62 Ways to Use Twitter for Business. Most of you know that Twitter can be used for much more than just announcing what you ate for breakfast.
Many of you already know Twitter’s value in business, but you can still take it further and use it to land gigs, market your business, grow your network and gain free publicity — all in 140 characters or less. It’s true that Twitter is what you make of it. Some people publicize their daily activities, some make it about link love, some share quotes all day long. Smart people using Twitter for business mix it up. Gustav creates an online social media storm. Gustav creates an online social media storm September 1st, 2008 by Lloyd Gofton I have been following the Gustav hurricane updates today on Twitter and am amazed by the amount of people talking about it over social networks and with social online tools.
Twitter has also been embraced as a ‘perfect storm’ for Twitter – A CNN reporter named Rick Sanchez has embraced Twitter with a vengance, calling on Twitter users to feed him information from the hurricane zone. Twitter says Gustav is the most trended word of the day followed by Hurricane Gustav and #gustav – no surprise really! Other sources of information include a blog called Gustav Bloggers – a group of concerned techies from the Internet sector who are based in New Orleans and survived Katrina from a New Orleans skyrise with NO DOWNTIME.