These are the slides from my speech on the basics of what Twitter is and how individuals and businesses are using it.

1. Understanding Twitter
by justin coleman

2. What is it?

3. What is it?
• Twitter is a free social networking and
micro-blogging service that allows users
to send updates via SMS, instant
messaging, email, to the Twitter website,
or any one of the multitude of Twitter
applications now available.
from wikipedia

4. History
• Created in 2006
• Launched at SXSWi in Austin, Tx in 2007
• Founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and
Evan Williams

5. Misconceptions
• “140 characters isn’t enough to get my
message across!”
• “Twitter copied the Facebook redesign.”
• “Twitter isn’t going to catch on...it’s just a
stupid idea.”

6. How Can You Use
Twitter?

7. For Entertainment

8. Stephen Fry stuck on an elevator with friends from
Twitter.
Shaq with one of his followers in a diner.

9. For Breaking News

10. For Socializing

11. How Are Businesses
Using Twitter?

12. Listening

13. Customer Interaction

14. Spreading Information

15. So, Twitter Is...
• ...a realtime communication network that
didn’t copy Facebook nor is it just a fad.
• ...whatever you need it be.
• ...valuable to businesses because it provides
them with realtime feedback and connects
them with customers.

16. ‘‘
Twitter provides a new
way of messaging. It’s
‘‘
the messaging service
we didn’t know we
needed until we had it.
Biz Stone - Twitter Co-Founder