This is my second blog on Twitter, but after reading a interesting article about Twitter in BusinessWeek magazine earlier this week, it made me think about Twitter again. The Article soke about how project teams in companies are now being asked to deliver real time status updates to one another using Twitter. Therefore I took it upon myself to further look how people around the world are using Twitter.The biggest users are Market researchers who are using Twitter to try and identify consumer trends in real time. I also came across a couple of interesting folks who use it and I thought it would be interesting to share:
In the U.S. the Los Angeles Fire Department uses it to communicate real time fires and accidents to local citizens. (The LAFD News & Information blog can be found at: lafd.blogspot.com)
In the UK, the government has signed up to Twitter and uses the site to send out updates on the Prime Minister’s activities.
BusinessWeek, also reported that Dell claimed to have boosted sales through searching for mentions of its business on Twitter and jumping into the conversations. They state that they boosted sales by $500,000 in recent months! Now that’s not a small increase of sales! Are we under estimating the power of Twitter?
