How could the 140 characters long Twitter messages take the world by storm and make everyone crazy about it in a very short period of time? How long is a Twitter message or tweet? Just as long as the first sentence in this paragraph!
The prominent Twitter users include TV host Jonathan Ross, actor Stephen Fry, comedian Russell Brand and Chef Jamie Oliver who has recently signed up. President Barack Obama has effectively used Twitter throughout his presidential election campaign.
The fact that the growth of Twitter over the past year is an astounding 974% says a lot about the Twitter explosion around the world. Among governments and countries, Israel Government is credited with using Twitter for the first time officially. In the recent Iranian elections Twitter played an important role of communication and the Iranian protestors who questioned the fairness of elections used Twitter so effectively that the Iranian authorities tried to block Twitter in Iran.
Thousands of stranded people could use Twitter effectively to contact others for help. Google uses Twitter to announce updates of Google policies and programs. Student communities use Twitter to exchange academic and other messages. Business houses use Twitter to communicate with their customers and others. Websites use Twitter to announce updates and business offers along with site URLs. A whole lot of business and marketing campaigns are currently running using Twitter as an effective medium. Thousands of new websites and businesses have come up to monetize Twitter and make money online. Similarly, there are thousands of programmers and software developers in the business of making applications to make Twitter work for special interest groups and businesses. In fact there is no field of work or life that is not influenced by Twitter!
So, as I said what makes Twitter so special? Listen to the video above and start tweeting if you are not a Twitterer already!
Do you have any Twitter experience that you would like to share with our readers? Please use the comment box and let us know. You can even publish your Twitter experiences in this blog!
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