Geoff Peters from geoffmobile.com gives his third Toastmasters speech in the Vancouver SAP Best Run Toastmasters Club.
Geoff’s speech is called “An Introduction to Twitter” and covers:
Intro:
-Heard about website: Twitter? How many use twitter?
-Is it the next big thing?
1. Twitter Stats
Company:
made $45 million last year, has an estimated value of $10 billion
Users:
100 million active users (login once per month)
but 40% only read
Half log in every day
55% of them use mobile devices.
Age 26 to 34
2. What does twitter do?
-Feed of short messages, 140 characters or less
-Everyone can follow other people
-You can have followers
-Post a tweet, your followers will receive it on their home page feed
3. Why should I join?
Keeping up to date:
-Rapid news about world events
-Celebrities
-Staying in touch with friends
Getting Involved:
-Promote your own ideas / blog / videos / brand
20% of tweets contained references to some kind of company or brand
-Build audience of followers, gain influence in community
Conclusion
– Twitter is useful for many reasons
– Rapidly growing
– News can spread around the world in seconds
– Improves democracy, and transparency, can cause revolution (Arab Spring in Middle East).
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