Twitter Expanding its Business

TWITTER started as a mere social network among friends as a place to hang out with and have a break – just like Kitkat. With the immense popularity of Twitter, people have perceived it as a potential business tool which can surely multiply return of investment a hundredfold.

So how does Twitter works as a business tool? Here’s how: Twitter has inked an official agreement with a business-inclined social networking too, LinkedIn. This is the first step. However, Twitter executives have deemed that it is more profitable if the company itself will have its separate business feature. Thus, monetizing a blog post was formed. It is launched just real recently and it is actually still on its beta stage. For Internet suave folks, you may want to use the Twitter business tool in beta as a Contributor.

One such company which is using Twitter as an online advertising tool is Honeywell. Honeywell is a scholarship firm and they advertise their product using Twitter. Other companies which use Twitter as an online business tool are auto parts distributors. These are the ones which are located at the local level.

Word has it that various private companies are slowly catching up with the Contributor feature of Twitter. These companies are the ones which are usually on the verge of collapse with the current economic crisis but thanks to Twitter, they have slowly risen from a potential doom to be even more profitable than they were before the crisis hit America.

Read more »

Facebook developed its own URL shortener

We all know that one of the most famous social networks nowadays is facebook. Yes, it seems almost everybody has been crazy about facebook. Most of the facebook users are into it because of the many interesting applications it features. Facebook is a great social network site for sharing links of your favorite video in youtube, links of the article you have recently read, pictures of you or with your friends and more. In fact, we have notice recently, that facebook was also been used for business professionals in endorsing their products and services. Aside from communication there are lots of things you can do in facebook. Through facebook, recent news could also be delivered worldwide that is why facebook could also be considered as one of the most important social networking sites among the other social network sites.

As we notice if we share links to facebook whether it is a video link, article or pictures—sometimes the URL you tried to share would not fit on the box where you should have to put the URL you want to share. It looks awkward and sometime it would not work. Thanks to the recent news, facebook has its own URL shortener. It has been said that facebook cut short log URLs through the FB.me this is for the mobile version. Aside from that you can also short URL by substituting facebook.com with the FB.me/username that makes it simpler compared before. This is to save the effort of typing long words and make it into short. This is another application that you can use in facebook, this for the service of microblogging.

Read more »