Twitter hasn't cracked, it just appears that way. A good thing or a bad? Well, really can’t say right now.
Let’s look at its brighter side; it will give an opportunity to be more creative with the tweets. It will now allow the text-based emoticons.
Hashtag has gained a selfhood after its overhead usage by Twitter. Rumors say another social giant, Facebook, will soon be employing this significant symbol in its platform. To know the ropes, “Hashtag”, is a spaceless character used along with the keyphrase i.e. “#keyword” which helps to categorize the tweet.
Google in this “spring cleaning efforts” have Google Readers in its checklist along with some other products. The platform allows users to discover and keep a track on their dear websites. Better say it’s a popular content and RSS application, launched by Google engineer Chris Wetherell in October 7, 2005 with a bunch of team members. But the gradual decline in the number of its users over years leads to its retirement on July 1st 2013.
Facebook recently procure a US based startup “Storylane”. The company performed a good job at providing a platform to its users to update and share made-up-stories.
Social Media has become a serious business today, both for big names and startups. But culling up the right platform at right time with right audience can leave your head spinning. What’s hot today might sink in the coming weeks. So, it is important to have a well-thought-out approach before establishing your imprints in social space.
Before anything, have a look at this:
One of the social media study reveals that “Over 80% of all Americans use a social network and 56% of customers recommends a brand after becoming a fan.”
Sites likes Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest are high up in the sky and crowd is madly following this trend. What drives me up the wall is people chasing rats race to enhance their “Fans”, “Likes” and “Tweets”. But trust me; all these actions won’t magically generate business. In fact, once you dive more into social arena you’ll find some awesome stuff waiting for you.
Social platform is surely not the end-all and be-all for your enterprise or startup. But you can’t deny that more people than ever are active on this platform and there is plenty of stuff going on within it. So don’t you think being a part of the alley would be a smart business decision?
No, Social Media is not a fad and it is here to say. I am sure most of you have realized how businesses and startups are leveraging various social media tools to promote, engage customers, build relationships, to generate leads, for customer service, PR issues and so on.
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