Who Uses Twitter?

Unless you've been living under a rock recently, you'vereasons. You need to figure out why you want to be
probably heard of this thing called Twitter. People allon Twitter for yourself. Just know that Twitter has
over the news are talking about it. Perhaps the peoplebeen described as a global, 24 hour a day cocktail
at your office or school have been talking about it asparty.
well. Some people say that teenagers and college kidsOf course, there are a lot of marketers on Twitter. A
use it, teenagers say old people use it, but you're stilllot of them are under the impression, that Twitter is a
left with the question: "Who uses Twitter?"marketing tool. I do not believe that Twitter is any more
I guess I should mention, that Twitter is a micro-bloggingof a marketing tool than your telephone is. I believe that
service, and by micro-blogging it means that you canTwitter is a social tool that facilitates marketing, but
only type 140 characters at a time. I should also brieflysaying that Twitter is a marketing tool is simplistic at
mention, that the way that Twitter works is that youbest.
put in your micro-blogs also called "posts," or tweets"When you approach Twitter, go back to the analogy a
and generally other people can follow your tweets,worldwide cocktail party, this is the approach that I feel
and you can follow other people's tweets.you should take. Be friendly, be interesting, be yourself,
The point of all this following is that you get to seeand certainly don't only spam.
what goes on in other people's lives between theEverybody knows a person that always talks about
phone calls and your other interactions with them.their business and always talks about what they do. If
Assuming you have other interactions with them.that's all that they ever talk about, well, how soon until
Having said that, who uses Twitter?you stop talking to them? Unless this person does
The short answer would be everybody uses Twitter.something incredibly interesting usually the
The real answer is that everybody should be usedconversations get boring quickly.
Twitter.So the answer to the question "who uses Twitter?"
Twitter is a great way to interact with people all overThe answer is that pretty much all kinds of people use
the world, both like-minded people, and not like-mindedTwitter. From the young to the old, from the interesting
people. You can use Twitter to talk to newscasters,to the boring, from the glamorous to the not so
politicians, celebrity sports figures, movie stars, singers,glamorous. Come join the party and see for yourself
and of course regular people like you and I.who's on Twitter.
All of these people are on Twitter, for their own