2. Overview Social Networking Micro-Blog Post and Read Updates from people Evolution of Mobile Messaging Quickly share information
3. Service, Audience, and User Problems Solved Service Allows for quick and informative communication Connects People Updates Audience Everyone User Problems Solved Making better decisions – voicing opinions Connect and Network
4. Features Features Send and Read updates from almost everyone Allows for a larger audience than texting Tweets can be received by email, phone, or other websites Restrict delivery to certain people Can use other applications such as Tweetie, Twitterrific, and Feedalizr to send Twitter messages Search for users, import friends, or invite friends Can type up to 140 characters per tweet
5. Benefits Free Connect businesses and customers Easy networking Easily Accesible Phone, Other networking sites such as Facebook
6. Applications More than 50,000 Applications Available Supports Images Text Gmail Networking sites Facebook, MySpace
7. Example Tweets: @Red Cross - You can vaccinate a village. http://bit.ly/c6BrXz Join @redcross, @wnba @Candace_Parker and others: http://bit.ly/cx8QW910:23 AM Sep 16th Mobile Phone Manufactures Blackberry, Palm, Apple Charities Improving the World’s Water Supply Charity Water, Water.org Promote World AIDS Day Room to Read Promote literacy How Twitter Can Be Used by Groups
