this is not even close to TNA copying WWE. if that was the case I guess every different sport is copying WWE too? throw in celebrity shows as well. I've seen many TV shows talking about tweeting. EVERY TIME there is a major event like sports or awards show it ends up trending on twitter at that time because everyone is tweeting about it. even big news events end up trending. that has been the case for years now, nothing new. and TNA has been doing this for years as well. I've only watched TNA since 2010. I remember when Hogan first signed with TNA it was trending on twitter. when I would watch TNA then they would mention Dixie's twitter every week. I don't remember exactly when it was, but the first time Matt Hardy was seen in TNA, he didn't trend.. but it was because of him that Tyler Reks ending up trending because when Matt showed up in TNA he had dreads and looked like Reks.
twitter is a social network, like facebook but better. I don't have a facebook so I don't really know how it works. I don't think facebook has trends.
personally I think twitter is awesome. it's not just about friends or people you know. you can follow celebrities or news or anything.
I play a lot of fantasy baseball during baseball season and follow many different twitters about fantasy baseball. in the past whenever there was news about baseball it would end up first on some website, but that would take time after it happens because it would usually be in a written up article. now the news can come out on twitter right after it happened because you can tweet with only a few words. if a player is injured, there will be a tweet about it right after it happens.
there is probably a twitter for anything and everything you can think of. there are many daily joke twitters for example. whatever you are interested in, search and you will find a twitter for it.
I'm able to speak with a bit of expertise on this particular issue. Teaching people how to use the internet to advertise their business, and then running the advertising for them when they either don't have the capacity or can't run it themselves has been how I've been feeding myself for the past three years.
Lots of people 'use' Twitter. This is where the illusion of its value comes from. Twitter, however, comes down to just a place for people to talk. That's a thing of value in and of itself, but people attach far more weight to it than it deserves. Don't get me wrong- having a real-time way of measuring what a broad sample of a somewhat specific audience is talking about is a very useful tool. (Twitter gears heavily towards the 14-18 and 18-35 demographics- if you're selling gardening supplies, Twitter's a pretty piss poor place to go to.) But that's
all it is. Someone described Twitter as a "money making machine", which is absolutely hilarious- the problem the folks who are running Twitter right now are having is that they can't figure out how to monetize their very popular product, without putting ads all over the site.
As far as making money goes, Facebook is so far ahead of Twitter it isn't even close. The very first thing I'd do with a client new to internet advertising, before even making them a web page, would be to make a Facebook fan site. Facebook's targeted advertising algorithms are second to none, and they have by far the richest, largest, most specific user database online. The reason why I'd do this first is because of "the Facebook bump", the instant increase in business as a result of the increased exposure from a
properly executed fan page. This would help later when I'd have to explain to them that Twitter sounds cool, but was pointless for their particular business and a waste of energy compared to other forms of advertising. (Running a Twitter for a business consists of a LOT more than simply posting a couple of days, unless you're Dixie Carter.)
Twitter's good if you want to know what the broad 14-35 public, with slightly more women than men, is talking about.
And I reiterate again that this has its uses, because if I don't drive this point home people will accuse me of trashing Twitter wholesale. But when it comes to using Twitter to drive business, you aren't going to make much actual money from a Twitter handle.
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