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Twitter - Top 10 Reasons Why It’s Hot

author Posted by: admin on date Aug 31st, 2008 | filed Filed under: Internet, Marketing

Twitter is hot. No doubt about it. When CNN anchors give their Twitter address so you can follow them online, it has reached the high-level mainstream. Here are 10 top reasons why Twitter is hot:

  1. It’s free. Anyone can enjoy it at no cost.
  2. It’s easy. Anyone can sign up for their own account at twitter.com and be posting tweets in minutes.
  3. It’s fun. You can follow other people - friends and strangers, nadas and gurus, to see what they’re saying and if you don’t like what someone is posting, with a click, you don’t follow them any more.
  4. It’s new. Early adopters and social media lovers get a kick out of twitter because it’s new. Lots of people don’t even know what Twitter is all about and think it sounds silly.
  5. It sounds silly. Yep somehow this puts it in the same category as Google and Yahoo. Names which start out sound silly seem to capture the public imagination and catch on faster. In time they become respected and admired if they’re good at what they do.
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