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50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business | chrisbrogan.com. We really can’t deny the fact that businesses are testing out Twitter as part of their steps into the social media landscape. You can say it’s a stupid application, that no business gets done there, but there are too many of us (including me) that can disagree and point out business value. I’m not going to address the naysayers much with this. Instead, I’m going to offer 50 thoughts for people looking to use Twitter for business. And by “business,” I mean anything from a solo act to a huge enterprise customer. Your mileage may vary, and that’s okay. Further, you might have some really great ideas to add. That’s why we have lively conversations here at [chrisbrogan.com] in the comments section. Oh, and please feel free to reblog this wherever. 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business First Steps Build an account and immediate start using Twitter Search to listen for your name, your competitor’s names, words that relate to your space.

Ideas About WHAT to Tweet Some Sanity For You. Twitter To Start Charging Companies For Having An Account? Gartner Highlights Four Ways in Which Enterprises Are Using Twit. STAMFORD, Conn., March 26, 2009 View All Press Releases By 2011, Enterprise Microblogging Will Be a Standard Feature on 80 Percent of Social Software Platforms As businesses struggle to consider the uses of microblogging platforms such as Twitter in the workplace, Gartner, Inc. has highlighted the four ways in which organizations are using Twitter. "Despite the fact that Twitter is primarily aimed at individual users in the consumer market, many of those individuals work for companies and 'tweet' about business issues, leading businesses to explore how they could best use it," said Jeffrey Mann, research vice president at Gartner.

"In general, Twitter usage by employees should be covered by existing Web participation guidelines," Mr. Twitter allows users to post short, 140 character updates, on what they are doing right now. Gartner analysts predict that by 2011, enterprise microblogging will be a standard feature of 80 percent of social software platforms on the market. Contacts. NEW: Post to WordPress from Tweetie and Other Twitter Apps. The popularity of services like Twitter, Tumblr and Posterous is changing the way the world thinks about blogging. As one of the world's most popular blogging platforms, WordPress has made the realization that the distinction between short-form and longer-form blog posts is disappearing. Today the company is announcing that WordPress.com users will be able to read and create blog posts from within Twitter apps like Tweetie 2. Now any Twitter app that allows you to input a custom API URL can be transformed into a WordPress app, too.

Configuring WordPress functionality in applications that allow custom API URLs is as simple as adding a new account, entering your WordPress login credentials and inputing into the API Root field. So for Tweetie 2, click to add an account, enter your username and password for WordPress, hit the gears button and enter the URL above and click save. Welcome to HootSuite - The Professional Twitter Client.