The Explosion of Twitter!

Twitter has swept the nation! I turn on the Ellen DeGeneres Show and she is talking about who she tweeted or what she tweeted about, I’m still not 100 percent positive on the correct usage of the word ‘tweet’ in accordance with Twitter.

On a website called Social Earth they say Twitter has increased usage 55 percent in one month, read the full article here. That is amazing! I have never seen any advertisements- online, billboards, radio, or television- about Twitter and yet everyone knows about it and everyone is talking about it. That is Public Relations at its finest.

I Googled ‘how did Twitter become so popular’ and it seems all it took was a few people to use it, tell their friends and Twitter exploded. President Obama uses Twitter as does CNN and numerous celebrities. In this case word of mouth seemed to be more effective than any gigantic marketing campaign Twitter could have launched.

While I am still new to the Twitter scene (I started an account but haven’t played around with it yet) I am still slightly confused about why it is so amazing. It is basically just status updates on Facebook isn’t it? Maybe the beauty of it is how simple it is.

I found a blog asking the same question, why do people use Twitter? Click here to see the results he came up with, some had to do with getting information quickly, before it hits mainstream media. Some say it’s just to network. Maybe I’ll pose the question on my own Twitter and see what kind of response I get. I’ll let you know!