The following is a list of online tools that can be used in conjunction with the social networking medium Twitter, in order to promote your business.

Twitter uses the basic what are you doing now? information sharing forum, not unlike the one that Facebook uses, as the main heart of their website. The main focus of Twitter is to share what youre doing at that exact moment along with pictures and links etc.

Someday, when you ask your Twitter followers to recommend the most comfortable running shoe or the best digital camera, you might be able to go one step further and buy the product on the Twitter site.
E-commerce, including links to products and turnkey payment mechanisms, is a likely revenue stream for Twitter, said Todd Chaffee, a Twitter board observer and general partner at Institutional Venture Partners, which has invested in Twitter. That gives us one more hint about how Twitter will make money.
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If you find yourself yearning to view Twitter updates in a worksheet, then this is for you. Seriously, Excel can be a useful tool for viewing Tweets, allowing you to format them to your liking. You can add multiple Twitter feeds to your worksheet and have an inconspicuous viewer to read them.
1. Open Excel and create a new workbook.
2. Open your browser and go to the Twitter Profile page that you wish to follow the updates for (for example http://twitter.com/Varun_Dave).
3. On the Twitter page, go to the column on the [...]