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GROW TWITTER YOUR BUSINESS ON Keep it SHORT: 21% higher interactions for tweets kept under 100 characters Hash tags are good! Tweets with # are 2xs more likely to be retweeted You can't go wrong with visuals: 36% of links shared on twitter are images. 40% of people respond better to visual information than plain text. Engage your customers NOT your product: 67% of twitter users are more likely to buy a product from a brand they follow Times to tweet: Best times: 1P.m- 4P.M. Worst times: 8P.M to 8aM [Source] http://www.surfsmm.com/grow-your-business-on-twitter/ TWITTER MARKETING TIPS Do use clever forms of advertising Be personal and genuine with your tweets. Do include a link Send sales links as a general part of your conversation Do not spam Do not send personal messages to potential clients Listen to your followers Be useful and helpful- not every tweet as to be about your business, talk about the local community. Do not send a direct link of your product- share your websites blog or general information. [Source] http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-use-twitter-for-marketing в 0. It took 3 years, 2 months, and 1 day to get a billionth tweet, now it only takes 1 week. 10 tweets per second mention Starbucks Lady Gaga is the most followed Twitter, with almost 33 million followers 60% of Twitter Users are Female 16% of U.S. citizens are on twitter Over the span of 16 days, the London Olympics generated 150 Million Tweets [Source] http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/50-twitter-fun-facts_b33589 [Source] http://www.socialnomics.net/2013/01/23/the-history-of-twitter/ Why the name? It was in- spired by the website Flickr. The definition of the term twitter is "a short burst of inconsequential information." A perfect name, @Jacksaid, "Because that's ex- actly what it is." BRIEF HISTORY OF TWITTER Jack Dorsey (@Jack), Evan Williams (@Ev), and Biz Stone (@Biz) are the founders of Twitter. They were looking for a way to send text from their cell phone, and reinvent a dying 140 Characters? Because 160 characters was the SMS carrier limit and the users wanted to leave room for a username company. On March 21 st 2006 @Jack sent the first tweet "just setting up my twttr". Twitter Today: It is now worth of 11 billion dollars and as over 200 million active users. iOuariuc a