The Whale Cottage Portfolio has embraced new technology and social media, by posting tweets on Twitter, mainly to publicise new blog posts on its WhaleTales blog.
Twitter is one of the fastest growing social media networks, and allows its users to communicate in a maximum of 140 characters. More than 5 million persons Twitter around the world. The communication is driven by the answer to the question: What are you doing now?” Most Twitterers do not reply to the question, rather sending their information proactively about any topic they wish. The Tweets can also be used to gain information from other Twitterers, by posing questions.
Twitter has developed its own terminology, and the following are some new additions to the dictionary, according to David White, a Twitter consultant: “monitter” = monitoring what people are saying linked to specific keywords; “Tweetbeeps” are tweets that mentions one’s name or brand, with regular updates; “Twiveaway” = competition designed to build more followers; and “Twtqpon” = a coupon offered to followers. See www.howtotweet.co.uk for guidelines on how to tweet on Twitter.
Whale Cottage can be found on Twitter at http://twitter.com/whalecottage, and invites readers of the WhaleTales blog to follow whalecottage.
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