Twitter a Useful Business Tool

The new rave in social networks in 2009 is the 14 million user diarist called Twitter. This social network has had nearly 99 million hits last month and has become a very useful tool for companies such as Starbucks, Whole Foods and Dell looking for new ways to market their growing companies. Twitter allows constant status reports from the cell phones and the computers through 140 different character “tweets”. This might seem a little obsessive making updates at breakfast or even reading constant status changes of some of the many celebrities that are using the social network. Though this social network has proven to be huge advantages for companies to get feedback fast and even has become a way for companies to find ways to gain buyers through peoples posts. Intuit, the maker of QuickBooks and TurboTax, monitors Twitter for people writing about Mint, a personal finance Web site that competes with its Quicken Online. Intuit then writes to them and offers its service. Twitter was originated in 2006 and it has grown dramatically since then people are finding new uses for it all over the country. Corey Menscher developed the Kickbee, an elastic band with vibration sensors that his pregnant wife wore to alert Twitter each time the baby kicked. Many believe it could be used as a security device and it is used for people to gain group interest easier because on twitter you do not have to develop the groups like Facebook they seemingly self assemble themselves. This is proving to be a useful tool. Do you think that this could make blogging obsolete?