Launch in July 2006 to United-States, Twitter is a phenomenon of micro blog allowing the
broadcasting of short message – one hundred and forty characters to maximum. The tweets represent a text include one or two sentences. The principle: narrate with few words the news in real time, with the possibility to limit the
broadcasting to a friend circle.
Confidentiality guarantee! Many user represent between 10 and 15 millions peoples. In the category of community sites, Twitter is the Website who has known the strongest growth during last months, but there are again to convince the French blogs.
If Twitter meets a huge success to United-States, it looks like according to a poll with French people that don’t passionate by it. Only twenty eight per cent of French people aren’t give their opinion on Twitter and seven per cent think that it’s a means quick for do circulate the news. For eighteen per cent of French people, it’s a social network, not more and only three per cent think that they allow staying near of his friends.
You live the news in real time, because like you can see in the news on CNN and BBC channel, the small sentence are written below the images watched. It’s often the flash news linked with the Website of the channel.
Many famous French person, like Jack Lang, Nathalie Kosciusko Morizet, Laurent Wauquier, Daniel Cohn-Bendit are adepts of Twitter, even the president of United Stated Barack Obama has use Twitter for his presidential campaign. The pop artist use equally Twitter for deny a rumour who has being launched by tabloids. In the business field, Twitter can be a tool very efficient and low cost for the companies: promote these services, create an event or contact his customers. Twitter is also a tool of supervise these rivals. Ideal to follow the market tendency.