TWITTERIFIC!

I can’t honestly say that I am a fan of twitter. I have given it multiple chances and it still fails to impress me. I have three points to make here; one that the internet has made stalking a piece of delicious cake, two Twitter and I are not compatible, three I can see the potential in marketing products there. It could be that I am inherently lazy and prefer to read what is happening instead of contributing to the site, obviously I am not a produser.  

 I think it was Tracy Morgan (the actor from 30 Rock) who said “‎Facebook asks me what I’m thinking, Twitter asks me what I’m doing, Foursquare asks me where I am. The internet has turned into a crazy girlfriend”.  The internet really has become just a tool to stalk people, and what’s more people don’t care.  The most popular thing on twitter is to “follow” your favourite celebrity or friends, announcing to the world where you are and what you are doing. May I ask one question, what is the point? Good for you you have a social life, so does the majority of everyone else.

I know social media is a great way to organise yourselves, in fact it played an integral role in the Egyptian crisis. If people where to attempt to get in touch with me via twitter they would have no chance.  I have a twitter account but that place is a GHOST TOWN. No one I know uses it regularly enough for me to pay attention to the site. And if they did it would be synced up with Facebook so any potential statements could be just as easily viewed there, what I do like about twitter though is the cute little fail whale.... HOW CUTE IS IT!  However, despite my laziness on twitter it continues to be the first to make announcements, and is doing very well at it.

The main reason I have twitter is to follow major labels so I know when there are sales or any other promotion. Businesses have realised the potential of free promotion on twitter, as has twitter. With the addition of #hashtags it has made it easier to follow a particular trend. If ‘Bloggerati, Twitterati: How Blogs and Twitter are Transforming Popular Culture’ by Mary Cross hadn’t refused to load on me I would insert the specific stats relating to marketing on twitter. During the Melbourne food and Wine festival, a gourmet coffee cart would pop out throughout Melbourne and the only way of knowing it was there was if you were following it on a social networking site. I sort of wanted to go to it, purely because of the unique way it was marketed. 

Twitter has a huge capabilities from organising large protests to clumping like minded individuals through the use of# hashtags to marketing. Marketing your product on twitter  is a great way to get your product out in the world or advertise your sales, you instantly reach millions of people. Twitter has played its part in mobilizing entire countries to rally against governments. However, one must be careful of information they put on the internet, unless of course they enjoy the attention of being stalked whatever floats your boat I am not here to judge. 

While looking for the fail whale picture I found this