SWOT Analysis of Twitter

Strengths

• Gets tons of publicity.
• Is a thing on its own (almost no competition in microblogging).
• It is simple but powerful.
• It is 100% social in an all-social web.
• It is free.
• Has a strong brand name already.
• Created the bluebird craze.
• Provides authentication for other applications (OAuth).
• Has developers creating hundreds of applications around its API.
• It’s definitely not evil (yet).
• Businesses like it a lot.
• It is real-time.
• Has no ads.
• It is searchable.
• It is totally RSS-enabled.
• It is the ultimate link discovering and sharing tool.

Weaknesses

• Needs more horsepower. It is down quite often.
• The API calls are limited. Hurts App growth.
• Unequal distribution of tweets. 90% of tweets are coming from the top 10% of the users.
• Has low retention rate. Only 40%.*

Opportunities

• It can become a dominant search engine.
• It is becoming the biggest social media marketing tool.
• Develop a Twitter Connect tool to make every site social.
• It may acquire some of the desktop clients or the url shortening services.
• It may become the dominant way for businesses to communicate with their customers.

Threats

• It got too much publicity in a short time. May get burned out.
• It is getting dangerously spammy.
• Has no solid revenue model.
• May have trouble with unauthorized accounts on behalf of celebrities.
• Paid twitter streams may hurt the brand image.
• Facebook may get even more twitty and compete face-to-face with Twitter in microblogging sphere.
• Friendfeed and identi.ca may grow and steal market share.
• Acquisition by a bigger player (Google) may disappoint early adopters and loyal users.

SWOT Analysis of Facebook

Strengths-It is a "must to have" for a large number of population
 --Currently the Market Leader
 --Has a wide audience
 --Has video chat
 --Corporate Business Partners
 --Free Communications
 --Global


--Become a default address book
 --Advertising impact will be an opportunistic approach in reaching target markets globally
 --Way of showing consumer behavior for businesses
 --A way of drawing people into stores by offering promotions etc. to them via the facebook page
 --Businesses can collect user data through polls and surveys
 --Buy/sell via Facebook marketplace
 --Constant change to page design
 --Liabilities regarding bugs and problems that users face when operating the website
 --Don't get real answers to your problems, have to figure out problems based on FAQs
 --Lack of ability to customize page
 --Flash animation banners are distracting and need to be positioned differently so it won't get in the way of the user
 
 Threats--New entrants into the industry
 --Privacy settings- leak millions of photos a year
 --Spamming
 --Users get bored easily when using applications and programs(one time usage)
 

Swot Analysis of Bloggging

Strengths:

• Blogging is for some people a recreational acrivity.       
• a corporate tool for communicating with customers or employees to share knowledge and expertise.
• promote a product
• establish a professional online identity

Weaknesses

1.                   Poor SEO skills.

2.                   Lack of traffic generation methods

3.                   Lost interest and focus  in blogging within a short period.

4.                   Out of new article ideas.

5.                   Lack of knowlegde in internet business.

Opportunities

1.                   Make  money online from home.

2.                   Selling own products through a blog.

3.                   Turn whole blog into a book or ebook and sell all over the world.

4.                   Can blog anywhere and anytime.

Threats

1.                   Lack of time to blog

2.                   Highly competitive niche.

3.                   Unreliable host.

4.                   Duplicate content.

5.                   Spamming.

History of Basketball Video

This video is to show you about the history of basketball and how it originated.

Photo and links for more about the game of basketball

Photo:

Links:espn.go.com
         nba.com
         http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/?eref=sinav&sct=hp_nv_a

Basketball

Basketball is my favorite sport because it is fun and shows teamwork throughout the game. I got into the game of  basketball because of my dad.Every day after school, we played 1 on 1 at my house. At first, he would beat me and beat me... I kept practicing and practicing and suddenly, the game's scores were getting closer and closer until one day, I started beating him. The point of this story is to show that basketball can be played by anyone as long as you persevere and try your hardest

Your fellow baller,
Jarrett

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