Tweet to compete (journal article)
by Jason Meserve
from Information Age, April-May 2009, pp. 24-26
"If you still think Facebook is for twentysomethings clinging to their uni years and Twitter is for people with too much time on their hands announcing what they had for breakfast, think again. Social networks like Facebook (150 million users), Twitter (4.4 million users) and LinkedIn (34 million users) are some of the fastest growing sites on the Internet and they're not being used for aimless chitchat or sharing the latest gossip. We're talking busy ICT professionals using social networks for serious ICT business – everything from customer service to marketing a product to marketing themselves to keeping up with industry news to getting fast answers to a technical question."