User generated content is gaining attention and focus of online marketing campaigns. Due to its huge potential for attracting traffic, improving search engine rankings, and maximizing exposure, social media marketing has now become the latest focal point for online marketing. Social media is the latest evolution in the online industry in terms of online interaction and viral marketing. Twitter is one of the latest arrivals on the web, which is a service, used for social networking and micro blogging.

Twitter allows you a maximum of 140 characters to answer its questions. You can use a laptop, personal computer, PDA, or even your mobile phone to respond to Twitter. Your response is in the form of a small message or a ‘tweet’ or a micro blog which helps you keep connected to your friends. The ‘tweet’ is posted to your page. Just as other blog sites, Twitter also allows you to receive updated posts in real time and comment to other posts. You can also use Twitter’s affiliated service ‘Twitpic’ and plug-ins to post images in addition to text and HTML links. Apparently, Twitter appears to be a small blog and just like all new arrivals, Twitter is also facing the criticism of all who are yet to understand it properly.

The reasons below explain why Twitter should be an essential companion of your online marketing campaign.

Value Addition
Value addition is Twitter’s biggest strength. While creating a positive exposure on the web it also helps in active promotion of your products and services. The short ‘tweets’ are the most effective ways to inform about your latest discount offers or announcements directly to the customers. However, avoid overdoing promotional activities so that the ‘tweets’ are not misinterpreted as ads.

Personal Touch
The web helps you in interacting to people scattered in various geographic locations and time. Usually, bigger brands tend to appear impersonal and lose than human touch. Twitter allows to add a great value though human touch. This human touch can be extended through your small messages or ‘tweets’. A human voice or a human representative can communicate to the clients through ‘tweets’ and change the entire perspective of the client.

Trust and Transparency
Twitter is very effective in engaging potential customers in important discussions. The customer’s perspective of a brand is the key to its success and Twitter allows complete transparency while building a trustworthy relationship with the client. This trust and transparency will result in positive outcomes for your marketing campaign.

All these features ensure that Twitter is now at the heart of social media marketing and is definitely here to stay.

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