A Little Birdie Told Me

“What’s up?” That’s why most people use twitter. It is a remarkably effective way to stay connected in short bursts, and networks can extend all over the world.

In the same way that people share bits of their lives, they will also complain about what goes wrong- and, where before the Internet their thoughts would have touched a small group of people, now online influence extends to the thousands.

This video had over 2 million views when I first saw it at a few days old. As of today’s date there were over 4,800,000 views. In fact, when I flew United on the way back from San Francisco, the flight attendant announced at the onset, “We will only be a few more moments, folks, as we gently stow luggage aboard the plane for the flight. We do NOT break guitars at United.”

Twitter is an ideal way to step in and solve problems before they get big.

Your responses have to be under 140 characters. If you don’t understand the acronyms, www.urbandictionary.com is a huge resource for all modern permutations, although keep your blinders on- it tends to be NSFW in parts.

You sign up at twitter.com. For company use, you probably want to find a name that can be used across all platforms, so if you decide to build a facebook page or expand your presence, you can consistently use a name. To search to see if the name that you like is actually being used anywhere else, try http://knowem.com/. I run my name through every now and then for the fun of it to make sure that someone else isn’t using it on other sites that I don’t frequent.

Sign-up is simple:

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