Twitter business applications (courtesy : The Official Twitter Blog)
December 15, 2009
Twitter has been used in business for some time now. Twitter has not been at all oblivion to the fact, in fact behind the back doors they are always working at something that would add value to our usage of Twitter. Here is the new application they are working on to help businesses interact in a better way with people. Following is the twitter’s official version is how it is carrying on the work on this feature.
My name is Anamitra and I work in the product team at Twitter. For some time now, businesses of all sizes have been using Twitter to deepen their engagement with customers. The simple features that Twitter has offered to all users has worked for business users as well. As Twitter becomes more integral to businesses, they will need more business specific features from Twitter – both on the web and API. We have been working on some of these features and are ready to start a limited beta test of one that’s further along in development.
The feature we are beta testing is called ‘Contributors’ – it enables users to engage in more authentic conversations with businesses by allowing those organizations to manage multiple contributors to their account. The feature appends the contributor’s username to the tweet byline, making the business to consumer communication more personal; e.g. if @Twitter invites @Biz to tweet on its behalf, then a tweet from @Twitter would include @Biz in the byline so that users know more about the real people behind organizations.
Its functionality will be fully supported by the API and will enhance the many Twitter business apps, such as CoTweet and HootSuite.
It’s Not Ready For Prime Time
This feature is one of several in development; some of them will be visible to regular users and some of them will not. Our goal at this time is to get basic feedback from business users and ecosystem partners. The beta will be released to a limited subset of folks for some time so that we can get an idea of how the features work from a system perspective. After we kick the tires a bit, we’ll do a full launch to all business users and ecosystem partners. Stay tuned!
