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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Twitter - Getting Your Business StartedInternet Marketing presented by Sonix Social Media

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History Of Twitter

✤ Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that uses 140 characters to create a message.

✤ Created in March 2006 and launched in July of that same year.

✤ As of this year there are 500 million active users generating 340 million tweets daily.

✤ Twitter is one of the top 10 most visited websites on the internet.

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Demographics Of Twitter

✤ According to comScore 11% of Twitter users are ages 12-17

✤ According to Sysomos (June 2009) women made up a slightly larger portion of Twitter users than men.

✤ As of Feb 2012 about 15% of online adults use Twitter.

✤ 8% of those adults use Twitter daily.

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Business Twitter Examples

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Home Depot Does It RightTip

Sales Pitch

Intro Of Other Social Media

Promotion

Intro Of Other Social Media

Promotion

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Home Depot Does It Right (cont’d)

Promote Other Users

Promote With Pictures

Information

Sales Pitch

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Coal Vines Does It Wrong

All Self Promotion

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Brooks Running - Not Ideal

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FitFluential - Too Much Is Not A Good Thing

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