Well continuing in our Communication Cost Cutting Series, I figured out that it was best to also use twitter as a solution too. Well social media does work at it’s best.
There are couple of ways you could achieve this. Twitter may act to work for you on a personal basis or on a public basis. It just works well. What I meant was if you would want to reach a small number of people at the same time or reach a large number of people at the same time, twitter works for you.
I’m not going to explain what is Twitter here but I’m again leading you into a different direction on communication cost cutting.
Imagine you have 200 people following you. And most of them are your friends. If you were a close friend I’m sure you would even be following me through a mobile phone or any other portable application which is available free today.
I now have an invitation to a birthday party of mine. But I’m not going to spend couple of bucks by inviting through phone calls or text-mesages. But I’m going to spend just 20 cents or for free if I’m on an online application by simply sending a text message to my twitter account. Now 200 people who followed me have got the same invitation.
You could do the same through E-Mails but its common for people, mostly in Asia to be more glued to their mobile phones rather than a portable PC or a desktop machine.
What if I would like to use it for a personal amount? Have friends overseas?
The cost sending a text message from your mobile phone to your twitter account is much more cheaper compared to directly sending an international text. I would suggest to only do so at important moments.
Instead, get a mobile twitter application and get connected at a local Wifi hotspot and communicate instantly for free. It’s works just as quick as instant messaging does.
Well once again, this are just ideas on how social web tools such as twitter could really cut your cost especially if your contact numbers are at large figures. What’s your option on using twitter as a cost saver?
Do take some time to view the video below on What do people use Twitter for…
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Hi,
Never thought of it this way. I do use Twitter to get help with any technical issues though and I have found it has always worked well with someone replying and patiently answering all my queries. Guess you need to have all your friends on Twitter and added to your group as well as individual and separate groups in case you want to do group messaging since all messages will not be for everyone.