What Influences my Tweets

These are the components that influence my tweets:

Demand - People are talking about you and want to be your friend.
Engagement - Try having more conversations and less one-sided broadcasting.
Velocity - Be original, creative and offer good content to the stream and your message will travel.
Activity - Try engaging with more people. Always remember that great content is rewarded.
Reach - The best way to build your audience is by listening and participating. There is no shortcut.




Already, Twitter influences stock and options trading.

"Since brokers have to save instant messages and e-mail, but thus far have no such mandate for tweets, well, you can guess that the far more discreet traffic is on Twitter," says Jon Najarian, of optionmonster.com. It was on Twitter that Najarian first heard last week's news that Matrixx Initiatives' (ticker: MTXX) Zicam nasal spray allegedly damaged people's sense of smell. "Guys started tweeting and the stock dropped from $19 to $13," he says. Matrixx has since pulled Zicam off the market. The stock was recently at about $5.55.

Facebook visits beat Google in between March 7th and March 13th, becoming the most visited website in the U.S. for the week

"Together Facebook.com and Google.com accounted for 14% of all US Internet visits last week."

This development represents a major win for Facebook. The ability to represent the social network as the number one site should count for a lot as corporate representatives talk to advertisers and investors, and could result in a direct boost in revenue.

Social networks are not going away

The concept of social networking is going nowhere. It's not even a new concept. Forums and email are pretty much social media for all intents and purposes and they have been around for over 20 years. Social networks have recently been blamed for $2.25 billion in lost productivity. I wonder how much employees simply talking to each other at the workplace has cost companies. That's not necessarily online, but it's still socializing.