Twitter to increase traffic/revenue. 

 

Sincerely,

Aaron Schoenberger

The Brainchild Group – Internet Marketing Company specializing in Professional SEO, Website Design, Online Marketing Campaigns, Restaurant Marketing, Law Firm Marketing

Microsoft Add Bing Ability With Twitter Feed

November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

Bing, Microsoft’s search engine now has a new capability with the addition of a live Twitter feed. With this additional capacity, Bing can search for Tweet on Twitter with a simple and real time.

According to Microsoft spokesman Paul Yiu, the new service will also be presented to the popular social networking sites such as Facebook.

“Bing presents the most recent search index, giving him a chance to explore the entire web in real time,” Yiu said, as quoted from ZD Net, Thursday (22/10/2009).

“Explosion of the popularity of Twitter is the best example of this kind of opportunity. Twitter generate millions tweet every minute with a variety of subjects you can imagine. We recognize the tweet has a greatness as a form of data that can appear in search engines,” he added.

Yiu was explained, the social networking services like Twitter provide unique access to the ideas and public opinion. This is seen Bing as an opportunity to integrate with Twitter Bing searches so that search engine users have access to the Twitter search easier.

“Usually, if you want to monitor the development of a topic, the user can see through the tweets roll in. Or can also click on the feature ‘Tweets See more about’ to see the entire tweet,” says Yiu.

He mentioned, Bing can replace these functions by displaying the search results Twitter tweet more accurate and faster.

The Bing Twitter service shows a tag cloud of trending topics on Twitter followed by clusters of shared links related to the hottest tweets. At the top is a search bar where you can enter your own search term for which Bing will display the most recent related tweets and the most popular shared links related to the search.

Google followed Bing by announcing some social network indexing of its own. Google also stated that it has come to an agreement with Twitter, but that inclusion of tweets in Google search results could be a couple months out still. The bigger Web 2.0 Summit bomb shell was the unveiling of Google Social Search.

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That’s all of the Twitter about?

November 17, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

 By now if you are not a user of Twitter, you have at least heard of it. It has experienced an almost unbelievable growth in its short lifetime. Twitter is a micro-blog that anyone can participate in. Each post, a tweet, is limited to 140 characters. That’s not very long so it’s pretty easy to read a lot of posts. Twitter asks the question “What are you doing?” Some people actually use it this way… you will see things like “brushing my teeth” or “going to bed” or “eating.” However, most use it to communicate things that they consider more important than those mundane examples.

There is a lot of good and worthwhile information flowing on Twitter every hour of every day. So much, in fact, it’s a bit difficult to keep up with. There is also a surprising number of celebrities (politicians, stars, athletes) using Twitter. You can follow them all and see what they are saying. Even Barack Obama is there, and I believe he is the most followed player.

You follow anyone you want, and people follow you. Of course the more people you follow, the more tweets you will be exposed to, and the harder it will be to develop relationships with your Twitter “friends.” You have the option to communicate privately with a friend (a follower that you are following) by using the Direct Message, or DM feature. All other postings are visible to everyone, but mostly to those following you.

Twitter is so new (started mid 2006) that appropriate Twitter etiquette and protocol is just developing. It is clear that many people have likes and dislikes about what others say and/or do. It seems that the majority of users dislike being contacted automatically with a DM. This is a fairly common practice when saying welcome to new followers, except they don’t like the automatic message because it’s not personal. This can get the relationship off to a bad start. In addition, many don’t like Twitter being used for commerce but I seriously doubt that will stop. Marketers will market where they can if it brings in business. The marketing I see personally does not bother me. Remember it’s limited to 140 characters and real easy to just skip the tweet.

So, should you get involved with Twitter? Why not? It’s going to be here for awhile and it’s growing. About one year ago there were 600,000 users and now the number is somewhere north of 6 million. Twitter subscriber numbers are doubling every month. I say you better jump on now while there is still room. I should warn you though, it can be addicting!

Happy Tweeting!

Wayne Weeks

http://waynestreasuretrove.blogspot.com

 

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What’s so Great About Twitter?

November 16, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

“What are you doing?” This is the question that Twitter asks you upon logging in or upon opening the site. Just what are you doing? If this is how the site charms its members, what’s so great about Twitter?
First, you need to know what the site is. Basically, it is a social network and micro-blogging service. If you are familiar with FaceBook, MySpace, or Multiply, then you’ll have no problems getting into Twitter.
As a social network, it aims to gather groups of people who have the same interests. As a micro-blogging service, it provides short updates on the users blogs, or even just his activities.
Twitter is all about the “tweets”, or updates. Updates are the answers to the ultimate Twitter question: “What are you doing?” What’s great about Twitter is that is only requires you 140 characters to answer the site’s central question. To many, the prescribed length of characters is seen as a limitation. On the other hand, it challenges you to say things using fewer words. After all, less is always more!
So again, what’s so great about Twitter? What makes it different from other social networking sites?
The Terms
The terms that Twitter uses are unique and interesting enough to differentiate the site from other social networks, like “tweet”, for example. Below is a list of Twitter terms that you need to be familiar with:
1.Follower – Those who have chosen to receive your tweets. Simply put, these are your friends who want to be updated about your life.
2.Following – Those whom you want to be updated about. For instance, if you are following Anna, you will receive Anna’s tweets regularly. Following Anna essentially shows that you want to know what Anna is up to as of the moment.
3.Nudge – This is a friendly reminder to your circle, urging them to give out updates. You can nudge, and you can be nudged.
The Commands
The commands used in Twitter are plain and simple, no pesky steps that need to be followed. If you want to tweet, you simply have to write your message in the small box on top of your page.
The registration process? Simply wonderful! You don’t need to key in a number of unimportant pieces of personal information. You just have to be ready with a username (and Twitter checks out the availability of that chosen name right then and there), a password, an email address, and a URL to your personal site or blog, if you have one. The registration process takes no more than 2 minutes of your time.
The Ways to Receive the Tweets
With Twitter, you are provided with more than one way of sending your tweets. This feature is perhaps the most remarkable edge of Twitter. So how can you post your 140-character updates?
1. Through your home page at Twitter.com. – This is the most widely-used method of tweeting. The home page is so friendly and is neat-looking. As such, you aren’t bothered by pesky pop-ups, complicated commands, and useless applications whose sole purpose is to make the page look heavy. Now with such an atmosphere, isn’t it nice to just randomly type in your thoughts? Even tweets such as “I’m bored” are very welcome on Twitter!
2. Through your mobile phone. – Before you can use this feature, you need to verify your number first. It can be done in a few simple steps.
Before you start, however, you initially need to check if your area or country of residence supports this type of service. Surely, those living in the US and Canada will fully enjoy the advantages of this feature.
3. Through http://www.m.twitter.com. – This is Twitter’s mobile site.
4. Through third-party applications. – Twitter Fan Wiki is the most popular third party application that uses Twitter’s API (Application Programming Interface). As it is a “wiki”, you can add, remove, and edit available content. You simply have to create an account to join this group.
Twitter is a relatively new network. Its official launching can be traced back no more than two years ago – July 15, 2006, to be exact. Despite this, it has gathered more than 3 million accounts in just over two years of operation. This shows how increasingly popular Twitter has become.
So, what’s so great about Twitter? Everything!

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It’s not just for kids and geeks – Twitter is good for Business too!

November 16, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

5 types of business that should be using Twitter

They’re all talking about it – the online phenomenon for 2009. Forget Google, forget Facebook and don’t even mention Yell.com – Twitter is where it’s at this year!

Founded in 2006 as a way to let fellow members know “what you are doing”, Twitter has expanded way beyond its founders wildest dreams.

2009 is the year Twitter has become more “mainstream”. This has been helped by celebrities such as Stephen Fry, Ashton Kutcher and Jonathan Ross espousing its virtues but also by the number of businesses out there realising the marketing and promotional capabilities of Twitter.

However it’s usually when I talk to potential clients about using Twitter as part of their social media marketing, I hear:

“It’s just for kids and geeks”

“Only IT and Marketing bods make money from it”

and other such comments.

With this in mind, here are a random 5 industries, each with 5 ways they could use Twitter to promote their business:

1) HOTELS

Twitter is fast paced, instant communication, ideal for the hotel & hospitality industry.

Hotels could:

- Communicate last minute offers – Use Twitpic to show pictures of rooms – Post customer testimonials – Request feedback from guests

DM Bonus – If your guests have Twitter, why not DM them a special Twitter code if they eat dinner in the hotel?

2) PHOTOGRAPHERS

While Twitter is seen mainly as a textual medium, it can be visual too.

Photographers, why not:

- Use Twitpic to post a “picture of the day” – Tweet about the photo shoot you’re doing today, so people get a feel for your scope – Post links to your blog/website – Use TwTQpon to offer free studio time (specify purchase of X photos) – Ask satisfied customers to retweet the link to their pic(s) in your portfolio

DM Bonus – If your customers are on Twitter, DM them the link to thier pictures on your password protected server, or private group on Flickr/Facebook etc.

3)ASTROLOGIST

It’s not always easy to get people to sign up to a mailing list on a website if you’re in a very niche industry, but it’s a lot easier to get followers on Twitter.

- Use Hootsuite to run 12 daily horoscope accounts – one for each star sign – Post details of astrologically important days/dates/events – Offer a free reading for every 50th follower – ask people to retweet – Post testimonials from satisfied clients – Post celebrity horoscopes on a weekly basis

DM Bonus – Offer free 140 character descriptions of each star sign – have them ready to cut and paste. Offer them by DM only. (People have to follow you to get DM’s)

4) HOLIDAY RESORT/GUESTHOUSE

If SEO is too competitive and too costly, try Twitter – the only cost is your time, and even that can be minimal!

- Use 12 second TV to post short video testimonials filmed on an iPhone or similar – Use Twitpic to post pictures of your resort – Post about local traditions/holidays/etc – Tweet last minute special offers/prices – Use TwtQpon to offer money off local/on site restaurants/bars

DM Bonus – Guests on Twitter? DM them to let them know they can check in.

5) SPEAKERS

It might be written communication, but I know a few speakers doing very well from Twitter, so if you’re a speaker, why not:

- Post links to audio files of you speaking – Autofeed your calender/blog into your Twitter account so people know where you’re speaking – Post a “tip of the day” each day, related to your speciality – Use 12 second TV to post short clips of you speaking then link to the longer version on youtube/your website – Use Twitter search to find people talking about your speciality/niche – ask them if they can introduce you to people wanting speakers

DM Bonus – Offer a free ebook / whitepaper / mention on your website by DM only. The only way to get it is to follow you so you can DM them.

So there you have it – 5 types of business that should be using Twitter, and 5 things they can use it for.

Nikki Pilkington is author of TweetMentor from NikkiPilkington.com, a 100 day hand holding support system to help you through the Twitter maze.

Internet marketing expert Nikki Pilkington is owner of NikkiPilkington.com, an internet marketing and search engine optimisation company based in the UK, offering higher google listings, SEO, website traffic generation, Adwords management, email marketing and more.

www.nikkipilkington.com

Tr.im Dies, Do You Know Where Your Links Are?

November 15, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

As if to put a little exclamation point on Saturday’s post, “Twitter’s DOS Attack (And Why Social Media Sucks)” the URL shortening service Tr.im announced Sunday that they’re closing their doors.

We marketers use different methods to shorten URL’s, and for different reasons.

While on Twitter, we may shorten a long URL just so it doesn’t take up the 140 character limit Twitter imposes.

But we also use URL shorteners sometimes to mask affiliate links.  http://yourclickbankid.clickbakproduct.hop.clickbank.net is unattractive, long and kinda weird for your site visitors to click on.  Instead, we use one URL shortening method or another to make those long, ugly affiliate links into something a bit more palatable.

And as such, we’re dependent on whatever method we use to shorten those long URL’s to remain *working* – if we choose a method of URL shortening that goes the way of Tr.im, our links may no longer work!

The lifetime of a single Tweet is minutes, perhaps a few days – but for the most part, a tweet and any link associated with it doesn’t necessarily need to “live” forever.  Shortened some tweeted links with a now-defunct URL shortening service 14 months ago?  Probably not going to cut into your bottom line.

But an old friend of mine used to always say, “Safety first!” And as such, I use Bit.ly to shorten any URL’s I tweet.  Why? Bit.ly is Twitter’s default URL shortening service.  While nothing is ever 100%, I’ll assume due to their association with Twitter that Bit.ly will be around for a while and as such, my tweeted links will live on, should they need to.

Finally, the Twitter client Seesmic will allow you to integrate you Bit.ly account so you can shorten URL’s to your Bit.ly account from within Seesmic.)

So on the Twitter front, we’re ok.  But what if you’re using a URL shortening service to mask affiliate links elsewhere (your money site, blog, or external sites, like Squidoo)?

You’ve got to change those links to be links that you have control of!

You absolutely *must* use a method of shortening/redirection that is dependent on your own domain.  That way you have control of the links and you know they’ll always work.

If you’re using a Wordpress setup, you can use the plugin Redirection to do just that – Crowd Mountain members know alot of the little tips and tricks for using this plugin.  But the basics premise is that it’ll take http://yourclickbankid.clickbakproduct.hop.clickbank.net and change it to http://www.yoursite.com/product/ – and it’ll give you stats on the number of clicks the link has received so you can track reader’s interest and conversions.

What’s more, if you find out that the product you’re directing visitors to just isn’t converting, you can change where your redirection link goes to to test another product, without having to edit the links you’ve placed on your site or over the ‘net.

The point I was making in “Twitter’s DOS Attack (And Why Social Media Sucks)” and the point I’m making here is that you must be in control of your business, particularly the elements of your business that bring you leads, subscribers, sales and ultimately, your income.

Depending on any one (free) service to host your content or lead visitors to the “Buy Now” page will ultimately award you with a headache, at best!

Another free resource you might enjoy is the Social Media Myth, where Michelle MacPhearson explains the reason most marketers aren’t having success with their social media marketing and devises a simple plan for you to follow. Unfortunately, we try to do too much with too little, the Social Media Myth is the answer.

Making Money Using Twitter – Tweet Your Way To The Top “>

November 15, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment 

Twitter is a global phenomenon with hundreds of thousands of people joining it every month, that is hundreds of thousands of eyeballs that you have the chance to get to your blogs or websites!

As with anything online then you need to make sure you are not spamming the site, the internet certainly does not need any more spammers! But I’m going to teach you in this guide how to go about it the right way and be seen as a trusted advisor rather than a ruthless salesman.

It will require some work, this is not some spammy automatic traffic system that you can turn on and forget about – then again neither is it low quality spammy traffic (if you do it right). Using these techniques you can get high quality, qualified traffic eagerly heading over to almost any link that you send.

Forget open rates on email messages, in Twitter every message is already ‘opened’ for your audience to see!

Let’s get straight into this guide by talking about exactly what Twitter is…

To your profits!

What is Twitter?

Unless you have been living under a digital rock for the past year or so then you can’t help but notice the meteoric rise of Twitter into the public limelight, it is being talked about everywhere now!

Almost every blog has applications active for it, the news adores it, people are addicted to it, and as always, new ways to market with it are born.

For instance Namecheap, a popular domain registrar, did a Christmas competition where they would ask a question every hour on Twitter, and the first couple of people who gave the correct answer as a reply in Twitter would get a free domain registration. I know this bagged them a lot of followers, which is a captive audience they can now market to again and again!

So what is Twitter?

Well the owners say:

“Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?”

But Wikipedia gives us a clearer idea with its definition:

“Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.”

So it is a micro-blog where you make micro-blog posts called tweets. Its popularity stupefies most people, you either love it or you hate it, and most of the world still cannot understand why anybody would want to know that you are ‘having breakfast’ or any of the incredibly mundane things that people post.

Yet it does have a silver lining, ’simplicity’ is a word I see the guys behind Twitter use a lot, and that is definitely part of the appeal, no groups, no clicking around constantly to find things, nobody changing the text to huge red letters as they type…

Just a window when you go in where all the messages pop up so you can see what you want to read, and the length of them (140 characters) makes people get to the point quickly!

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