One hundred and forty characters doesn’t give you much space but it sure as heck gives tons of flexibility. I’ve been a member of the Twitterverse for nearly 2 months now, actually longer so let me active member for 2 months. In that time I’ve learned that twitter is
1) The fastest news service on the planet
2) Incredible for personal branding.
3) An awesome research tool. – You can find the best most current and relevant information on virtually any topic.
4) Goofy – Twitter’s twitters are flat out funny.
5) Incredible market research in your local area or for that matter overall market research.
6) Great for company branding.
7) Might take over the world.
Drives traffic to your site like no other tool including all other social media forums.
9) Creates viral buzz about a product
10) And now flat out buy tweets from twitters – provided by services such as tweetroi and Izea.

As I was writing this article I just found a new twitter – You can now follow dead president John Quincy Adams brought to my attention by @stonepayton.

As a tool twitter is too public to provide corporations the ability to communicate internally. Even though you can set up private networks in twitter I’m not familiar enough with the security and I certainly wouldn’t recommend to my company that they use it for anything that we want to protect.

That said if a twitter like tool is set up internal to a company intranet, it can really be useful. Companies that want to share information about what employees are working on and even help teams become more cohesive will find incredible value in this tool that simply lets you write short sentences about “What are you doing now?” There are companies contemplating using twitter like tools to replace status reporting and others who will use it to find internal resources with answer to questions that come up in every day business.

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