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The Twitter community continues to grow at a very rapid pace. In this post I wanted to take a look at some of the local downtown businesses and organizations that are using Twitter to get their message out. Here’s a sample of those.
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I think that over past year Des Moines, like the rest of the world, has discovered how useful and fun Twitter can be in getting your message out. Twitter was one of the most talked about startups over the past year. According to recent reports Twitter grew in user base an 752% in 2008, and for the last month of 2009 showed a total of 4.43 million unique visitors in December.
As Twitter continues to gain in popularity, those of us already on Twitter might find ourselves in a position where we have to explain Twitter to a non-techie type person, and you know who those people are. I always first turn to Wikipedia, which says that Twitter is a “free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send updates (otherwise known as “tweets”) which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.”
Say what? You know your non-techie friends won’t understand that definition, so here’s another way to put it: Twitter is a free online tool that allows you to send messages to all of your friends all at the same time. Your Twitter friends (also known as followers) receive an alert each time you send a new message either on their mobile phones and/or on their computers.
Here’ a great video that helps to explain what Twitter is all about.
So you want to know who’s following who in Des Moines, here are the top five Twitter Users and the number of followers they had at post time:
