It seems, according to this Professor Chong Oh (yep, cool last name-. 'What is your last name, sir?' 'Oh.' 'What?' 'Not What, Oh.' 'Could you spell that for me please?' 'O H.' 'I know how to spell oh, sir, now what is your last name?' 'What?' 'Oh.' (could be confusing), Twitter is actually good for the economy and a source of free advertising. (Kinda like what I do here, occasionally, only to a much MUCH MUCHLY smaller audience.)
Anyway, apparently Twitterer's opinions can (and do) influence the quarter of a billion (globally) other Twitter netizens, especially for the film industry.
From the article:
"Social media represent an opportunity to reach an audience and establish relationships at a personal level that traditional advertising is not capable of achieving," he explains. "Incentives to encourage more interactions such as competition or tweets from the movie's cast members should go hand-in-hand with other advertisements to pump up word-of-mouth. He also suggests the same approach to social marketing might have a similar impact in other areas, such as music sales.'
Dunno what this says about us as a species, if anything. Guess it's kinda like chatter down at the waterhole (only there, I suppose, it is about where the best grass can be found, about neighborhood predators, who is mating with whom, etc....hmm, kinda sounds....never mind.)
Like is it how easily we can influence by being influenced by the media?
Anyway, everyone knows life is all about making money, right?
K, guess I must have just gotten up in a mood.
(Yeah, I actually read the entire article! Been doing that a lot lately.)
HERE is the article in case you, too, want to read it in it's entirety.)
Anyway, apparently Twitterer's opinions can (and do) influence the quarter of a billion (globally) other Twitter netizens, especially for the film industry.
From the article:
"Social media represent an opportunity to reach an audience and establish relationships at a personal level that traditional advertising is not capable of achieving," he explains. "Incentives to encourage more interactions such as competition or tweets from the movie's cast members should go hand-in-hand with other advertisements to pump up word-of-mouth. He also suggests the same approach to social marketing might have a similar impact in other areas, such as music sales.'
Dunno what this says about us as a species, if anything. Guess it's kinda like chatter down at the waterhole (only there, I suppose, it is about where the best grass can be found, about neighborhood predators, who is mating with whom, etc....hmm, kinda sounds....never mind.)
Like is it how easily we can influence by being influenced by the media?
Anyway, everyone knows life is all about making money, right?
K, guess I must have just gotten up in a mood.
(Yeah, I actually read the entire article! Been doing that a lot lately.)
HERE is the article in case you, too, want to read it in it's entirety.)