Manik Gunawardana's cyber space

What is social media marketing? Social media marketing is a process of attracting people into your website through social media platforms. This is a type of word of mouth marketing where it encourage the visitors to attract more people by encouraging them to share content with the others. Why it is important? Social media is popular among almost everyone regardless of the demography. Today’s busy lifestyle further encourage people to use social media to interact with each other. Even the increasing use of smart mobiles and tablets further encourage people to engage with social media. Most of these smart devices now come to the customer with social media in build inside the devise. There is a community building up even without us noticing. More the social media is getting close to people, more the businesses can reach people. Even Google analytics now gives you a report on how many social media referrals you get to your website. So the real question is not “why it’s imp...

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 bytes in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can send and receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS (receive only), or through applications such as Tweetie, Twitterrific, Twitterfon, TweetDeck and Feedalizr. The service is free to use over the web, but using SMS may incur phone services provider fees. As of March 2009, Twitter has received extensive visibility and popularity worldwide. Twitter is often described as the 'SMS of Internet' in that the site provides the back-end functionality (via its APIs) to other desktop and web-based applications to send and receive short text messages often ...