{"id":4938,"date":"2009-10-23T05:52:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T05:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/?p=4938"},"modified":"2009-10-23T05:52:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T05:52:39","slug":"why-twitter-is-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/why-twitter-is-here-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Twitter is here to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter is becoming part of the fabric of search<\/h4>\n

Deals announced in the past couple of days will soon see status updates\/ tweets added to the search results of both Microsoft\u2019s Bing<\/a> and Google search<\/a> result pages (SERP). The sheer volume of information being entered in to twitter every minute has long been eyed up by the likes of Microsoft and Google as it offers them \u2018real time\u2019 search through topic trends, an area that even Google has publicly admitted it is lagging behind. This deal with twitter will give them access to instant and constantly evolving information their spiders could never hope to compete with, and it gives twitter its first major source of revenue!<\/p>\n

It has its own eco-system<\/h4>\n

An entire eco-system has sprung up using the twitter platform such as twitter alerts, tweet scheduling, back tweet analysis, polls, group tweets, pictures, backgrounds, advertising… the list goes on. The more developers that come on board to create new tools and applications based upon Twitter\u2019s platform the more likely people are going to find a use for it.<\/p>\n

The sheer size of its user base<\/h4>\n

When it comes down to it, the number of people who use Twitter is massive! Although growth has started to slow down, it still pulls in close to 25 million unique visitors from the USA alone, as shown by compete.com\u2019s unique visitor statistics.<\/p>\n

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Should you be on Twitter?<\/h4>\n

A lot of webmasters and business have jumped on board Twitter without really asking why? As with any form of marketing, be it newspapers, Email marketing, or paid search, Twitter is not suitable for everyone. But the reasons why you should not be on Twitter should be based upon those factors and not because you think it will have gone by 2010. It is important to understand Twitter is now firmly established as a major source of traffic for websites, a revenue generator for supporting businesses and is soon to become a vital source of data for the search engines so any question of whether it is simply a short term fad should be dismissed.<\/p>\n

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