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(“ Intro to Twitter for Business,” 2016). o Connect with potential customers, brand advocates, and influencers: A business can follow and interact with people outside of its personal network. It is a great opportunity for joining and starting discussions with influencers and industry experts and to raise the profile of the business(“ Intro to Twitter for Business,” 2016)
Having a business profile provides a range of activity options for the business. Here are six of the most common activity options(“ Intro to Twitter for Business,” 2016): + Tweet: A business can tweet( post) a message on Twitter that contains text, photos, links and videos. It can be about its products, customers, employees, industry, or in general whatever area of interest the business would want to engage with. + Reply: Replying to other people’ s tweets is a way to show that the business is listening to customer / follower. It shows that the business care and is willing to provide helpful answers. + Retweet: A retweet means that a business can share a tweet from someone else with its own followers. It is a good way of engaging followers as well as showing that the business is listening to its followers, influencers or industry experts. + Like: To like someone’ s tweet is a simple way to acknowledge the person. It can also be useful to use as a bookmarking tool if the business would like to easily find that particular tweet again. + Hashtag: A hashtag is any word or phrase without spaces, beginning with the symbol: #. People use this hashtag to categorise and organise conversations and contents and that way make it easier to find the related content to a given topic. If a user clicks on a hashtag he or she is sent directly to the search results for that term. Hashtags have become very popular not only on Twitter but on all social media platforms. + Mention: Bring a tweet to another person’ s attention by including this person’ s or business’ username in a message. It can be used to ask someone a question, to thank them, or to simply highlight a specific content / tweet that might be interesting to them. indicative costs
Creating a Twitter account is free and so is participating in the normal activities as tweeting, retweeting, replying etc. As long as the content shared / tweeted from the business profile is“ organic”, it is free of charge.
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