If your business market through Twitter?

When people think of social media, your first thoughts are Facebook and Twitter. Facebook is an ideal place for the market in the UK because nearly 30 million people on the site. While many users are under 25, 28.5% of the UK audience are actually between 35 and 54. Vendors announce that its customers are and Facebook is definitely home to millions of potential buyers. But why Twitter is now mentioned in the same category as Facebook? Twitter really is the other major market in the social web?

Twitters background

Twitter was created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey as a way to communicate with a group of friends through SMS. While the first network is promoted as a way to inform friends of their daily life became in a short time. The website is now used by 106 million people worldwide, with more than 10.9% of the online population in the UK on the site. Twitter continues to grow in popularity accounting for the UK 1 in 184 visits to the UK Internet May 21, 2011. People have changed the way they use the network, information exchange and conversations you have with others. According to a recent survey of more people learned of the death of Osama Bin Laden through Twitter than through television or Facebook. This shows that Twitter is a great way to spread the information if you are informing people of news or product.

What does this mean for companies?

As mentioned above, the media has become a great way for companies to get sales and increase website traffic. Currently 51% of active users of Twitter Follow a company or product through Twitter. Dell said it sold $ 6.5 billion in products through their Twitter accounts and pizza chain "Pizza naked" took in 15% of your business promotion twitter.

Twitter has also become a great place for B2B online sales, with 38% of companies surveyed said that has gained customers through Twitter. The potential for B2B sales sites has become more popular than Facebook for many companies.

What next?

Last week, Apple announced that adds Twitter integration deep into the iPhone, so the site is the social network of choice. Having to do only business owners should consider Twitter as a way to market your product or service. The iPhone currently has 9% of the smartphone market in the UK and the number of users with the phone is likely to increase further in coming months.

If your company is considering marketing through Twitter, Facebook and many other social networks visit our Social Media Marketing for more information.