--- title: why your brand should care about twitter description: With more than 250 million active users, Twitter is the consumer-facing social platform. And more & more businesses are using it. Get started today. image: https://success.tmcdigitalmedia.com/hs-fs/file-2176667871-png/blog-files/2014_2_25-twitter-stat-300x260.png --- [Branding](https://success.tmcdigitalmedia.com/blog/topic/branding) [Social Media](https://success.tmcdigitalmedia.com/blog/topic/social-media) [Marketing](https://success.tmcdigitalmedia.com/blog/topic/marketing) # why your brand should care about twitter [![Erik MacPherson](https://success.tmcdigitalmedia.com/hs-fs/hubfs/TMC%20Headshots/Erik%20Headshot%202023.png?width=40&height=40&name=Erik%20Headshot%202023.png)](https://success.tmcdigitalmedia.com/blog/author/erik-macpherson) by [Erik MacPherson](https://success.tmcdigitalmedia.com/blog/author/erik-macpherson) Feb 26, 2014 10:39:00 AM ##### Listen To This Blog Post # Why Your Brand Should Care About Twitter ## With more than 250 million active users, Twitter is the essential, real-time, consumer-facing social platform. And more and more businesses are using it every day to engage customers. Twitter isn't going away. The service will celebrate its eighth birthday on March 21, and even though it doesn't come close to Facebook's 1 billion users, many forecasters expect Twitter to have the greater long term potential. [![Why you should care about Twitter](https://success.tmcdigitalmedia.com/hs-fs/file-2176667871-png/blog-files/2014_2_25-twitter-stat-300x260.png?width=300&height=260&name=2014_2_25-twitter-stat-300x260.png)](https://success.tmcdigitalmedia.com/hs-fs/file-2176667871-png/blog-files/2014_2_25-twitter-stat-300x260.png)So why should your company and brands care about Twitter? 1) LEADS – Your current and future clients are on Twitter. 2) Your partners are communicating and engaging on it already. 3) It’s the fastest way to spread news. Whether it’s about a specific product or a personnel change, companies take to Twitter to post their news – and followers take to Twitter to read relative and valuable headlines with the option to click on a link for more information. 4) Search and track trends using Hashtags. 5) Company communication – Twitter is the quickest way to reach out to a particular company or brand and receive an immediate response. 6) It’s also the quickest way to promote your own content, press releases, blog posts, and landing pages, ultimately driving folks to your website. ![Perlick Twitter Handle ](https://success.tmcdigitalmedia.com/hs-fs/file-2176667901-png/blog-files/2014_2_25-perlick-twitter-sample-300x191.png?width=300&height=191&name=2014_2_25-perlick-twitter-sample-300x191.png) 7) Monitor and thank current sales opportunities – delight your customers, partners, and manufacturers. 8) 140 Characters – We are human. We have short attention spans. You only have 140 characters to say what you want. 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