PRWeb Announces News Feature to Help Customers Share their News on Twitter
Adding
TweetIt to the stable of available social media capabilities, the new
offering allows users to simultaneously distribute their news through
PRWeb's online distribution service and Twitter.
Lanham, MD (Vocus/PRWEB) -- PRWeb, the leading online news distribution service,
today announced TweetIt, a new service that allows customers to
automatically share their news release through Twitter at the same time
it is distributed through PRWeb. The new feature is the latest addition
to the broad array of social media functionality
currently available within PRWeb and allows users to leverage the
latest social messaging technology to communicate their message to an
even larger audience.
"PRWeb has consistently impressed me with their innovation, often
copied by others, in making their product more effective for customers.
Not only did PRWeb pioneer the whole press release optimization
industry, but they've been a champion of social web friendly
communications with features like TweetIt that allows cross posting of
press releases to Twitter," said Lee Odden, CEO, TopRank Online
Marketing. "Whether you use PRWeb for the SEO and social media friendly
features or the distribution and reporting, it's a real advantage
builder."
"As the leading online news distribution service, PRWeb has
attracted some of the most technologically-savvy customers in the
industry who are looking for innovative ways to communicate their news
to the world," said Bill Wagner, chief marketing officer of Vocus, Inc.
"Recognizing the growing popularity and importance of social media
platforms, such as Digg, Twitter and YouTube, TweetIt adds to a stable
of features that helps our customers integrate social media into their
communications strategy with one easy step."
To share their news through Twitter, PRWeb customers can now include
their tweet when uploading their news release. PRWeb will automatically
post the tweet, including a link to the online release, to their
Twitter account when the news release is posted. The new service is
available immediately at the social media visibility package and above.
PRWeb is the world's leading online newswire and a pioneer in
direct-to-consumer distribution, search engine optimized press releases
and multimedia news. News releases are distributed through search
engines, RSS feeds and directly to tens of thousands of journalists and
editors through e-mail. Through partnerships with prominent news
outlets like the Associated Press, Yahoo! News and AOL, PRWeb news
releases are available to an online audience of more than 70 million
unique visitors in the United States alone.
About PRWeb
PRWeb is recognized as a leading online news and press release
distribution service worldwide. Since 1997, PRWeb has been changing the
way businesses, marketing departments and public relations firms think
about press releases. PRWeb was the first company to develop a
distribution strategy around direct-to-consumer communication and to
build and offer a search engine optimized platform for press release
distribution. PRWeb, located in Ferndale, WA, is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Vocus, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand public
relations management software. For more information please visit www.prweb.com.
About Vocus, Inc.
Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VOCS) is a leading provider of on-demand software for public relations
management. Our web-based software suite helps organizations of all
sizes to fundamentally change the way they communicate with both the
media and the public, optimizing their public relations and increasing
their ability to measure its impact. Our on-demand software addresses
the critical functions of public relations including media relations,
news distribution and news monitoring. We deliver our solutions over
the Internet using a secure, scalable application and system
architecture, which allows our customers to eliminate expensive
up-front hardware and software costs and to quickly deploy and adopt
our on-demand software. Vocus is used by more than 3,100 organizations
worldwide and is available in five languages. Vocus is based in Lanham,
MD with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more
information please visit www.vocus.com or call 800.345.5572.
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