In this day and age of social media, we have been promoting our training courses, blog updates and forthcoming events to great effect via Twitter.
So what is Twitter all about? Everyone uses Twitter differently, and there is no general guidelines. But it does allow you to connect
with people that you’re not able to do on other social networking
sites. Facebook,for example, tends to be limited to your own
circle of friends. Twitter allows you to get your message to a wider circle of people.
Twitter also allows you to get a message out world wide instantly, but as you will have seen in the Australian news tonight, you have to be careful what you say as once you push the send button the world can see what you have written - for better or worse!
As you see comments from people that interest you, it's then possible to 'follow' them. You soon find that people are starting to follow you as well, and this is where' retweeting' comes in. If a someone who is following you had 250 followers, and they 'retweet' your tweet, then that message is sent out to a further 250 people that you couldn't originally access.
Our Twitter account @Glasscrops has 84 followers, but when we did the sums, and looked at how many followers our followers have, this in turn this equates to a staggering 85,000 people that can learn about our activities if the messages are retweeted.
Of course you can use Twitter as many people do in terms of just relaying your social life activities and advertising what you had for dinner. But as a business tool, Twitter offers some great potential.
So if you have never tried Twitter, have a go, and make sure you follow us at @Glasscrops.
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