What's with major enterprises using Twitter and/or other social media to draw in more customers?

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With social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace (just to name a few) make endless possibilities in connecting and communicating with one another.

Personal profiles, real-time status updates,emoticons, and advertisements galore-social media is a sure thing. These new ways of online communication have rooted themselves deeply into our culture and is a major influence in our way of living and communicating.

Everyone is doing it...tweeting. Twitter was originally created as another alternative to texting/instant messaging through a computer or cell phone. The users messages or "tweets" seem almost compulsive with the constant ,real-time updating of significant as well as insignificant happenings everyday.

But recently, Twitter has been important in worldly issues and legal issues. Twitters tweeted the during the tumultuous times during

Iranian elections this past June. Also Twittering is making history as the Federal Court System's considering its usage during the deliberations of live court cases. It seems the preconceived notion of Twitter being 'just a fad' surely isn't true. Twitter along with other social media are huge factor in the success and PR of major enterprises.


Major businesses are all tangled up in this social networking phenomena. Social media such as Facebook and Twitter are not just for the public but are used as direct communication channel for major enterprises to connect with the public.These social media are accessible to most with a computer;effective with concise, real-time information updates; and (best of all) cheap PR for these enterprises.

Recently the social media Linkdeln has reached it's 50 millionth subscriber. Facebook has over 300 million users, Twitter with 32.1 million, and Myspace has roughly 22 million registered users. Consequently, with these large numbers and the ever growing world population at 6,793,605,601 people today-a major enterprise would be crazy not to jump on to the social media bandwagon!

But like anything-we must be careful and skeptic viewers of these social media. For instance, Myspace was recently purchased by powerful billionaire Rupert Murdoch's and Corp. Are the wonderful communication possibilities provided by social media on the verge of being misconstrued and censored?! Only time will tell, so keep on tweeting and chatting fellow tweeters, myspacers, and facebookers.